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August 1978
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Soviet boycott by US physicists over Orlov
Physics Today 31 (8), 11 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995134
Search and Discovery
Articles
The AIP in 1977
Physics Today 31 (8), 23–30 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995140
The Institute's Annual Report shows emphasis on new copyright policies, as well as on increasing use of computers for composition and accounting and the purchase of a new building.
Research challenge: clean energy from coal
Physics Today 31 (8), 32–39 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995141
We must look to research to help us use energy from coal without ripping up the Earth and unduly polluting the atmosphere.
The transition to turbulence
Physics Today 31 (8), 41–49 (1978);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995142
Modern optical and computer techniques and new concepts in the theory of nonlinear systems are yielding insights into such hydrodynamic instabilities as Couette flow, vortex streets and the Rayleigh–Bénard instability.
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Editorial
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