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Volume 65, Issue 1
January 1997
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

Questions and Answers

Question #55. Are there pictorial examples that distinguish covariant and contravariant vectors?
Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Am. J. Phys. 65, 11 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18492
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Question #56. Ice cream making.
Sherwood R. Paul
Am. J. Phys. 65, 11 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18493
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Answer to Question #45 [“What (if anything) does the photoelectric effect teach us?,’’ R. Q. Stanley, Am. J. Phys. 64 (7), 839 (1996)]
P. W. Milonni
Am. J. Phys. 65, 11–12 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18494
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Answer to Question #46 [“How does the microwave oven really work?,’’ Clifford Swartz, Am. J. Phys. 64 (7), 839 (1996)]
Craig F. Bohren
Am. J. Phys. 65, 12 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18794
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Awards

Priscilla W. Laws: Recipient of the Robert A. Millikan Medal
Karen L. Johnston
Am. J. Phys. 65, 13 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18495
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Millikan Lecture 1996: Promoting active learning based on physics education research in introductory physics courses
P. W. Laws
Am. J. Phys. 65, 14–21 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18496
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Papers

Electromagnetic waves in space: Visualization of E and B, and pedagogical approaches using superposition
Peter Heller
Am. J. Phys. 65, 22–25 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18497
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A different approach to introducing statistical mechanics
Thomas A. Moore; Daniel V. Schroeder
Am. J. Phys. 65, 26–36 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18490
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An unpublished lecture by Heinrich Hertz: “On the energy balance of the Earth’’
Joseph F. Mulligan; H. Gerhard Hertz
Am. J. Phys. 65, 36–45 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18565
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On the effectiveness of active-engagement microcomputer-based laboratories
Edward F. Redish; Jeffery M. Saul; Richard N. Steinberg
Am. J. Phys. 65, 45–54 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18498
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Hidden momentum and the electromagnetic mass of a charge and current carrying body
V. Hnizdo
Am. J. Phys. 65, 55–65 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18789
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A new approach to linear Landau damping
G. Brodin
Am. J. Phys. 65, 66–74 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18521
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A mechanical analog of first- and second-order phase transitions
G. Fletcher
Am. J. Phys. 65, 74–81 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18522
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Magnetic dipole oscillations and radiation damping
Daniel R. Stump; Gerald L. Pollack
Am. J. Phys. 65, 81–87 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18523
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Notes and Discussions

Resistor networks and irrational numbers
D. Thompson
Am. J. Phys. 65, 88 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18499
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Remarks about the manipulation of the Kronig–Penney model for the introduction into the energy band theory of crystals
Hans Lippmann
Am. J. Phys. 65, 89–92 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18571
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Hidden momentum of a relativistic fluid carrying current in an external electric field
V. Hnizdo
Am. J. Phys. 65, 92–94 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18500
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Book Reviews

Superconductivity
Charles P. Poole, Jr.; Horacio A. Farach; Richard J. Creswick; Kara Beauchamp
Am. J. Phys. 65, 95 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18611
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Mathematica in Theoretical Physics: Selected Examples from Classical Mechanics to Fractals
Gerd Baumann; Russell J. Dubisch
Am. J. Phys. 65, 96 (1997) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18606
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