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Bugaboos. Very soon Lambe and Fowler are forced to grapple with the bugaboos of modern physics-relativity and quantum mechanics-which are often considered too difficult for students who have not had long training in mathematics. Lambe and Fowler believe that although relativity and quantum mechanics may seem "against common sense," they are really the physical facts of life, and had better be brought in quickly. Relativity is lightly touched on in the third week of the course. The relativistic principle that the mass of a body increases with its speed is used to explain why certain particles, e.g., neutrinos...
Unconfirmed reports late last night stated that Owen Chamberlin, visiting lecturer in Physics, may receive this year's Nobel Prize for his work in quantum mechanics. Chamberlin, currently teaching Physics 283, High Energy Physics, is on leave as a professor of Physics at University of California...
Space flight is a quantum jump in technology. Behind its thunderous engines and jewel-like instruments lie thousands of jobs of research, each calling for patient, often frustrating experiments. Major U.S. center for this sort of basic work is a quiet laboratory nestled against the San Gabriel Mountains on the outskirts of Pasadena. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory does not build giant rockets or their engines. It specializes in the long-range research that makes them possible. If and when U.S. spacemen match and outdo the Russians, J.P.L. will deserve a major slice of credit...
...becoming a madhouse,'' said one White House staffer-but the result was to let the warm personality of Dwight Eisenhower take wider and greater effect on his influential visitors. Persons also began sending Republican Senators lists of all available patronage posts -and party morale took a quantum leap...
...Have to Do It." It was so from the opening ceremonial march to the final gun. At Moscow last summer, Russian trackmen, who had been making quantum jumps in the sport, lost to the U.S. 126 to 109. They were determined to do better this year-just as the U.S. was determined to maintain its superiority. The clash produced a gutbuster...