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October 1981
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Guest Comment
Letters
Relativity and field theory
Physics Today 34 (10), 107–109 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914308
Search and Discovery
Articles
Electron‐acoustic microscopy
Physics Today 34 (10), 27–32 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914330
The thermal and elastic properties of solids are being mapped with high resolution by exposing specimens to chopped electron beams and recording sounds produced by the resulting periodic thermal expansion.
Early days in cosmic rays
Physics Today 34 (10), 34–41 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914331
Momories of four of physics in the Florentine hills at Arcetri a half century ago that did much to shape the future of cosmic ray research.
Climate models
Physics Today 34 (10), 44–51 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914332
To predict future states of the atmosphere one must evaluate the complicated interactions between air, sea, ice, land and powerful external forces.
State and Society
Physics Community
Meetings
Books
Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method
Physics Today 34 (10), 94–95 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914345
Giant Resonance Phenomena in Intermediate‐Energy Nuclear Reactions
Physics Today 34 (10), 97–99 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914347
We Hear That
James L. White wins 1981 Bingham Medal
Physics Today 34 (10), 114–115 (1981);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2914313
Obituaries
APS News
New Products
Editorial
A health sensor powered by sweat
Alex Lopatka
Origami-inspired robot folds into more than 1000 shapes
Jennifer Sieben
Careers by the numbers
Richard J. Fitzgerald