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Volume 60, Issue 11
November 1992
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

Letters To The Editor

Physics, error analysis, and statistics
William J. Thompson
Am. J. Phys. 60, 969 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16995
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Precision in scientific assertion
Romard Barthel
Am. J. Phys. 60, 969 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16996
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Scientific faith
J. B. T. McCaughan
Am. J. Phys. 60, 969–970 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16997
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Guest Comment

Guest comment: The ozone parable
Art Hobson
Am. J. Phys. 60, 971 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16998
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Papers

A poem by Ludwig Boltzmann
Fritz Rohrlich
Am. J. Phys. 60, 972–973 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16999
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ZAP! freshman electricity and magnetism using desktop experiments: A progress report
John G. King; Philip Morrison; Phylis Morrison; Jerome Pine
Am. J. Phys. 60, 973–978 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17000
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Dipoles at rest
David J. Griffiths
Am. J. Phys. 60, 979–987 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17001
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On Coulomb’s inverse square law
Peter Heering
Am. J. Phys. 60, 988–994 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17002
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Research as a guide for curriculum development: An example from introductory electricity. Part I: Investigation of student understanding
Lillian C. McDermott; Peter S. Shaffer
Am. J. Phys. 60, 994–1003 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17003
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Research as a guide for curriculum development: An example from introductory electricity. Part II: Design of instructional strategies
Peter S. Shaffer; Lillian C. McDermott
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1003–1013 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16979
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Renormalization of a model quantum field theory
Per Kraus; David J. Griffiths
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1013–1023 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16980
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Time evolution of minimum uncertainty states of a harmonic oscillator
H. A. Gersch
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1024–1030 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16981
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Fall streaks: Parabolic trajectories with a twist
Craig F. Bohren; Alistair B. Fraser
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1030–1033 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16982
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Two‐quantum absorption: An undergraduate’s experiment in nonlinear optics
B. W. Payton; A. Sieradzan
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1033–1039 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16983
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Where the Sun never sets: Solar insolation at the poles of Mercury
Kevin G. Suffern
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1040–1043 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16984
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Notes and Discussions

Comment on ‘‘Newton’s rings: A classroom demonstration with a He–Ne laser,’’ by A. F. Leung and Jiyeon Ester Lee [Am. J. Phys. 59, 662–664 (1991)]
Michael Belsley
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1044–1045 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16985
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Comment on ‘‘Transition between particle behavior and wave behavior,’’ by F. Bardou [Am. J. Phys. 59, 458–461 (1991)]
Francesco Gonella
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1045–1046 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16986
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A response to F. Gonella’s ‘‘Comment on ‘Transition between particle behavior and wave behavior’ ’’
François Bardou
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1046 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16987
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Charging a capacitor
I. Fundaun; C. Reese; H. H. Soonpaa
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1047–1048 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16988
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Book Reviews

The Electron: New Theory and Experiment
David Hestenes; Antonio Weingartshofer; Kannan Jagannathan
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1049–1050 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16989
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Classical Mechanics
Richard A. Matzner; Lawrence C. Shepley; John F. Donoghue
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1050 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16990
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Niels Bohr’s Times, in Physics, Philosophy, and Polity
Abraham Paiz; S. S. Schweber
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1051–1052 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16991
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Perturbation Methods
E. J. Hinch; Edward G. Harris
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1052–1053 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16992
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Solid‐State Physics: An Introduction to Theory and Experiment
Harald Ibach; Hans Lüth; Laszlo Mihaly; David Mandrus
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1053–1054 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16993
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Neutrino physics
Klaus Winter; Barry R. Holstein
Am. J. Phys. 60, 1054–1055 (1992) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16994
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Martin Bier
All objects and some questions
Charles H. Lineweaver, Vihan M. Patel
It is time to honor Emmy Noether with a momentum unit
Geoff Nunes, Jr.
Resource Letter: Synthesis of the elements in stars
Artemis Spyrou
Exploration of the Q factor for a parallel RLC circuit
J. G. Paulson, M. W. Ray
Resource Letter ALC-1: Advanced Laboratory Courses
Walter F. Smith
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