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Volume 77, Issue 8
August 2009
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Diet soda and liquid nitrogen
Bart H. McGuyer; Justin M. Brown; Hoan B. Dang
Am. J. Phys. 77, 677 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3139531
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Newton and Newton’s third law
Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr.
Am. J. Phys. 77, 677 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3147210
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PAPERS

Analysis of standing sound waves using holographic interferometry
Daniel A. Russell; David E. Parker; Russell S. Hughes
Am. J. Phys. 77, 678–682 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3147683
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The Planck mass and the Chandrasekhar limit
David Garfinkle
Am. J. Phys. 77, 683–687 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3110884
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The kinematic origin of the cosmological redshift
Emory F. Bunn; David W. Hogg
Am. J. Phys. 77, 688–694 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3129103
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Nonconvergence of the Ehrenfest thought experiment
C. R. MacCluer
Am. J. Phys. 77, 695–696 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3130022
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Spectroscopy applied to observations of terrestrial light sources of uncertain origin
Karl D. Stephan; Sagar Ghimire; William A. Stapleton; James Bunnell
Am. J. Phys. 77, 697–703 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3130609
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Optical tweezers for undergraduates: Theoretical analysis and experiments
M. S. Rocha
Am. J. Phys. 77, 704–712 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3138698
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First- and second-order Poisson spots
William R. Kelly; Eric L. Shirley; Alan L. Migdall; Sergey V. Polyakov; Kurt Hendrix
Am. J. Phys. 77, 713–720 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3119181
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Supplementary Material
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The field concept in Ampère’s magnetostatics
Artice M. Davis
Am. J. Phys. 77, 721–729 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3116090
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A brief primer on tamped fission-bomb cores
B. Cameron Reed
Am. J. Phys. 77, 730–733 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3125008
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Particle in a box with a δ-function potential: Strong and weak coupling limits
Yogesh N. Joglekar
Am. J. Phys. 77, 734–736 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3119178
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Understanding the focusing of charged particle beams in a solenoid magnetic field
Vinit Kumar
Am. J. Phys. 77, 737–741 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3129242
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A modified time-dependent perturbation approach to quantum dynamics and its application to relaxation phenomena in magnetic molecules
C. A. Dartora; G. G. Cabrera; K. Z. Nobrega
Am. J. Phys. 77, 742–745 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3133088
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PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH

What course elements correlate with improvement on tests in introductory Newtonian mechanics?
Elsa-Sofia Morote; David E. Pritchard
Am. J. Phys. 77, 746–753 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3139533
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NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Comment on “Can Maxwell’s equations be obtained from the continuity equation?” by J. A. Heras [Am. J. Phys. 75, 652–657 (2007)]
Edward Kapuscik
Am. J. Phys. 77, 754 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3039030
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Can Maxwell’s equations be obtained from the continuity equation?,’” by E. Kapuscik [
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José A. Heras
Am. J. Phys. 77, 755–756 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3039031
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APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES

Experimental special relativity with a meter stick and a clock
M. Lund; U. I. Uggerhøj
Am. J. Phys. 77, 757–761 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3049532
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Observation of standing light wave by using fluorescence from a polymer thin film and diffuse reflection from a glass surface: Revisiting Wiener’s experiment
Min Sung Kim; Byeong Joo Kim; Hwan Hong Lim; Myoungsik Cha
Am. J. Phys. 77, 761–764 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3027506
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Construction of a simple spherical air bearing
M. F. Masters; C. Reynolds; H. Suedhoff; F. M. DeArmond
Am. J. Phys. 77, 764–766 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3050161
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BOOK REVIEWS

Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl
David C. Montgomery
Am. J. Phys. 77, 767–768 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3152954
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BOOKS RECEIVED
Am. J. Phys. 77, 768 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3167550
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