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September 2008

Volume 61, Issue 9

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Modeling the physics of storm surges

Donald T. Resio and Joannes J. Westerink
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Despite the potentially catastrophic consequences of storm surges, the physics of surge generation and propagation has historically been poorly understood, and many misconceptions about surges still exist.
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The gas centrifuge and nuclear weapons proliferation

Houston G. Wood, Alexander Glaser, and R. Scott Kemp
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Uranium enrichment by centrifugation is the basis for the quick and efficient production of nuclear fuel—or nuclear weapons.
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The Chinese nuclear tests, 1964–1996

Thomas C. Reed
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A combination of intellectual rigor, technical sophistication, hard work, and intelligence gathering brought China into the world's nuclear club in record‐shattering time.
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Sailing and the physics of lift

Evan Jones, Arne W. Fliflet, and Bryon D. Anderson
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Most pressurized elements aren't simple cubic

Pavel Karen, Dominik Legut, Martin Friák, and Mojmír Šob
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Alpher, Bethe, Gamow

Samuel L. Marateck
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TV could use real‐world physics

Charles F. Gallo
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Crystal quest

Brian J. Fitzpatrick
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Mixing science and theology

Eric J. Lerner and Robert B. Griffiths
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Correction

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The ground state of bottomonium has finally been found

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The first measured hyperfine splitting in the heaviest of all meson families reveals the spin dependence of the force between bottom quarks.

Calving icebergs may cause glacial earthquakes in Greenland

Mark Wilson
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Recent local measurements and numerical simulations constrain the possible mechanisms for glacial dynamics that occur on the time scale of minutes.

Shaped light waves can pass through opaque material

Johanna Miller
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A decades‐old theoretical prediction about random scattering has just received its first experimental confirmation.

Physics Update

Charles Day, R. Mark Wilson, and Stephen G. Benka
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Physics flourishes in Hong Kong

Charles Day
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In just two decades, scientific research in Hong Kong has been transformed from an underfunded pastime into a world‐class enterprise.

G8 nations commit to building a score of CO2 sequestration demonstration projects

David Kramer
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But Congress could block the Bush administration's plan to finance 10 commercial‐scale CO2 capture and storage projects at coal‐fired power plants.

Giant telescope teams seek funding

Toni Feder
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Neither of the huge telescopes spearheaded in the US is a sure bet, but project members say that for the country to remain internationally competitive in optical astronomy, both need to get built.

O'Riordan takes VP reins at AIP

Jermey N.A. Matthews
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Students go for gold at physics olympiad

Jermey N.A. Matthews
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US skips “Physics World Cup,” holds its own contest

Jermey N.A. Matthews
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New Notes

Toni Feder and Jermey N.A. Matthews
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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A 21st‐century vision for geophysical data management

Daniel N. Baker
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Boston hosts 2008 AVS symposium

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Among the Stars: The Life of Maria Mitchell and Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics

Margaret Moore Booker, Renée Bergland, and Andrea K. Dobson, Reviewer
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Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering

Yip‐Wah Chung and Sossina M. Haile, Reviewer
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James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles

Abigail Foerstner and Carl O. Bostrom, Reviewer
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Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators

Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson, and Caterina Biscari, Reviewer
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Decoherence and the Quantum‐to‐Classical Transition

Maximilian Schlosshauer and Eugen Merzbacher, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on magnetics and electromagnetism

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Edward Norton Lorenz

Tim Palmer
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Tennis physics, anyone?

Rodney Cross
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Earth's coupled interior

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