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Volume 63, Issue 1

January 1995

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ISSN 0002-9505

EISSN 1943-2909

In this Issue

Letters To The Editor
Questions and Answers
Awards
Papers
Notes and Discussions
Apparatus and Demonstration Notes
Book Reviews

Letters To The Editor

Closed Orbits and Bertrand’s Theorem

Philip A. Macklin

Am. J. Phys. 63, 11 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17788

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Downsizing Physics

John D. Spangler

Am. J. Phys. 63, 11–12 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17789

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Dirac’s Famous Dictum on Interference: One Photon or Two?

Roy J. Glauber

Am. J. Phys. 63, 12 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17790

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Particle Physics in the Modern Physics Course

Joshua B. Diamond

Am. J. Phys. 63, 12 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18077

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Questions and Answers

Question ♯9. Why are diamonds such good thermal conductors?

Robert W. Cole

Am. J. Phys. 63, 13 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17791

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Question ♯10. Cooling and expansion of the universe

J. Richard Christman

Am. J. Phys. 63, 13 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17792

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Question ♯11. Quantum interaction time differences?

Gary A. LaMotte

Am. J. Phys. 63, 13 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17793

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Answer to Question ♯2 [‘‘Quark masses and binding energy in a proton,’’ James R. Huddle, Am. J. Phys. 62 (10), 871 (1994)]

Kenneth J. Epstein

Am. J. Phys. 63, 13–14 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17794

View articletitled, Answer to Question ♯2 [‘‘Quark masses and binding energy in a proton,’’ James R. Huddle, Am. J. Phys. 62 (10), 871 (1994)]

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Answer to Question ♯2 [‘‘Quark masses and binding energy in a proton,’’ James R. Huddle, Am. J. Phys. 62 (10), 871 (1994)]

Barry R. Holstein

Am. J. Phys. 63, 14 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17795

View articletitled, Answer to Question ♯2 [‘‘Quark masses and binding energy in a proton,’’ James R. Huddle, Am. J. Phys. 62 (10), 871 (1994)]

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Answer to Question ♯4 [‘‘Is there a physics application that is best analyzed in terms of continued fractions?,’’ Dwight E. Neuenschwander, Am. J. Phys. 62(10), 871 (1994)]

Howard C. Bryant

Am. J. Phys. 63, 14 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17796

View articletitled, Answer to Question ♯4 [‘‘Is there a physics application that is best analyzed in terms of continued fractions?,’’ Dwight E. Neuenschwander, Am. J. Phys. 62(10), 871 (1994)]

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Answer to Question ♯4 [‘‘Is there a physics application that is best analyzed in terms of continued fractions?,’’ Dwight E. Neuenschwander, Am. J. Phys. 62(10), 871 (1994)]

Lawrence Ruby

Am. J. Phys. 63, 14–15 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17797

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Answer to Question ♯4 [‘‘Is there a physics application that is best analyzed in terms of continued fractions?,’’ Dwight E. Neuenschwander, Am. J. Phys. 62(10), 871 (1994)]

Budh Ram

Am. J. Phys. 63, 15 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18066

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Awards

Frederick Reif: Recipient of the Robert A. Millikan Medal

Reuben E. Alley

Am. J. Phys. 63, 16 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17798

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Millikan Lecture 1994: Understanding and teaching important scientific thought processes

Frederick Reif

Am. J. Phys. 63, 17–32 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17764

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Papers

Foucault pendulum ‘‘wall clock’’

H. Richard Crane

Am. J. Phys. 63, 33–39 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17765

Abstract

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Mach–Zehnder interferometer as an instructional tool

Paul Nachman

Am. J. Phys. 63, 39–43 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17766

Abstract

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The mass of a gas of massless photons

H. Kolbenstvedt

Am. J. Phys. 63, 44–46 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17767

Abstract

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Near‐field–far‐field transition of a finite line source using incoherent light: A student laboratory experiment

Xincheng Yan; Yixin Yu; Louis Shen; Keith H. Wanser

Am. J. Phys. 63, 47–53 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17768

Abstract

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Multislit diffraction patterns using a slit‐grating combination

Kenneth S. Mendelson; Frank G. Karioris

Am. J. Phys. 63, 53–56 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17769

Abstract

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Superconductivity: A guide to alternating current susceptibility measurements and alternating current susceptometer design

Martin Nikolo

Am. J. Phys. 63, 57–65 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17770

Abstract

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Experiment to demonstrate diffusion doping

E. D. Jones

Am. J. Phys. 63, 66–71 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18076

Abstract

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Data analysis in the undergraduate nuclear laboratory

Byron Curry; Dave Riggins; P. B. Siegel

Am. J. Phys. 63, 71–76 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17771

Abstract

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Cyclotron analog applied to the measurement of rolling friction

Ian Edmonds; Nicholas Giannakis; Chris Henderson

Am. J. Phys. 63, 76–80 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17772

Abstract

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Notes and Discussions

Elementary derivation of the relativistic velocity addition law

L. Sartori

Am. J. Phys. 63, 81–82 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17773

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Mud thrown from a wheel again

Frank O. Goodman

Am. J. Phys. 63, 82–83 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17774

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A supersymmetric Hamiltonian from minimal coupling

S. Bruce

Am. J. Phys. 63, 84–85 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17775

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Infinite and polygonal capacitor networks: Comparison with analogous, Fibonacci sequence related, resistor networks

Harry A. Mavromatis

Am. J. Phys. 63, 85–86 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17776

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Comments on ‘‘Lost Horizons’’ by G. F. R. Ellis and T. Rothman [Am. J. Phys. 61 (10), 883–893 (1993)]

Michael Rauch

Am. J. Phys. 63, 87 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17777

View articletitled, Comments on ‘‘Lost Horizons’’ by G. F. R. Ellis and T. Rothman [Am. J. Phys. 61 (10), 883–893 (1993)]

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Past light cone shape and refocusing in cosmology, A Response to Michael Rauch’s ‘‘Comments on ‘Lost Horizons’ ’’ [Am. J. Phys. 63, 87 (1995)]

G. F. R. Ellis; Tony Rothman

Am. J. Phys. 63, 88–89 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18061

View articletitled, Past light cone shape and refocusing in cosmology, A Response to Michael Rauch’s ‘‘Comments on ‘Lost Horizons’ ’’ [Am. J. Phys. 63, 87 (1995)]

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Erratum: ‘‘The World Around Us, E. Leonard Jossem’s acceptance speech for the 1994 Oersted Medal presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers, 6 January 1994’’ [Am. J. Phys. 62 (7), 589–595 (1994)]

E. Leonard Jossem

Am. J. Phys. 63, 89 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18101

View articletitled, Erratum: ‘‘The World Around Us, E. Leonard Jossem’s acceptance speech for the 1994 Oersted Medal presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers, 6 January 1994’’ [Am. J. Phys. 62 (7), 589–595 (1994)]

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Apparatus and Demonstration Notes

Demonstration of charge conservation

Wolfgang Rueckner; Douglass Goodale; Daniel Rosenberg; David Tavilla

Am. J. Phys. 63, 90–91 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17778

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Book Reviews

The End of Physics: The Myth of a Unified Theory

David Lindley; David G. Boulware

Am. J. Phys. 63, 92 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17779

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Laser Spectroscopy: Selected Reprints, Edited by R. Gupta

Lutz Hüwel

Am. J. Phys. 63, 92–93 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17780

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Modern Quantum Mechanics, Revised Edition

J. J. Sakurai; S. F. Tuan; Eugene D. Commins

Am. J. Phys. 63, 93–95 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17781

View articletitled, Modern Quantum Mechanics, Revised Edition

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A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist

Fay Ajzenberg‐Selove; Judy R. Franz

Am. J. Phys. 63, 95–96 (1995) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17782

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