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Volume 70, Issue 4
April 2002
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Looking for good books
Hans Christian von Baeyer
Am. J. Phys. 70, 375 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1435348
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Brewster’s view on wave theory
James B. Calvert
Am. J. Phys. 70, 375 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1435349
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The Neurobiological Connection of Physics Education Research
Alan Scott
Am. J. Phys. 70, 375 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1435350
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PAPERS

Resource Letter: MesP-1: Mesoscopic physics
L. I. Glazman
Am. J. Phys. 70, 376–383 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1424270
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Getting more from pushing less: Negative specific heat and conductivity in nonequilibrium steady states
R. K. P. Zia; E. L. Praestgaard; O. G. Mouritsen
Am. J. Phys. 70, 384–392 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1427088
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Faster, cheaper, safer optical tweezers for the undergraduate laboratory
John Bechhoefer; Scott Wilson
Am. J. Phys. 70, 393–400 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1445403
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Supplementary Material
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Understanding the Laughlin wave function for the fractional quantum Hall effect
B. L. Johnson
Am. J. Phys. 70, 401–405 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1446855
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A comparison between the Doppler and cosmological redshifts
Maria Luiza Bedran
Am. J. Phys. 70, 406–408 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1446856
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Charge density on a thin straight wire: The first visit
J. D. Jackson
Am. J. Phys. 70, 409–410 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1432973
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Causality, the Coulomb field, and Newton’s law of gravitation
F. Rohrlich
Am. J. Phys. 70, 411–414 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1435345
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The two-capacitor problem with radiation
Timothy B. Boykin; Dennis Hite; Nagendra Singh
Am. J. Phys. 70, 415–420 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1435344
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A simple model for the nonretarded dispersive force between an electrically polarizable atom and a magnetically polarizable one
C. Farina; F. C. Santos; A. C. Tort
Am. J. Phys. 70, 421–423 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1378015
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Electromagnetic induction and damping: Quantitative experiments using a PC interface
Avinash Singh; Y. N. Mohapatra; Satyendra Kumar
Am. J. Phys. 70, 424–427 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1446859
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On the electromagnetic force on a polarizable body
A. Engel; R. Friedrichs
Am. J. Phys. 70, 428–432 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1432971
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The single particle potential in mean-field theory
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Am. J. Phys. 70, 433–437 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1446860
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Liquid–vapor equilibrium in a gravitational field
Mário N. Berberan-Santos; Evgeny N. Bodunov; Lionello Pogliani
Am. J. Phys. 70, 438–443 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1424264
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Short solution of the radioactive decay chain equations
Dobromir S. Pressyanov
Am. J. Phys. 70, 444–445 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1427084
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The Bertrand theorem revisited
Yair Zarmi
Am. J. Phys. 70, 446–449 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1430698
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NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Comment on “Fun and frustration with quarkonium in a 1+1 dimension,” by R. S. Bhalerao and B. Ram [Am. J. Phys. 69(7), 817–818 (2001)]
Antonio S. de Castro
Am. J. Phys. 70, 450–451 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1445407
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Comment on “Fun and frustration with quarkonium in a 1+1 dimension,” by R. S. Bhalerao and B. Ram [Am. J. Phys. 69 (7), 817–818 (2001)]
R. M. Cavalcanti
Am. J. Phys. 70, 451–452 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1450576
View articletitled, Comment on “Fun and frustration with quarkonium in a <span class="inline-formula no-formula-id"><span class="mathFormula"></span><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mtext xmlns="">1+1</mtext></math></span> dimension,” by R. S. Bhalerao and B. Ram [Am. J. Phys. <strong>69</strong> (7), 817–818 (2001)]
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Note on “Comment on ‘A check of Prigogine’s theorem of minimum entropy production in a rod in a nonequilibrium stationary state,’ by Irena Danielewicz-Ferchmin and A. Ryszard Ferchmin” [Am. J. Phys. 68 (10), 962–965 (2000)], by Peter Palffy-Muhoray [Am. J. Phys. 69 (7), 825–826 (2001)]
Wm. G. Hoover
Am. J. Phys. 70, 452–454 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1432974
View articletitled, Note on “Comment on ‘A check of Prigogine’s theorem of minimum entropy production in a rod in a nonequilibrium stationary state,’ by Irena Danielewicz-Ferchmin and A. Ryszard Ferchmin” [Am. J. Phys. <strong>68</strong> (10), 962–965 (2000)], by Peter Palffy-Muhoray [Am. J. Phys. <strong>69</strong> (7), 825–826 (2001)]
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APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES

Unipolar motors and their application to the demonstration of magnetic field properties
Stanisl/aw Bednarek
Am. J. Phys. 70, 455–458 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1412648
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Simple Internet data collection for physics laboratories
Kyle Forinash; Raymond Wisman
Am. J. Phys. 70, 458–461 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1445408
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BOOK REVIEWS

Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics
Edward Teller; Judith Shoolery; Freeman J. Dyson
Am. J. Phys. 70, 462–463 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1456079
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Nucleus: A Trip Into the Heart of Matter
Ray Mackintosh; Björn Jonsen; Jim Al-Khalili; Theresa Peña; James O’Connell
Am. J. Phys. 70, 463–464 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1456078
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On cat–human interaction from the viewpoint of physics: An equation of motion
Anxo Biasi
A simple model of a gravitational lens from geometric optics
Bogdan Szafraniec, James F. Harford
Playing with active matter
Angelo Barona Balda, Aykut Argun, et al.
The physics of “everesting” on a bicycle
Martin Bier
Perfect and imperfect pitchfork bifurcations in a V-shaped spring-mass system: Comment on “Hysteresis in a simple V-shaped spring-mass system” [Am. J. Phys. 89, 663–665 (2021)]
J. J. Bissell, A. M. Nagaitis
The hardest-hit home run?
Donald C. Warren
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