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Volume 36, Issue 8
November 1998
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ISSN 0031-921X
EISSN 1943-4928

Letters to the Editor

Misconceptions or ignorance?
Poovan Murugesan
Phys. Teach. 36, 452 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879920
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From under the bleachers
Kirk Bailey
Phys. Teach. 36, 452 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879921
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“Intuitively obvious”?
A. P. French
Phys. Teach. 36, 453 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879922
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Tindle responds
Chris Tindle
Phys. Teach. 36, 454 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879923
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Physics should be physics
William DeBuvitz
Phys. Teach. 36, 454 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879924
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Thermodynamics concepts inventory?
Volker Thomsen
Phys. Teach. 36, 454 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879925
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Editorial

Trinity sure—II
Clifford E. Swartz
Phys. Teach. 36, 456 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879926
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Articles

Flight without Bernoulli
Chris Waltham
Phys. Teach. 36, 457–462 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879927
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Making waves: A classroom torsional wave machine (Part II)
Kenneth D. Skeldon; Janet E. Milne; Alastair I. Grant; David A. Palmer
Phys. Teach. 36, 466–472 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879929
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A different twist on the Lorentz force and Faraday’s law
Bill Layton; Martin Simon
Phys. Teach. 36, 474–479 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879930
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Notes

Measuring the coefficient of friction of a low-friction cart
Roger F. Larson
Phys. Teach. 36, 464–465 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879928
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Images of the Seattle Space Needle in raindrops
David R. Lapp; Ben Bristow
Phys. Teach. 36, 480 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.880121
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Vectortine’s Day
Frank Lock
Phys. Teach. 36, 481 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879931
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Solitons
Ron Edge
Phys. Teach. 36, 483–485 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879932
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Do they stay fixed?
Gregory E. Francis; Jeffrey P. Adams; Elizabeth J. Noonan
Phys. Teach. 36, 488–490 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879933
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Pictorial representation of torque and rotational inertia
Robert W. Bird
Phys. Teach. 36, 492 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879935
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The Rosse telescope
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr.
Phys. Teach. 36, 493–495 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879936
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Finite rotations
Oscar Bolina; J. A. da Silva Neto
Phys. Teach. 36, 496–497 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879944
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Newton’s second law for multi-particle systems
Ronald L. Greene
Phys. Teach. 36, 500 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879938
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Playing with bubbles
Gordon R. Gore
Phys. Teach. 36, 502 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1527621
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PSSC’s Science Study Series
Robert J. Whitaker
Phys. Teach. 36, 503–506 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879940
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Period and amplitude
Russell Akridge
Phys. Teach. 36, 507–508 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879941
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Sneezing, pixel spacing, and geometric optics
Andreas Müller
Phys. Teach. 36, 509–511 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879942
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A cool(ing) idea
Takao Takeuchi
Phys. Teach. 36, 512 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879943
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Physics Olympics

Slow balloon race
Karen Bouffard
Phys. Teach. 36, 482 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.880122
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Figuring Physics

Golf balls in stable equilibrium
Paul Hewitt
Phys. Teach. 36, 486 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1527620
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Trick of the Trade

The disappearing student
Andrew DePino, Jr.
Phys. Teach. 36, 491 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879934
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Apparatus for Teaching Physics

Build your own soliton generator
Antônio B. Nassar
Phys. Teach. 36, 498–499 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879937
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Book Reviews

Birth of the information age, by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson
David P. Koch
Phys. Teach. 36, 501 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879945
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The secret recordings at Farm Hall, by Jeremy Bernstein
Peter K. Glanz
Phys. Teach. 36, 502 (1998) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.879939
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A Simple and Cost-Effective Fluid Dynamics Apparatus to Engage Students in the Classroom and Laboratory
David James Horne, Lily Zheng, et al.
A “Perpetual Motion Machine” Powered by Electromagnetism
Hollis Williams
Direct Observations and Measurements of Single Atoms
Natascha Hedrich, Ilia Sergachev, et al.
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