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January 1977
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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APS–AAPT meet in Chicago
Physics Today 30 (1), 23–26 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037365
Sessions on SQUID'S and applications of physics in agriculture, such as microwave transmitters used for animal feeding and indentification, will be featured at the joint meeting.
Geothermal energy development
Physics Today 30 (1), 36–45 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037366
Research needed to hasten the use of the little‐tapped but extensive heat energy of the Earth includes devising sensors to operate in the hot, corrosive underground environment and improving surface geophysical measurements.
Dynamic failure in solids
Physics Today 30 (1), 46–55 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037367
Interrelating microscopic and continuum approaches helps explain the mechanisms by which materials fracture: the growth and coalescence of microvoids, microcracks and shear instabilities.
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