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Reports on Progress in Physics

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THIS the latest annual volume of progress reports sponsored by the Physical Society, is larger than any of its predecessors, and the editors' nets have been spread even more widely than heretofore. There are nineteen separate chapters, and of these general physics is divided into four sections (R. C. Brown on surface tension and Brownian motion, Cox on elasticity, and Good-eve on the viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids), and optics and spectroscopy have five sections each, specially edited by L. C. Martin and W. Jevons respectively. Atomic physics is represented by two sections, single scattering of elementary particles (Champion) and cosmic rays (Heitler). Skinner contributes a long article on the soft X-ray spectroscopy of the solid state, which might also be classified as atomic physics.

Reports on Progress in Physics

Vol. 5. General Editor: Allan Ferguson. Pp. v + 445. (London: Physical Society, 1939.) 20s. net.

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Reports on Progress in Physics. Nature 143, 833–834 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143833a0

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