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January 1991
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Time‐Scale Invariance in Transport and Relaxation
Physics Today 44 (1), 26–34 (1991);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881289
Important, and often puzzling, features of transport and relaxation in disordered systems can be attributed to the long‐tailed distributions of the times between events that limit the motion.
Ebert Spectrometer Reflections
Physics Today 44 (1), 37–43 (1991);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881290
Hermann Ebert's 19th‐century spectrometer was reinvented and thus revived from undeserved obscurity to pioneer the study of planetary atmospheres in the age of space flight. Its history is a comedy of errors.
Introducing the Physics of Technology into the High School Curriculum
Physics Today 44 (1), 46–50 (1991);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881291
Educators at Rutgers University, together with physicists at Bell Labs and Bellcore, have developed teaching modules around technologies familiar from everyday life.
