Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smog & Surge. Occasionally Caltech scientists and engineers come down to earth long enough to worry about such purely practical matters as smog, the effect of wave and surge on harbor installations, the first large-scale testing of hydraulic pumps, and, through their study of the laws of aerodynamics, the design of better airplanes. But the work of Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling is of a more rarefied order. The foremost pioneer in applying the quantum theory to the study of chemical bonds, he found that the "resonance" of the atom is the source of the forces that hold molecules together...
...sophomore physics, Andelin was asked to prove "that a central force field is conservative." "Show," asked junior physics, "that curl grad V = 0." In senior physics: "Expand the wave function...
...strategy and tactics were orthodox: there was no time for trickery. He would hit a 20-mile sector of the German line with successive waves of infantry, each wave 20 to 30 divisions strong. Sometimes the German gunners would run out of ammunition. When he had punched a hole in the line, Red army tanks with infantry riding on their backs would drive through, sweep around and encircle the enemy flanks. Sometimes Zhukov trapped as many as ten German divisions this way. He would then stand off and pound them to pieces with his artillery. Writes German General Guderian: "Whenever...
...Look at the rowboats," they invariably shout, and then wave energetically. Since you have only as many hands as oars, it is almost impossible to wave back. Nevertheless, friendly passengers or not, it is a scientific fact that at least once this spring you will be tipped over by the excursion boat...
John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, fro studies of the interplay of economics and politics in American life; Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics, for studies of British policy and experience in industrial organization; Harold P. Levene, lecture on Applied Science, for studies on wave propagation; Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, professor of English, for studies in the technique of Finnish oral poetry...