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March 1980
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Statistical mechanics of simple fluids: beyond van der Waals
Physics Today 33 (3), 24–30 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913994
Equilibrium properties of dense fluids, notoriously difficult to treat theoretically, can now be understood by reference to model systems, such as a fluid of “hard spheres,” and to calculations on high‐speed computers.
Physics Today in China
Physics Today 33 (3), 32–39 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913995
As China rebuilds, it shows signs of remarkable progress in such fields as lasers and large‐scale integrated circuits.
Poincaré and cosmic evolution
Physics Today 33 (3), 42–49 (1980);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913996
Among his other, better known, studies this nineteenth‐century “mathematical naturalist” enquired into the origin and stability of the solar system, the fate of the universe and the shapes of rotating fluid masses.
