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Volume 54, Issue 1

January 1986

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ISSN 0002-9505

EISSN 1943-2909

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Letters To The Editor
Search for Simplicity
Papers
Notes and Discussions
Apparatus Notes
Book Reviews

Letters To The Editor

Navigation and the speed of light

Albert A. Bartlett

Am. J. Phys. 54, 9 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14756

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Controlled fusion and arms control

Lawrence Cranberg

Am. J. Phys. 54, 9 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14757

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Arms race and tanks—Inconsistency?

P. Leleux

Am. J. Phys. 54, 9–10 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14758

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Physicists must make peace

Thomas V. Marcella

Am. J. Phys. 54, 10 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14759

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Search for Simplicity

Search for Simplicity: Maxwell, Rayleigh, and Mt. Everest

Victor F. Weisskopf

Am. J. Phys. 54, 13–14 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14761

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Papers

Science and superstition: Comets and the French public in the 18th century

Philip Stewart

Am. J. Phys. 54, 16–24 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14763

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The time–asymmetry paradox

James Hurley

Am. J. Phys. 54, 25–28 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14764

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The dynamically shifted oscillator

W. M. Hartmann

Am. J. Phys. 54, 28–32 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14765

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Classical and semiclassical diamagnetism: A critique of treatment in elementary texts

S. L. O’Dell; R. K. P. Zia

Am. J. Phys. 54, 32–35 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14766

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Unveiling the solitons mystery: The Jacobi elliptic functions

José M. Cervero

Am. J. Phys. 54, 35–38 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14767

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Risk analysis of buried wastes from electricity generation

Bernard L. Cohen

Am. J. Phys. 54, 38–45 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14768

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Repulsive gravitation and inflationary universe models

O/. Gro/n

Am. J. Phys. 54, 46–52 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14769

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A simple conceptual model for two‐photon absorption

Frank A. Moscatelli

Am. J. Phys. 54, 52–54 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14770

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Volume exclusion correction to the ideal gas with a lattice gas model

J. M. Pimbley

Am. J. Phys. 54, 54–57 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14743

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Induced current effects in Faraday’s law and introduction to flux compression theories

Victor Namias

Am. J. Phys. 54, 57–69 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14744

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Effects of circular birefringence on light propagation and reflection

M. P. Silverman; R. B. Sohn

Am. J. Phys. 54, 69–76 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14745

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Active and passive views of gauge invariance in quantum mechanics

Donald H. Kobe

Am. J. Phys. 54, 77–80 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14746

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Rolling and sliding resistive forces on balls moving on a flat surface

J. Witters; D. Duymelinck

Am. J. Phys. 54, 80–83 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14747

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Notes and Discussions

Note on a ‘‘Class of Lorentz‐invariant theories of gravitation’’ [E.G. Harris, Am. J. Phys. 49, 1051 (1981)]

C. Leubner

Am. J. Phys. 54, 84–86 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14748

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Response to Leubner’s ‘‘Note on a ‘Class of Lorentz‐invariant theories of gravitation’ ’’ [Am. J. Phys. 54, 84 (1985)]

Edward G. Harris

Am. J. Phys. 54, 86 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14860

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Comments on ‘‘Simplistic explanations of Brewster’s law’’ [Am. J. Phys. 52, 660 (1984)]

S. M. Susskind

Am. J. Phys. 54, 87 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14749

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Comment on ‘‘Hamilton’s principle as a computational device’’ [Am. J. Phys. 25, 30 (1957)] and on problem 22 of chapter 2 of Goldstein’s Classical Mechanics

Saul T. Epstein

Am. J. Phys. 54, 87 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14866

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Apparatus Notes

Simple wide ranging digital integrator

H. M. Simpson; M. T. Matosky

Am. J. Phys. 54, 88–89 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14750

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Measuring magnetic fields with an IC chip in the introductory lab

Paul A. Bender

Am. J. Phys. 54, 89–90 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14751

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Book Reviews

The Physics of Vibration: Volume 1, Containing Part 1, The Simple Classical Vibrator

A. B. Pippard; Jack Rosenthal

Am. J. Phys. 54, 91–94 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14752

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Introduction to Modern Physics

Elmer E. Anderson; Carl Clark

Am. J. Phys. 54, 94 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14753

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Apple II Applications

Marvin L. De Jong; Joseph N. Palmieri

Am. J. Phys. 54, 94–95 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14754

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Physics of Waves

W. C. Elmore; M.A. Heald; John R. Albright

Am. J. Phys. 54, 95–96 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14755

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