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Physics Today Vol. 40, p. 36 (August 1987) Part 1(PDF) Part 2 (PDF)
Coauthor: Jack Evernden
Failure to account properly for geological and seismological differences between the US and Soviet test sites has led to overestimates of Soviet tests and to incorrect claims of Soviet cheating on the treaty limit of 150 kilotons.
Reviews of Scientific Instruments, Vol 48, p. 841 (1977)
The accelerator, magnetic shielding-equipotential grading system, and voltage divider chain of the University of Chicago 1-MV STEM are described. A dynamical analysis of the system is presented in addition to a discussion of the problem of “electron loading” encountered while conditioning the accelerator tube.
American Journal of Physics, Vol. 43, p. 266 (1975)
Coauthor: Charles Nissim-Sabat
We show that no argument that attempts to infer space-time curvature solely from the gravitational red shift can be valid.
Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 46, p. 3178 (1975)
The problem of obtaining a uniform magnetic field within a nondegenerate ellipsoid by the use of an appropriate surface current distribution is solved.
The tetrad formulation of general relativity allows a non-tensorial decomposition of the gravitational field into two components which have been thought to represent the permanent and inertial parts. It is shown here that this division does not hold for arbitrary motions in a flat space-time, and therefore cannot be expected to hold in more general spaces.
Aust. J. Phys. 27, 131 (1974)
Shows that the special theory of relativity may be applied to the problem of the rotating disk if one includes the Thomas precession.
Nature Physical Science 230, 197 (1971)