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Volume 66, Issue 6
June 1998
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

Guest Comment

Who needs physics education research!?
David Hestenes
Am. J. Phys. 66, 465–467 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18898
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Awards

Max Dresden: 1997 Klopsteg Lecturer
Robert C. Hilborn
Am. J. Phys. 66, 468 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18826
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The Klopsteg Memorial Lecture: Fundamentality and numerical scales—Diversity and the structure of physics
Max Dresden
Am. J. Phys. 66, 468–482 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18827
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Papers

Goals of the Introductory Physics Laboratory
American Association of Physics Teachers
Am. J. Phys. 66, 483–485 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19042
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Resource Letter Sol-1: Solitons
Antonio Degasperis
Am. J. Phys. 66, 486–497 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18889
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Evolution of a vibrational wave packet on a disordered chain
Philip B. Allen; Jonathan Kelner
Am. J. Phys. 66, 497–506 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18890
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Klein’s paradox
Barry R. Holstein
Am. J. Phys. 66, 507–512 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18891
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Density functional theory of one-dimensional two-particle systems
H. L. Neal
Am. J. Phys. 66, 512–516 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18892
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Recession parameters versus cosmic time
Bernard S. Lement
Am. J. Phys. 66, 517–524 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18893
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Schwinger’s method and the computation of determinants
Luiz C. de Albuquerque; C. Farina; S. Rabello
Am. J. Phys. 66, 524–528 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18894
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An undergraduate experiment on the propagation of thermal waves
A. Bodas; V. Gandı́a; E. López-Baeza
Am. J. Phys. 66, 528–533 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18899
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Describing the state of a stochastic process
Daniel T. Gillespie
Am. J. Phys. 66, 533–536 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18895
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Path integral for the quantum harmonic oscillator using elementary methods
S. M. Cohen
Am. J. Phys. 66, 537–540 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18896
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Notes and Discussions

Comment on “Phase space integration method for bound states” by Sharada Nagabhushana, B. A. Kagali, and Sivramkrishna Vijay [Am. J. Phys. 65 (6), 563–564 (1997)]
W. N. Mei
Am. J. Phys. 66, 541–542 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18904
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Erratum: “Tabletop time-reversal violation” [Am. J. Phys. 64 (8), 982–985 (1996)]
Jonathan L. Rosner
Am. J. Phys. 66, 543 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18897
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Only the integral form of the law of electromagnetic induction explains the dynamo
G. C. Scorgie
Am. J. Phys. 66, 543 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18903
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Apparatus and Demonstration Notes

Remote controls for infrared experiments
Jay S. Huebner; N. Sundaralingam
Am. J. Phys. 66, 544–547 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18824
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Plane wave interference: A didactic experiment to measure the wavelength of light
T. Catunda; J. Sartori; L. A. O. Nunes
Am. J. Phys. 66, 548–549 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18825
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Book Reviews

Measuring the Quantum State of Light
Ulf Leonhardt; Mark Beck
Am. J. Phys. 66, 550–551 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18900
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Introduction to Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Physics
Peter J. Collings; Michael Hird; C. C. Huang
Am. J. Phys. 66, 551 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18901
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Introduction to Classical and Quantum Harmonic Oscillators
Sylvan C. Bloch; Teymour Darkhosh
Am. J. Phys. 66, 551–552 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18902
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I. L. Tregillis, George R. R. Martin
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John D. Norton
All objects and some questions
Charles H. Lineweaver, Vihan M. Patel
The surprising subtlety of electrostatic field lines
Kevin Zhou, Tomáš Brauner
Kepler's Moon puzzle—A historical context for pinhole imaging
Thomas Quick, Johannes Grebe-Ellis
An undergraduate lab experiment on matched filtering as used in gravitational wave detection
Michael Daam, Antje Bergmann, et al.
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