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Volume 53, Issue 2
February 1985
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

Letters To The Editor

Letter to the Editor
A. John Mallinckrodt
Am. J. Phys. 53, 105 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14088
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Letter to the Editor
Jacob Neuberger
Am. J. Phys. 53, 105 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14089
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What is electrical energy?
Robert N. Varney
Am. J. Phys. 53, 105 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14090
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Editorial

Editorial: Small things in physics can be big things
John S. Rigden
Am. J. Phys. 53, 107 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14389
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Search for Simplicity

Search for Simplicity: Quantum mechanics and the Pauli principle
Victor F. Weisskopf
Am. J. Phys. 53, 109–110 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14406
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Papers

The role of memorization in physics education
M. A. B. Whitaker
Am. J. Phys. 53, 111–113 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14091
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Spacecraft navigation and relativity
Robert W. Flynn
Am. J. Phys. 53, 113–119 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14092
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When can we treat identical particles as distinguishable? An unfamiliar classical limit
R. L. Ingraham
Am. J. Phys. 53, 119–122 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14093
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The Lorentz‐invariant vacuum medium
Michael A. Shupe
Am. J. Phys. 53, 122–127 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14094
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Book authorship and the physics professoriate
Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.; John C. Weidman
Am. J. Phys. 53, 127–132 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14095
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Power series expansion solution to a classical problem in electrostatics
G. A. Estevez; L. B. Bhuiyan
Am. J. Phys. 53, 133–134 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14096
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Repeated potentials in one dimension and Lorentz transformations
R. C. T. da Costa
Am. J. Phys. 53, 134–137 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14097
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Population explosion in the vacuum
K. M. Hartmann
Am. J. Phys. 53, 137–142 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14098
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Time‐energy uncertainty relation and Lorentz covariance
P. E. Hussar; Y. S. Kim; Marilyn E. Noz
Am. J. Phys. 53, 142–147 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14099
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Understanding some simple phenomena in thermoacoustics with applications to acoustical heat engines
John Wheatley; T. Hofler; G. W. Swift; A. Migliori
Am. J. Phys. 53, 147–162 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14100
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Queueing: A different model for physics
Gregory L. Baker
Am. J. Phys. 53, 162–166 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14101
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Lorentz‐transformation properties for energy and momentum in electromagnetic systems
Timothy H. Boyer
Am. J. Phys. 53, 167–171 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14102
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Notes and Discussions

Two‐port network parameters: An application of linear algebraic techniques
Ronald Lane Reese; Lawrence S. Anker
Am. J. Phys. 53, 172–173 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14103
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Addition of group velocities
José Mario Saca
Am. J. Phys. 53, 173–174 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14104
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Binomial aspects of failure rate analysis
David Branson
Am. J. Phys. 53, 174–175 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14105
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Thoughts on projectile motion
S. K. Bose
Am. J. Phys. 53, 175–176 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14106
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Canonical transformation to bring a Hamiltonian to a given form
Robert Lynch
Am. J. Phys. 53, 176–177 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14107
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Stable black soap films
L. J. Bruner
Am. J. Phys. 53, 177–178 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14108
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Probability densities and the random variable transformation theorem
John D. Ramshaw
Am. J. Phys. 53, 178–179 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14109
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Invariant form for the relativistic acoustic Doppler effect
Donald E. Fahnline
Am. J. Phys. 53, 179–180 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14390
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On the ‘‘series method’’ to solve Schrödinger’s equation for the linear oscillator
G. Solt; J.‐P. Amiet
Am. J. Phys. 53, 180–181 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14110
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Apparatus Notes

Internal reflection demonstration
B. G. Eaton
Am. J. Phys. 53, 182 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14111
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Moment of inertia apparatus
Bruce Eaton; Richard De Geer; Walter Johnson
Am. J. Phys. 53, 183–184 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14112
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More about light scattering demonstrations
B. G. Eaton; John B. Johnston
Am. J. Phys. 53, 184–185 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14113
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Book Reviews

Cockcroft and the Atom
Guy Hartcup; T. E. Allibone; Lawrence Badash
Am. J. Phys. 53, 186–187 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14114
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Newton at the Bat: The Science in Sports
Eric W. Schrier; William F. Allman; Cliff Frohlich
Am. J. Phys. 53, 187–188 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14115
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Introduction to Classical and Modern Optics
Jurgen R. Meyer‐Arendt; Simon George
Am. J. Phys. 53, 188 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14116
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POST‐USE REVIEW: University Physics
Alvin Hudson; Rex Nelson; Matthew Deady; Thomas W. Moore
Am. J. Phys. 53, 189 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14117
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Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics
L. C. Epstein; Ron Edge
Am. J. Phys. 53, 189–190 (1985) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14118
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