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1. Physics and Society
1. Physics and Society
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To study phenomena across these epochal scales, to devise experimental tools that provide ever more powerful means for viewing nature, and to create theories that allow us to comprehend what has been seen these are the goals and the achievements of physics. In deepening our view of nature, physics has profoundly affected our view of mankind because the underlying assumption of physics that there is order in the natural world and that the human mind can understand that orderpermeates modern thought.
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From Maxwell's work we have gained a deep understanding of electromagnetic phenomena from waves to plasmas and the answers to questions ranging from why air is transparent to how radiative energy transport determines solar and stellar equilibrium. Electromagnetic theory underlies the invention of radio, television, and radar and makes possible the creation of our vast industrial power networks and modern communications systems.
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The influx of European physicists, a generation of outstanding young American physicists, and the heritage of intense cooperation between science and government that grew out of the nation's efforts to develop radar and the atomic bomb presented the United States with a scientific community of unsurpassed quality. Discoveries by this community since World War II rank among the greatest achievements of physics.
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The phenomena of nuclear magnetic resonance, solid-state microelectronics, and superconducting materials for high field magnets, which combine to make the medical magnetic resonance imager, are all products of physics research of the past four decades. ically interact with matter.
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Advanced technology, in this age of robotics and the information explosion, is a major driving force behind economic growth in the developed countries. Looking to the future, the United States must be able to meet the challenge of creating the new technology needed to sustain growth.
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