Engineering and Science, Volume 34:7, May 1971

Table of Contents

Books
The Frontier Challenge edited by John G. Clark
Complex Variables Applied in Science and Engineering by Harold Wayland
Cavitation by Robert T. Knapp, James W. Daily, and Frederick G. Hammitt
Discovery, Invention, Research, Through the Morphological Approach by Fritz Zwicky
Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations by Leon Lapidus and John Seinfeld

Features:

Creating the Next Discipline

Baxter Hall—A Laboratory for the Humanities and Social Sciences

A Time of Metamorphosis
We are facing an identity crisis for the species, a rite of passage from life in a world we never made, to life, for better or worse, in a world of human design.
by Robert L. Sinsheimer

Energy Unlimited
Huttenback's Law says that energy begets energy; it also produces a lot of solid achievement.

Robert B. Corey—1897-1971

Shock-Wave Alchemy

Campus News:

The Month at Caltech

Laboratory Exercise