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Volume 86, Issue 10
October 2018
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ISSN 0002-9505
EISSN 1943-2909

GUEST EDITORIAL

Education and public outreach as an integral part of a scientist's career
Or Graur
Am. J. Phys. 86, 725–726 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5052428
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PAPERS

Radiation of the electromagnetic field beyond the dipole approximation Editor’s Pick
Andrij Rovenchak; Yuri Krynytskyi
Am. J. Phys. 86, 727–732 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5052427
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Water bottle flipping physics Editor’s PickVideo Abstracts
P. J. Dekker; L. A. G. Eek; M. M. Flapper; H. J. C. Horstink; A. R. Meulenkamp; J. van der Meulen; E. S. Kooij; J. H. Snoeijer; A. Marin
Am. J. Phys. 86, 733–739 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5052441
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Introduction to semiconductor processing: Fabrication and characterization of p-n junction silicon solar cells
Ryan P. Smith; Angela An-Chi Hwang; Tobias Beetz; Erik Helgren
Am. J. Phys. 86, 740–746 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5046424
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“Relativistic” particle dynamics without relativity
Allan Walstad
Am. J. Phys. 86, 747–749 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5049812
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Airy wavepackets are Perelomov coherent states
Vivek M. Vyas
Am. J. Phys. 86, 750–754 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5051181
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An acoustical analogue of a galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector
Michael T. Lam; Joseph D. Romano; Joey S. Key; Marc Normandin; Jeffrey S. Hazboun
Am. J. Phys. 86, 755–764 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5050190
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Newton's graphical method for central force orbits
Michael Nauenberg
Am. J. Phys. 86, 765–771 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5050620
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COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Random sequential adsorption and its long-time limit
G. Zhang
Am. J. Phys. 86, 772–776 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5049954
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PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH

Facilitating understanding of image formation through the luminous ray model mediated by virtual simulation
Hong-Syuan Wang; Sufen Chen; Miao-Hsuan Yen
Am. J. Phys. 86, 777–785 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5052447
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NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

Erratum: “The thermodynamic efficiency of heat engines with friction” [Am. J. Phys. 80, 298–305 (2012)]
João P. S. Bizarro
Am. J. Phys. 86, 786 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5049354
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Erratum: Perturbation approximation for orbits in axially symmetric funnels [Am. J. Phys. 82, 1047 (2014)]
Michael Nauenberg
Am. J. Phys. 86, 786 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5053111
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APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES

Capacitance-voltage profiling of MOS capacitors: A case study of hands-on semiconductor testing for an undergraduate laboratory Featured
J. Joy; M. P. Date; B. M. Arora; K. L. Narasimhan; S. Tallur
Am. J. Phys. 86, 787–796 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5052360
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BOOK REVIEWS

Einstein's Mass-Energy Equation, Volume I: Early History and Philosophical Foundations
Eugene Hecht
Am. J. Phys. 86, 797–800 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5052425
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BOOKS RECEIVED
Am. J. Phys. 86, 800 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5052353
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Charles H. Lineweaver, Vihan M. Patel
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Bhavika Bhalgamiya, Mark A. Novotny
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