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March 1967

Volume 20, Issue 3

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Introductory physics education

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Pre‐college: The PSSC course

Uri Haber‐Schaim
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The PSSC Course

Pre-college: Harvard Project Physics

Gerald Holton
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Pre-college: Engineering concepts

Edward E. David, Jr and John G. Truxal
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Pre-College: The Nuffield project

Eric M. Rogers
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College: Teaching from Feynman

Howard P. Stabler
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At the college level considerable emphasis has been placed on professional preparation. The Feynman lectures, the Berkeley and MIT courses all have this orientation. Nevertheless, serious attempts are being made to provide nonscientists with a modern, meaningful introduction to physical science by such projects as Physical Science for Nonscience Students and Science Courses for Baccalaureate Education. Not everyone is happy with the changes in physics education, but there is little disagreement that coordination and assistance of the sort the Commission on College Physics can offer is very valuable.

College: The Berkeley course

A. Carl Helmholz
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College: The new MIT course

Robert I. Hulsizer
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College: Baccalaureate science

V. Lawrence Parsegian
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College: Physical science for nonscientists

PSNS staff
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College: Commission on college physics

John M. Fowler
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College: Too far, too fast?

Mark W. Zemansky
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Enrollment trends

Susanne D. Ellis
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Statistics show that enrollments of physics majors, measured as fractions of registered students, are dropping. Some compensation is available in declining dropout rates. But many causes of the dropouts remain, and teachers suggest several remedies to cure them.
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Purpose of the master's degree

G. W. Brindley
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High‐school learning

Vance L. Huntsinger and Alfred A. Kraus, Jr
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Where to find values

Richard H. Bube
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More about longevity

Gerald Feinberg
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CERN Muon Ring Finds g Agrees with Electrodynamics

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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Los Alamos Scyllac—A Better Theta Pinch

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CP‐Violation Experiments: Superweak Theory is Out

Gloria B. Lubkin
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X‐Ray Stars Identified As Blue Stellar Objects

Dietrick E. Thomsen
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Daresbury Turns on its Electron Synchrotron

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New X‐Ray Telescope is Sensitive, Light and Cheap

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…also of Interest: Space and Accelerators

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Nuclides Far Off Beta Stability Line

Goran Andersson and Richard W. Fink
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Helsinki Conference: Low Temperature Calorimetry

O. V. Lounasmaa
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The Education of a Physicist

Sanborn C. Brown, Editor, Norman Clarke, Editor, and Robert L. Weber, Reviewer
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The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics

Max Jammer and Eugen Merzbacher, Reviewer
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Physics of Nuclear Kinetics

G. Robert Keepin and Alvin M. Weinberg, Reviewer
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Les Theories Unitaires de L'Electromagnetisme et de la Gravitation

Marie‐Antoinette Tonnelat and R. B. Lindsay, Reviewer
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The Quintessence of Irving Langmuir

Albert Rosenfeld and R. B. Lindsay, Reviewer
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The Nobel Gases

Isaac Asimov and Charles F. Eck, Reviewer
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About Vectors

Banesh Hoffmann and Peter L. Balise, Reviewer
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Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory

John R. Lamarsh and George I. Bell, Reviewer
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Polymorphism and Polytypism in Crystals

Ajit Ram Verma, P. Krishna, and H. M. Otte, Reviewer
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Coulomb Excitation

L. C. Biedenharn, P. J. Brussard, and E. Guth, Reviewer
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Experiments in Modern Physics

Adrian C. Melissinos and Fay Ajzenberg‐Selove, Reviewer
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Generalized Hypergeometric Functions

Lucy Joan Slater and Werner C. Rheinboldt, Reviewer
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Lehrbuch der Experimentalphysik

F. Matossi and L. Marton, Reviewer
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Seven States of Matter

M. Gottlieb, M. Garbuny, W. Emmerich, and J. E. Romain, Reviewer
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New Books

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We Hear That

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Edward M. Purcell, 1967 Oersted Medallist

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Townes, Fletcher and Mason Will Receive IEEE Awards

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Peter A. Franken Given This Years' APS Prize

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1967 Buckley Solid‐State Prize Goes to Drickamer

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Gibbs and Di Marzio to Get High‐Polymer Physics Prize

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Branscomb, Jensen Get Stratton and Rosa Awards

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1967 Tom W. Bonner Prize Awarded to C. C. Lauritsen

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Robert J. Van de Graaff Dies; Was Noted Nuclear Physicist

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Fitz‐Hugh B. Marshall Dies; Was Westinghouse Physicist

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Boris Podolsky; Helped Formulate Paradox

Harry H. Denman
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A. Vasicek, Czechoslovak Thin‐Film Physicist

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Francis Webb Jr; STD Physicist

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Friedrich O. Ringleb; Navy Aerodynamicist

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Ross Gunn, Was Advisor to NRL

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MURA Decides to Disband After 13 Years of Activity

Bernard Hodes
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Notre Dame Adds New Van de Graaff

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Rochester Cyclotron Again Active in Indian Research

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Atomic and Nuclear Award to Commemorate Giulio Racah

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Vienna, Georgia Launch Exchange Program in Theoretical Physics

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Journal Composition by Computer Planned by AIP

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New Journal to Comment On Nuclei and Particles

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Sigma Pi Sigma–Student Sections Merger Proposed

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APS Nuclear Division Approves New Bylaws and Elects Officers

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International Group to Study Physics Teaching

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AIP Forms Committee to Look For Increased Space

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Calendar

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What Happened to Mark Hopkins and the Log?

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr
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