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Volume 57, Issue 12
December 1989
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

Letters To The Editor

About which moving or accelerating points may dynamical moments validly be taken? Errors unintentional
Claude Kacser
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1063 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15785
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The history of demonstration lectures
John L. McKnight; Rolf G. Winter
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1063–1064 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15786
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Errors intentional and otherwise
Robert Weinstock
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1063 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16136
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A comment from a chemist on modernizing the introductory physics texts
Howard R. Leo
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1064 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15787
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Units for the crew of spaceship Earth
Robert D. Freeman
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1064–1065 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15788
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The search for gravitational waves—A correction
Massimo Tinto
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1065 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15789
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Is quantum mechanics crazy?
Daniel T. Gillespie
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1065–1066 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15790
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Editorial

Editorial: Vote for your favorite AJP papers!
Robert H. Romer
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1067 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15791
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Papers

Conductance fluctuations in loops of gold
S. Washburn
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1069–1078 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15792
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The adiabatic theorem and Berry’s phase
Barry R. Holstein
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1079–1084 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15793
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Nonradiating sources: The subtle art of changing light into black
Nicole Meyer‐Vernet
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1084–1089 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15794
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Wobbling, toppling, and forces of contact
Tad McGeer; Leigh Hunt Palmer
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1089–1098 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15795
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A correction for spring mass in the ubiquitous centripetal force experiment of freshman physics
Robert L. Wildey
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1098–1102 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15796
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Gamow vectors and decaying states
A. Bohm; M. Gadella; G. Bruce Mainland
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1103–1108 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15797
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A general method for treating the incidence of a plane electromagnetic wave on a plane interface between dielectrics
Joaquin Navasquillo; Vicente Such; Francisco Pomer
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1109–1112 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15798
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New graphical methods for linear regression with errors: Unweighted data
William Lichten
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1112–1115 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15799
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Statistical treatment of effusion of a dilute gas
Carlo Bernardini
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1116–1117 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15800
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A general method for differentiation of vectors in orthogonal systems of coordinates
W. K. Koo; Y. C. Liew
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1118–1120 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15801
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Nonequivalence of a uniformly accelerating reference frame and a frame at rest in a uniform gravitational field
Edward A. Desloge
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1121–1125 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15802
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Nonfrictional hysteresis in a rotating U‐tube
Bruce Denardo; Brad Barber; Chris Folley; William Wright
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1126–1130 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15803
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A one‐dimensional realization of a general model for cluster–cluster aggregation
William J. Titus
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1131–1136 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15804
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Maximum power point characteristics of heat engines as a general thermodynamic problem
J. M. Gordon
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1136–1142 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16130
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Simple demonstration of superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O7
G. C. Brown; J. O. Rasure; W. A. Morrison
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1142–1144 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15805
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A novel method for solving a class of differential equations
Robert Weinstock
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1144–1147 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16118
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Notes and Discussions

Identification of elements by x‐ray interaction—A laboratory experiment
B. R. Kerur; H. A. Jahagirdar; S. R. Thontadarya; B. Hanumaiah
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1148–1149 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16119
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Michelson–Morley analysis
V. S. Soni
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1149–1150 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16122
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A simple derivation of distribution functions for Bose and Fermi statistics
Helmut Schmidt
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1150–1151 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16123
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Comment on ‘‘General relativistic perihelia precession and the anharmonic oscillator,’’ by M. G. Olsson [Am. J. Phys. 56, 89–91 (1988)]
A. Martin Sánchez; F. Vera Tomé; C. Miró Rodriguez
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1151–1152 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16124
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Apparatus Notes

A digital circuit for measuring small flows
A. Arenas; L. Victoria; T. Luna
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1153–1154 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16125
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Book Reviews

Models of the Nucleon: From Quarks to Soliton
Rajat K. Bhaduri; Franz Gross
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1155–1156 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16126
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Lasers
Peter W. Milonni; Joseph H. Eberly; Phillip L. Gould
Am. J. Phys. 57, 1156 (1989) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16100
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