Lists activities of the February 2-5, 1976, joint meeting of The American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in New York city. (CP)

Reveals the self-imposed censorship practiced by western scientists to keep sensitive information concerning nuclear fusion from Nazi Germany before and during World War II. (CP)

This book discusses how some of the topics taught in a conventional physics course have been used to solve interesting technical problems in industry, medicine, agriculture, transportation, and other areas of society. The topics include heat, optics, magnetism and electricity, nuclear physics, and sound. (MLH)

This review is one of a series of assessments and reviews prepared in the public interest by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The purpose of this review is to outline the potential achievements of solar system exploration and suggest a course of action which will maximize the rewards to mankind. A secondary purpose is…

Reports on technological advancements in the fields of solar collectors, thermal storage systems, and solar heating and cooling systems. Diagrams aid in the understanding of the thermodynamics of the systems. (CP)

A brief summary. Topics include: solid crystals, nonlinear physics, collective phenomena, heavy-ion physics, astrophysics, and particle physics. (BB)

A Hamiltonian for the time-dependent damped and forced harmonic oscillator is derived. A simple time-dependent linear canonical transformation transforms the Hamiltonian to one whose solution is readily obtained. The wave function for the corresponding quantum mechanical problem is given. (Author/GA)

Discusses the nature of Laplace transform techniques and explains an alternative to them: the Widder's real inversion. To illustrate the power of this new technique, it is applied to a difficult inversion: the problem of Landau damping. (GA)

Describes an experiment to demonstrate the influence of a magnetic field on the behavior of a single Langmuir probe. The experiment introduces the student to magnetically supported plasma and particle behavior in a magnetic field. (GA)

This article shows that the centrifugal force in a rotating reference frame possesses the property that the brachistochrone and tautochrone are identical. In this system the force is repulsive and proportional to the distance from the force center. (Author/BB)

Explains how the spherical pendulum could be used to observe nonreentrant orbits, and shows, using theoretical analysis, that for small displacements the elliptical orbit will precess at a rate proportional to its area. (GA)

Describes an inexpensive double-beam laser photometry experiment to determine the molar heat of sublimation of I-2. The experiment employs common laboratory materials and components and gives results with a two percent to three percent accuracy. (Author/GA)

Geophysical activity increased in 1978, especially seismic gas and oil exploration in the United States and its waters. (BB)

Reviews current research being conducted to harness the energy of the sun. (SL)