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Volume 83, Issue 2
February 2015
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

GUEST COMMENT

A role for physicists in STEM education reform
Hestenes David
Am. J. Phys. 83, 101–103 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4904763
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PAPERS

Scanning capacitance microscopy using a relaxation oscillator
M. Pahlmeyer; A. Hankins; S. Tuppan; W. J. Kim
Am. J. Phys. 83, 104–109 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4899045
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Magic mass ratios of complete energy-momentum transfer in one-dimensional elastic three-body collisions
June-Haak Ee; Jungil Lee
Am. J. Phys. 83, 110–120 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4897162
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The physical origin of torque and of the rotational second law
Daniel J. Cross
Am. J. Phys. 83, 121–125 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4896574
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Particle sliding on a turntable in the presence of friction
Akshat Agha; Sahil Gupta; Toby Joseph
Am. J. Phys. 83, 126–132 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4896664
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Dynamics of a Levitron under a periodic magnetic forcing
Alberto T. Pérez; Pablo García-Sánchez
Am. J. Phys. 83, 133–142 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4895800
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Experimental method to characterize the retardance function of optical variable retarders
Juan M. López-Téllez; Neil C. Bruce; Jesús Delgado-Aguillón; Jesús Garduño-Mejía; Maximino Avendaño-Alejo
Am. J. Phys. 83, 143–149 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4896078
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The van der Waals interaction in one, two, and three dimensions
A. C. Ipsen; K. Splittorff
Am. J. Phys. 83, 150–155 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4896248
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Casimir effect from a scattering approach
Gert-Ludwig Ingold; Astrid Lambrecht
Am. J. Phys. 83, 156–162 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4896197
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Gibbs, Boltzmann, and negative temperatures
Daan Frenkel; Patrick B. Warren
Am. J. Phys. 83, 163–170 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4895828
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PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH

Research as a guide for curriculum development: An example from introductory spectroscopy. II. Addressing student difficulties with atomic emission spectra
L. Ivanjek; P. S. Shaffer; L. C. McDermott; M. Planinic; D. Veza
Am. J. Phys. 83, 171–178 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4902222
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NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Faraday's first dynamo: An alternate analysis
José Arnaldo Redinz
Am. J. Phys. 83, 179–182 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4896183
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On an early proposal for a unified system of units
Kenneth S. Mendelson
Am. J. Phys. 83, 183–185 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4896353
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Erratum: “Applying the principle of angular momentum to constrained systems of point masses” [Am. J. Phys. 82, 165–168 (2014)]
James Casey
Am. J. Phys. 83, 185 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4904761
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APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES

A low-cost mirror mount control system for optics setups
Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan; Markus Gühr
Am. J. Phys. 83, 186–190 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4895343
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CHORUS

BOOK REVIEWS

A Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark Matter
Robert J. Sciamanda
Am. J. Phys. 83, 191 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4896585
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BOOKS RECEIVED
Am. J. Phys. 83, 191–192 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4905115
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Charles H. Lineweaver, Vihan M. Patel
Exact solutions for the inverse problem of the time-independent Schrödinger equation
Bhavika Bhalgamiya, Mark A. Novotny
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