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December 1977
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Physics of textiles
Physics Today 30 (12), 23–30 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037824
The availability of a wide choice of polymeric fibers has stimulated great interest in their physical properties and in the principles involved in their manufacture into yarns and fabrics.
Computerized tomography: taking sectional x rays
Physics Today 30 (12), 32–41 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037825
A source and detector moving around the patient yield data that, processed by a computer, make visible a two‐dimensional slice of the living human body—at 2‐millimeter resolution.
Critical‐point universality and fluids
Physics Today 30 (12), 42–51 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037826
Near a critical point the behavior of widely diverse systems simplifies to one of a few universal patterns—but fluids for years resisted being fit into the slot that theory had prepared for them.
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The no-cloning theorem
William K. Wootters; Wojciech H. Zurek
Dense crowds follow their own rules
Johanna L. Miller
Focus on software, data acquisition, and instrumentation
Andreas Mandelis