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Volume 73, Issue 11
November 2005
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

ASTRONOMY EDUCATION RESEARCH
Jay M. Pasachoff
Am. J. Phys. 73, 997 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1947199
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Why relatively few choose physics: A view from inside the pipeline
George C. Whittemore
Am. J. Phys. 73, 997–998 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2074067
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PAPERS

Max Born and the quantum theory
Jeremy Bernstein
Am. J. Phys. 73, 999–1008 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2060717
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Sarah Frances Whiting: A foremother of American women physicists
Frieda A. Stahl
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1009–1013 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2049285
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Macroscopic coherence effects in a mesoscopic system: Weak localization of thin silver films
A. D. Beyer; M. Koesters; K. G. Libbrecht; E. D. Black
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1014–1019 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2049284
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Weight-controlled capillary viscometer
Rafael M. Digilov; M. Reiner
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1020–1022 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2060718
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Using retrograde motion to understand and determine orbital parameters
Bruce G. Thompson
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1023–1029 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2043149
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Always introduce the celestial sphere with a companion Earth-Sun figure
N. M. Duller
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1030–1032 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2000972
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Study of the Pioneer anomaly: A problem set
Slava G. Turyshev; Michael Martin Nieto; John D. Anderson
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1033–1044 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2008300
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Why does water change the pitch of a singing wineglass the way it does?
Yih-Yuh Chen
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1045–1049 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2063035
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Model study of the Landau–Zener approximation
Sydney Geltman; Nathan D. Aragon
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1050–1054 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2063047
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Student understanding of the ideal gas law, Part I: A macroscopic perspective
Christian H. Kautz; Paula R. L. Heron; Michael E. Loverude; Lillian C. McDermott
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1055–1063 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2049286
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Student understanding of the ideal gas law, Part II: A microscopic perspective
Christian H. Kautz; Paula R. L. Heron; Peter S. Shaffer; Lillian C. McDermott
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1064–1071 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2060715
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PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH SECTION

Factors influencing the algebra “reversal error”
Elaine Cohen; Stephen E. Kanim
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1072–1078 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2063048
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NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Another look at a damped physical pendulum
John C. Simbach; Joseph Priest
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1079–1080 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1858488
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Erratum: “Orbits of central force law potentials” [Am. J. Phys. 73 (1), 40–44 (2005)]
Charles P. Poole, Jr.; John L. Safko; Horacio A. Farach
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1081 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1900103
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APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES

On power supplies used for laboratory demonstration of chaotic electronic oscillators
Prodyot Kumar Roy; Arijit Basuray; Emanuel Gluskin
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1082–1085 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1900100
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BOOK REVIEWS

A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein.
Hans Christian von Baeyer
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1086–1087 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2076487
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BOOKS RECEIVED
Am. J. Phys. 73, 1088 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2104553
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