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Volume 62, Issue 11

November 1994

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ISSN 0002-9505

EISSN 1943-2909

In this Issue

Letters To The Editor
Questions and Answers
Guest Comment
Awards
Papers
Notes and Discussions
New Problems
Book Reviews

Letters To The Editor

Boltzmann on Maxwell’s style

Peter Wessels

Am. J. Phys. 62, 969–970 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17645

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Should the APS get involved with education? Yes, but look before you leap!

David B. Pushkin

Am. J. Phys. 62, 969 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17711

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Boltzmann on Maxwell’s style

S. Chandrasekhar

Am. J. Phys. 62, 969 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17712

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Scientists need not apply!

H. L. Retcofsky

Am. J. Phys. 62, 970 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17646

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Textbooks: Price versus value

Michael Zeilik

Am. J. Phys. 62, 970 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17647

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Eastward deflection of a falling object

Wolfgang Rueckner

Am. J. Phys. 62, 970 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17648

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An editorial comment on eastward deflection and other sample ‘‘Questions and Answers’’

Robert H. Romer

Am. J. Phys. 62, 970–971 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17649

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Questions and Answers

Question ♯5. Massive neutrinos

Mary L. Boas

Am. J. Phys. 62, 972 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17650

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Question ♯6. Faraday’s law

A. P. French

Am. J. Phys. 62, 972 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17651

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Question ♯7. The spin‐statistics theorem

Dwight E. Neuenschwander

Am. J. Phys. 62, 972 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17652

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Question ♯8. Making our country worth defending

Dick Peterson

Am. J. Phys. 62, 972 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17653

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Guest Comment

Guest Comment: Missed opportunities for mathematics

Edward A. Connors

Am. J. Phys. 62, 973 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17654

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Awards

American Association of Physics Teachers 1993 Millikan Medalist: James A. Minstrell

James H. Stith

Am. J. Phys. 62, 974 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17655

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Papers

‘‘Sagnac’’ effect: A century of Earth‐rotated interferometers

R. Anderson; H. R. Bilger; G. E. Stedman

Am. J. Phys. 62, 975–985 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17656

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Uncertainty principle for joint measurement of noncommuting variables

M. G. Raymer

Am. J. Phys. 62, 986–993 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17657

Abstract

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Entropy of measurement and erasure: Szilard’s membrane model revisited

Harvey S. Leff; Andrew F. Rex

Am. J. Phys. 62, 994–1000 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17749

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On the resistance between two points on a grid

Giulio Venezian

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1000–1004 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17696

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Electric field of a slowly moving rectangular current loop: A microscopic approach

B. L. Blackford

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1005–1008 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17697

Abstract

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Exactly solvable noncentral potentials in two and three dimensions

Avinash Khare; Rajat K. Bhaduri

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1008–1014 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17698

Abstract

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Collinear H+H–H reaction. Computer simulation of quasiclassical trajectories

J.‐P. Grivet

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1014–1020 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17699

Abstract

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Southern California Area Modern Physics Institute (SCAMPI): A model enhancement program in modern physics for high school teachers

Roger Nanes; John W. Jewett, Jr.

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1020–1026 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17700

Abstract

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Students’ understanding of superposition of electric fields

S. Rainson; G. Tranströmer; L. Viennot

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1026–1032 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17701

Abstract

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Stationary Fourier transform spectrometer for use as a teaching tool

A. R. Harvey; M. Begbie; M. J. Padgett

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1033–1036 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17702

Abstract

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The equivalence principle in the Schwarzschild geometry

William Moreau; Richard Neutze; D. K. Ross

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1037–1040 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17703

Abstract

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Notes and Discussions

The parachute paradox

David Auerbach

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1041 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17761

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Comment on ‘‘Scattering by a finite periodic potential,’’ by Sprung, Wu, and Martorell [Am. J. Phys. 60, 1118–1124 (1993)]

Roger G. Newton

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1042–1043 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17704

View articletitled, Comment on ‘‘Scattering by a finite periodic potential,’’ by Sprung, Wu, and Martorell [Am. J. Phys. <strong>60</strong>, 1118–1124 (1993)]

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Specific activities of the elements

M. P. Fewell

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1043–1045 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17705

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New Problems

Diffraction of atoms by light

Phillip Gould

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1046–1050 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17706

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Book Reviews

All Was Light: An Introduction to Newton’s Opticks

A. Rupert Hall; Robert E. Schofield

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1051 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17707

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Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made The Universe Expand

Eduard A. Tropp; Vickor Ya. Frenkel; Artur D. Chernin;; David Shelupsky

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1052–1054 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17709

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The Private Lives of Albert Einstein

Roger Highfield; Paul Carter; Clayton A. Gearhart

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1054–1055 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17710

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Introduction to Lattice Dynamics

Martin T. Dove; Carlos A. Condat

Am. J. Phys. 62, 1051–1052 (1994) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17708

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