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Volume 54, Issue 9
September 1986
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

Letters To The Editor

The responsibility of physics teachers
Sydney Lockett
Am. J. Phys. 54, 775 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14436
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Relativity or invariance?
Eric Sheldon
Am. J. Phys. 54, 775 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14437
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Radiation by extended currents and kicked sheets of charge
Mark A. Heald
Am. J. Phys. 54, 775–776 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14438
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‘‘Counterrevolutionary’’ physics
Harvey S. Leff
Am. J. Phys. 54, 776 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14439
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Thomson’s problem
N. Ashby; W. E. Brittin
Am. J. Phys. 54, 776–777 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14440
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Comment on ‘‘On the motion of an ice hockey puck’’
J. M. Daniels
Am. J. Phys. 54, 777–778 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14441
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Response to ‘‘Comment on ‘On the motion of an ice hockey puck’ ’’
K. Voyenli; E. Eriksen
Am. J. Phys. 54, 778 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14442
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Changes in the physics community
C. Sharp Cook
Am. J. Phys. 54, 778–779 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14443
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The burden of anonymity
N. Gauthier
Am. J. Phys. 54, 779 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14444
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Editorial

Editorial: The June 1986 institute—We did it for free
John S. Rigden
Am. J. Phys. 54, 781 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14445
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Papers

Resource letter CPE‐1: Computers in physics education
Robert G. Fuller
Am. J. Phys. 54, 782–786 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14446
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Carl Neumann versus Rudolf Clausius on the propagation of electrodynamic potentials
Thomas Archibald
Am. J. Phys. 54, 786–790 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14851
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Assessing uncertainty in physical constants
Max Henrion; Baruch Fischhoff
Am. J. Phys. 54, 791–798 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14447
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Inverse sprinklers: A lesson in the use of a conservation principle
A. Theodore Forrester
Am. J. Phys. 54, 798–799 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14448
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A simple experiment for studying the transition from order to chaos
H. Meissner; G. Schmidt
Am. J. Phys. 54, 800–804 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14449
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An alternate derivation of relativistic momentum
P. C. Peters
Am. J. Phys. 54, 804–808 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14450
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Floating metal ring in an alternating magnetic field
S. Y. Mak; K. Young
Am. J. Phys. 54, 808–811 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14451
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The resistance between two contacts in a plane and the capacitance between paraxial cylinders
Dean S. Edmonds, Jr.; Michael R. Corson
Am. J. Phys. 54, 811–816 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14452
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On the numbers of things and the distribution of first digits
Don S. Lemons
Am. J. Phys. 54, 816–817 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14453
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Photons, neutrinos, and gauge transformations
D. Han; Y. S. Kim; D. Son
Am. J. Phys. 54, 818–821 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14454
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A modulation transfer function analyzer based on a microcomputer and dynamic ram chip camera
Donald C. O’Shea; Alan C. Rakes
Am. J. Phys. 54, 821–824 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14455
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Linear flywheel for energy storage
Jimmy J. McCoy
Am. J. Phys. 54, 824–827 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14456
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Quantum mechanics in curved space
John F. Donoghue; Barry R. Holstein
Am. J. Phys. 54, 827–831 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14423
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The mechanics of flycasting: The flyline
Graig A. Spolek
Am. J. Phys. 54, 832–836 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14425
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Skin depth and complex magnetic susceptibility: An experimental alternative approach
Luis O. Juri; Victoria I. Bekeris; Ricardo G. Steinmann
Am. J. Phys. 54, 836–838 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14426
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Locating an orbiting object
J. Mottmann
Am. J. Phys. 54, 838–842 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14427
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Solar temperature at 4 GHz: An undergraduate experiment
George Lo; William P. Lonc
Am. J. Phys. 54, 843–846 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14428
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Zero angular momentum turns
Martin H. Edwards
Am. J. Phys. 54, 846–847 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14429
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Relativistic acoustic Doppler effect in the optical limit
R. A. Bachman
Am. J. Phys. 54, 848–849 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14430
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Notes and Discussions

New diagram for heat flows and work in a Carnot cycle
Manfred Bucher
Am. J. Phys. 54, 850–851 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14431
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Demonstrations of relative phase effects in optical systems
B. R. Russell
Am. J. Phys. 54, 851–852 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14432
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On the raindrop problem
B. G. Dick
Am. J. Phys. 54, 852–854 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14433
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Where is the V=0 equipotential?
Alison A. Baski; Albert A. Bartlett
Am. J. Phys. 54, 854 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14434
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Book Reviews

Masks of the Universe
Edward Harrison; David Layzer
Am. J. Phys. 54, 855–856 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14850
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Bird of Passage—Recollections of a Physicist
Rudolf Peierls; Victor F. Weisskopf
Am. J. Phys. 54, 856–857 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14419
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The Mechanical Universe: Introduction to Mechanics and Heat
Richard P. Olenick; Tom M. Apostol; David L. Goodstein; A. B. Arons
Am. J. Phys. 54, 857–862 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14420
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Analytical Acoustics
F. B. Stumpf; Uwe J. Hansen
Am. J. Phys. 54, 862 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14421
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The Physics of Amorphous Solids
Richard Zallen; Claude M. Penchina
Am. J. Phys. 54, 862–863 (1986) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14422
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