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March 1998
ISSN 0031-921X
EISSN 1943-4928
Letters to the Editor
AAPT Awards
Editorial
Articles
Planar motion, complex numbers, and falling leaves: An intriguing minilab
Phys. Teach. 36, 135–138 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879984
How Things Work
Notes
Mars global surveyor aerobraking. A collaborative team approach in the physics classroom
Phys. Teach. 36, 154–156 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879988
Accuracy of global positioning system receivers
Phys. Teach. 36, 158–160 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879990
Does an ideal wheel really rotate about its instantaneous point of contact?
Phys. Teach. 36, 167–170 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879993
The one-dimensional elastic-collision equation:
Phys. Teach. 36, 186 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.880000
Figuring Physics
Apparatus for Teaching Physics
Physics Trick of the Month
Book Reviews
Basic Astronomy Labs, by Jay S. Heubner, Michael D. Reynolds, and Terry L. Smith
Phys. Teach. 36, 188 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.880001
In My Opinion
A “Perpetual Motion Machine” Powered by Electromagnetism
Hollis Williams
Sauntering Sauropods: The Preferred Walking Speeds of the Largest Land Animals That Ever Lived
Scott A. Lee, Justyna Slowiak
Jack Reacher and the Deployment of an Airbag
Gregory A. DiLisi, Richard A. Rarick