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Volume 51, Issue 6
June 1983
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

Letters To The Editor

Letter to the Editor
Alfred Bork
Am. J. Phys. 51, 491 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13211
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Letter to the Editor
Arthur A. Broyles
Am. J. Phys. 51, 492 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13212
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Letter to the Editor
A. E. Siegman
Am. J. Phys. 51, 492 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13214
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Letter to the Editor
Melba Phillips
Am. J. Phys. 51, 492–493 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13215
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Answers without chalk: A challenge
Sardar Singh
Am. J. Phys. 51, 492 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13213
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New Problems
Edward M. Purcell
Am. J. Phys. 51, 494 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4755888
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The Back Of The Envelope

Solutions to May Problems
Edward M. Purcell
Am. J. Phys. 51, 494 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4755887
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Papers

Melba Newell Phillips Award
AAPT
Am. J. Phys. 51, 495 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/5.213081
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Laboratories and the rise of the physics profession in the nineteenth century
Melba Phillips
Am. J. Phys. 51, 497–503 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13216
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The pro‐solar, anti‐nuclear movement: A philosophical perspective
Carl G. Adler
Am. J. Phys. 51, 503–510 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13217
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Simple multisoliton solutions
A‐M. M. Abdel‐Rahman
Am. J. Phys. 51, 510–513 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13218
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Running backwards the Mermin device: Causality in EPR correlations
O. Costa De Beauregard
Am. J. Phys. 51, 513–516 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13219
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A critical look at introductory laboratory instruction
W. S. Toothacker
Am. J. Phys. 51, 516–520 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13220
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A theorem for physicists in the theory of random variables
Daniel T. Gillespie
Am. J. Phys. 51, 520–533 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13221
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A final‐exam comparison involving computer‐based instruction
L. M. Jones; Dennis Kane; Bruce Arne Sherwood; R. A. Avner
Am. J. Phys. 51, 533–538 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13489
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Determining the age of gas lantern mantles using gamma‐ray analysis
John Luetzelschwab
Am. J. Phys. 51, 538–542 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13490
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Undergraduate experiment in critical phenomena: Light scattering in a binary fluid mixture
A. C. Mowery; D. T. Jacobs
Am. J. Phys. 51, 542–545 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13199
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New method for calculating electric and magnetic fields and forces
Oleg D. Jefimenko
Am. J. Phys. 51, 545–551 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13200
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Lise Meitner and the beta‐ray energy controversy: An historical perspective
Sallie A. Watkins
Am. J. Phys. 51, 551–553 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13201
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The kinematical aspect of the fundamental theorem of calculus
David E. Betounes
Am. J. Phys. 51, 554–560 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13202
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Energy eigenvalues of a quantum anharmonic oscillator
Robert Fanelli; R. E. Struzynski
Am. J. Phys. 51, 561–564 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13203
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Exact partition functions for some one‐dimensional models via the isobaric ensemble
Marvin Bishop; Martin A. Boonstra
Am. J. Phys. 51, 564–566 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13204
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Notes and Discussion

Heisenberg’s gedanken experiment revisited
D. Home; S. Sengupta
Am. J. Phys. 51, 567–569 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13205
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Addendum: ‘‘Computer graphics for solutions of time‐dependent Schrödinger equations’’: Note on the numerical solutions of the Schrödinger equation
Robert L. W. Chen
Am. J. Phys. 51, 570 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13206
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Apparatus Notes

An addition of forces experiment for the introductory laboratory
F. C. Peterson; Sam Legvold
Am. J. Phys. 51, 571–572 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13207
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Crookes’s tube electron beam deflection by hand
J. Fukai; G. D. Thaxton; E. T. Kinzer
Am. J. Phys. 51, 572–573 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13208
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Measuring the lifetime of a metastable state
Richard Feinberg
Am. J. Phys. 51, 573–574 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13209
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Film Reviews

Women Physicists and Their Research—A Video Course (film)
K. Allison Nies; Mary Hennings; Lori Barrett
Am. J. Phys. 51, 576 (1983) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.13210
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