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Volume 79, Issue 4
April 2011
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LET’S TALK TERAHERTZ!
R. A. Lewis
Am. J. Phys. 79, 341 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3533272
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AN UPPER BOUND
Jeremy Bernstein
Am. J. Phys. 79, 341 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3559499
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PAPERS

How physicists disagree on the meaning of entropy
Robert H. Swendsen
Am. J. Phys. 79, 342–348 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3536633
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Demonstration of negative refraction of microwaves
Maria C. Velazquez-Ahumada; Manuel J. Freire; Jose M. Algarin; Ricardo Marques
Am. J. Phys. 79, 349–352 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3537122
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Optimizing Thomson’s jumping ring
Paul J. H. Tjossem; Elizabeth C. Brost
Am. J. Phys. 79, 353–358 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3531946
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Stretching and folding versus cutting and shuffling: An illustrated perspective on mixing and deformations of continua
Ivan C. Christov; Richard M. Lueptow; Julio M. Ottino
Am. J. Phys. 79, 359–367 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3533213
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Vernier scales and other early devices for precise measurement
Alistair Kwan
Am. J. Phys. 79, 368–373 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3533717
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The Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program: Recognizing, enlisting, and cultivating unrealized or unrecognized potential in underrepresented minority students
Keivan G. Stassun; Susan Sturm; Kelly Holley-Bockelmann; Arnold Burger; David J. Ernst; Donna Webb
Am. J. Phys. 79, 374–379 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3546069
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Why do forces add vectorially? A forgotten controversy in the foundations of classical mechanics
Marc Lange
Am. J. Phys. 79, 380–388 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3534836
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In-plane sensitive electronic speckle pattern interferometer using a diffractive holographic optical element
Raghavendra Jallapuram; Con Healy; Emilia Mihaylova; Vincent Toal
Am. J. Phys. 79, 389–391 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3533432
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Quantum mechanics of a free particle from properties of the Dirac delta function
Denys I. Bondar; Robert R. Lompay; Wing-Ki Liu
Am. J. Phys. 79, 392–394 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3533715
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Instability of a constrained pendulum system
Prashanth Ramachandran; Srinivas Gopal Krishna; Y. M. Ram
Am. J. Phys. 79, 395–400 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3535583
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Acoustic scattering from a spherical lens irradiated by a finite transducer: Focusing effect and refraction
Miguel A. Parrales Borrero; Miguel Pérez-Saborid; Juan M. Fernández García
Am. J. Phys. 79, 401–408 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3546092
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A formal interpretation of the displacement current and the instantaneous formulation of Maxwell’s equations
José A. Heras
Am. J. Phys. 79, 409–416 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3533223
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The vibrating inhomogeneous string
George Rawitscher; Jakob Liss
Am. J. Phys. 79, 417–427 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3534837
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APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES

Measuring the molecular polarizability of air
M. J. Madsen; D. R. Brown; S. R. Krutz; M. J. Milliman
Am. J. Phys. 79, 428–430 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3533354
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BOOK REVIEWS

Statistical and Thermal Physics with Computer Applications
Don S. Lemons
Am. J. Phys. 79, 431–432 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3545813
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BOOKS RECEIVED
Am. J. Phys. 79, 432 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3562539
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A simple Minkowskian time-travel spacetime
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All objects and some questions
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Kepler's Moon puzzle—A historical context for pinhole imaging
Thomas Quick, Johannes Grebe-Ellis
The surprising subtlety of electrostatic field lines
Kevin Zhou, Tomáš Brauner
An undergraduate lab experiment on matched filtering as used in gravitational wave detection
Michael Daam, Antje Bergmann, et al.
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