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PI1tj5iC5 Rembrandt Dewees Summers, A.B., Ph.D. Laws of motion, heat. light. sound, and dawn of the atomic age, physics stands electricity, in constant operation through- with its companion, chemistry, at the en- out the universe, are the determining fac- trance to a new field of exploration. Young tors of both living and non-livinq phen- physicists of the immediate future have an omena. Though these laws which govern unprecedented opportunity to take part in mailer cannot be altered to accommodate the advancement of science, both in new the human race, they can, through under- areas and in further application of knowl- standing, be applied in harnessing natural edge already possessed. forces for power and energy. But physics is not for the specialist alone Through the ages man has uncovered -it is for every intelligent being who more and more secrets of his physical en- recognizes that he lives in a mechanized vironment; he has built a progressively world where innumerable man-created de- higher type of scientific culture as the re- vices are operating according to change- vealed secrets provided access to more less natural laws, making his everyday dynamic sources of energy. Today, in the life more convenient and efficient. Summers-weights balance on a force table 52