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Volume 64, Issue 7
July 1996
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

Questions and Answers

Question ♯45. What (if anything) does the photoelectric effect teach us?
Robert Q. Stanley
Am. J. Phys. 64, 839 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18473
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Question ♯46. How does the microwave oven really work?
Clifford E. Swartz
Am. J. Phys. 64, 839 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18474
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Question ♯47. Is there an ‘‘iso‐’’ name for a ΔU=0 process?
David W. Ball
Am. J. Phys. 64, 840 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18107
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Answer to Question ♯19 [‘‘Noether’s theorem and discrete symmetries,’’ Dwight E. Neuenschwander, Am. J. Phys. 63(6), 489 (1995)]
Benito Hernández‐Bermejo
Am. J. Phys. 64, 840 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18108
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Answer to Question ♯19 [‘‘Noether’s theorem and discrete symmetries,’’ Dwight E. Neuenschwander, Am. J. Phys. 63(6), 489 (1995)]
Robert Mills
Am. J. Phys. 64, 840 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18109
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Answer to Question ♯21 [‘‘Snell’s law in quantum mechanics,’’ Steve Blau and Brad Halfpap, Am. J. Phys. 63(7), 583 (1995)]
Bruce A. Sherwood
Am. J. Phys. 64, 840–842 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18110
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Answer to Question ♯30 [‘‘How are positrons moderated?,’’ Thomas D. Rossing, Am. J. Phys. 63(12), 1065 (1995)]
David C. Schoepf
Am. J. Phys. 64, 842–843 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18104
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Answer to Question ♯21 [‘‘Snell’s law in quantum mechanics,’’ Steve Blau and Brad Halfpap, Am. J. Phys. 63 (7), 583 (1995)]
Peter W. Milonni
Am. J. Phys. 64, 842 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18465
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Answer to Question ♯30 [‘‘How are positrons moderated?,’’ Thomas D. Rossing, Am. J. Phys. 63(12), 1065 (1995)]
M. Weber; K. G. Lynn
Am. J. Phys. 64, 843 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18105
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Editorial

Editorial: Wanted—Qualitative Questions
Robert H. Romer
Am. J. Phys. 64, 844–846 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18106
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Papers

The Richtmyer Memorial Lecture: Bose–Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Gas
Carl E. Wieman
Am. J. Phys. 64, 847–855 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18111
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Surface charges on circuit wires and resistors play three roles
J. D. Jackson
Am. J. Phys. 64, 855–870 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18112
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A graphical representation of the Dirac algebra
David M. Goodmanson
Am. J. Phys. 64, 870–880 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18113
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Feynman’s derivation of the Schrödinger equation
David Derbes
Am. J. Phys. 64, 881–884 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18114
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On the electromagnetically damped mechanical harmonic oscillator
Lance McCarthy
Am. J. Phys. 64, 885–891 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18115
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Surface charges and energy flow in a ring rotating in a magnetic field
J. M. Aguirregabiria; A. Hernández; M. Rivas
Am. J. Phys. 64, 892–895 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18116
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Visual appearance of a rolling bicycle wheel
Ricardo E. de Souza; Giovani L. Vasconcelos
Am. J. Phys. 64, 896–897 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18117
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Nonlinear coupled oscillators and Fourier transforms: An advanced undergraduate laboratory
P. A. DeYoung; D. LaPointe; J. Levy; W. Lorenz
Am. J. Phys. 64, 898–902 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18118
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Pulsed waves: Reflections and the speed of sound
Leonard Yarmus
Am. J. Phys. 64, 903–906 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18119
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Teaching Fourier analysis in a microcomputer based laboratory
Ingo Büll; Reimer Lincke
Am. J. Phys. 64, 906–913 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18120
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Demonstration of the evanescent wave through absorption
R. Weigand; J. M. Guerra
Am. J. Phys. 64, 913–916 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18121
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Magnetic damping: Analysis of an eddy current brake using an airtrack
Louis H. Cadwell
Am. J. Phys. 64, 917–923 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18122
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Scattering from a nonsymmetric potential in one dimension as a coupled‐channel problem
Y. Nogami; C. K. Ross
Am. J. Phys. 64, 923–928 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18123
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Dominant color reversals and chromaticity cusps in interferometric color mixing
Thomas E. Kiess; Richard E. Berg
Am. J. Phys. 64, 928–934 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18103
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Features of a nonlinear normal‐mode problem
J. J. Brehm
Am. J. Phys. 64, 935–944 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18303
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The evolution and revival structure of localized quantum wave packets
Robert Bluhm; V. Alan Kostelecký; James A. Porter
Am. J. Phys. 64, 944–953 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18304
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Notes and Discussions

Writing to learn
Judith Kalman; Calvin Kalman
Am. J. Phys. 64, 954–955 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18279
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A response to ‘‘Writing to learn,’’ by Judith Kalman and Calvin Kalman [Am. J. Phys. 64, 954–955 (1996)]
Stephen F. Becker
Am. J. Phys. 64, 956 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18280
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Book Reviews

Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader
S. Chandrasekhar; Michael Nauenberg
Am. J. Phys. 64, 957–958 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18453
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Physics Begins with an M. . . Mysteries, Magic and Myth
John W. Jewett, Jr.; Arthur Eisenkraft
Am. J. Phys. 64, 958–959 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18458
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Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 4th ed
George B. Arfken; Hans J. Weber; Lawrence Ruby
Am. J. Phys. 64, 959 (1996) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18436
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Temperature as joules per bit
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Online “Advanced Labs” in physics
Peter A. Bennett
The right way to introduce complex numbers in damped harmonic oscillators
Jason Tran, Leanne Doughty, et al.
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