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Volume 78, Issue 4
April 2010
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909
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GUEST COMMENT

Econophysics and economics: Sister disciplines?
Christophe Schinckus
Am. J. Phys. 78, 325–327 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3309424
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AWARDS

Millikan Lecture 2009: Physics for all: From special needs to Olympiads
Arthur Eisenkraft
Am. J. Phys. 78, 328–337 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3293130
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PAPERS

Resource Letter FC-1: The physics of fundamental constants
Peter J. Mohr; David B. Newell
Am. J. Phys. 78, 338–358 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3279700
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Estimation of the power of greenhouse gases on the basis of absorption spectra
Akira Tomizuka
Am. J. Phys. 78, 359–366 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3280233
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Supplementary Material
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A primer on the carbon cycle
Guido Fano
Am. J. Phys. 78, 367–376 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3298429
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The equivalence principle, uniformly accelerated reference frames, and the uniform gravitational field
Gerardo Muñoz; Preston Jones
Am. J. Phys. 78, 377–383 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3272719
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A mechanical device to study geometric phases and curvatures
Salvador Gil
Am. J. Phys. 78, 384–390 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3319651
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Abraham–Lorentz versus Landau–Lifshitz
David J. Griffiths; Thomas C. Proctor; Darrell F. Schroeter
Am. J. Phys. 78, 391–402 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3269900
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Modification of Coulomb’s law in closed spaces
Pouria Pedram
Am. J. Phys. 78, 403–406 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3272020
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Numerical approach to the Schrödinger equation in momentum space
William A. Karr; Christopher R. Jamell; Yogesh N. Joglekar
Am. J. Phys. 78, 407–411 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3272021
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Resonant states and transmission coefficient oscillations for potential wells and barriers
A. Uma Maheswari; P. Prema; C. S. Shastry
Am. J. Phys. 78, 412–417 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3276053
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Studying the scattering length by varying the depth of the potential well
Zafar Ahmed
Am. J. Phys. 78, 418–421 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3279730
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Renormalization group solution of the harmonic oscillator
D. K. Sunko
Am. J. Phys. 78, 422–427 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3280231
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On the classical analysis of spin-orbit coupling in hydrogenlike atoms
A. L. Kholmetskii; O. V. Missevitch; T. Yarman
Am. J. Phys. 78, 428–432 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3277052
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Investigating viscous damping using a webcam
Sohaib Shamim; Wasif Zia; Muhammad Sabieh Anwar
Am. J. Phys. 78, 433–436 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3298370
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Viscoelastic behavior of a mass-rubber band oscillator
A. Filipponi; L. Di Michele; C. Ferrante
Am. J. Phys. 78, 437–444 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3276052
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BOOK REVIEWS

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Alan Hirshfeld
Am. J. Phys. 78, 445–446 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3275962
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A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
Aimee C. E. Slaughter
Am. J. Phys. 78, 446–447 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3276711
View articletitled, <em>A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age</em>
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Kurt Gottfried
Am. J. Phys. 78, 447–448 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3302834
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BOOKS RECEIVED
Am. J. Phys. 78, 448 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3353203
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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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