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Volume 72, Issue 8
August 2004
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

PAPERS

Resource Letter FNP-1: Frontiers of nuclear physics
G. F. Bertsch
Am. J. Phys. 72, 983–991 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1763174
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Unfamiliar trajectories for a relativistic particle in a Kepler or Coulomb potential
Timothy H. Boyer
Am. J. Phys. 72, 992–997 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1737396
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Solutions of relativistic Newton’s equations for nonconstant fields
R. E. Wooten; J. H. Macek
Am. J. Phys. 72, 998–1001 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1759357
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A computational approach to teaching conservative chaos
Todd Timberlake
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1002–1007 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1764559
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An experiment in nonlinear beam theory
A. Valiente
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1008–1012 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1738427
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Lenz vector operations on spherical hydrogen atom eigenfunctions
C. E. Burkhardt; J. J. Leventhal
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1013–1016 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1758225
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Quantum interference in a driven washboard potential
Quentin Thommen; Jean Claude Garreau; Véronique Zehnlé
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1017–1025 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1757446
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A differential formulation of diffraction theory for the undergraduate optics course
Timothy M. Pritchett; A. David Trubatch
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1026–1034 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1758226
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Quality factors and conductances in Helmholtz resonators
Michael J. Moloney
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1035–1039 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1677375
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Relativistic orbits with computer algebra
Frank Y.-H. Wang
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1040–1044 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1645284
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Visual appearance of a Morris–Thorne-wormhole
Thomas Müller
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1045–1050 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1758220
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Analytical solution for photonic band-gap crystals using Drude conductivity
Brian Schulkin; Laszlo Sztancsik; John F. Federici
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1051–1054 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1758223
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The sled race
Gerald E. Hite
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1055–1058 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1758224
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Reappraising Einstein’s 1909 application of fluctuation theory to Planckian radiation
F. E. Irons
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1059–1067 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1767098
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The distribution of composite measurements: How to be certain of the uncertainties in what we measure
M. P. Silverman; W. Strange; T. C. Lipscombe
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1068–1081 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1738426
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Fermi and Bose pressures in statistical mechanics
Loyal Durand
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1082–1094 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1737395
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Steppingstones in Hamiltonian dynamics
Thomas F. Jordan
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1095–1099 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1737394
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Generalized Fierz identities
José F. Nieves; Palash B. Pal
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1100–1108 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1757445
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NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

An elliptic property of parabolic trajectories
J. L. Fernández-Chapou; A. L. Salas-Brito; C. A. Vargas
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1109 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1688786
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Erratum: “What good is the thermodynamic limit?” [Am. J. Phys. 72 (1), 25–29 (2004)]
Daniel F. Styer
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1110 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1703547
View articletitled, Erratum: “What good is the thermodynamic limit?” [Am. J. Phys. <strong>72</strong> (1), 25–29 (2004)]
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APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES

A novel electrospray-based ion mobility spectrometer
Ben Bathgate; Eric C. S. Cheong; Christopher J. Backhouse
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1111–1118 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1645286
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Realization of an optical profiler: Introduction to scanning probe microscopy
J.-M. Friedt
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1118–1125 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1648329
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PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH SECTION

Concept substitution: A teaching strategy for helping students disentangle related physics concepts
Diane J. Grayson
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1126–1133 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1764564
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BOOK REVIEWS

Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light
Moses Fayngold; John G. Cramer
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1134 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1761067
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The Snowflake: Winter’s Secret Beauty
Kenneth Libbrecht; Patricia Rasmussen; Philippe M. Binder
Am. J. Phys. 72, 1134–1135 (2004) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1764565
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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
Counterintuitive properties of relativistic relative motion for accelerated observers
M. Pössel
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