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N-body linear force law allowing analytic solutions

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Joseph West, Sean P. Bartz
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 93, 376–381 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0226894
Published: May 2025
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Temperature as joules per bit

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Charles Alexandre Bédard, Sophie Berthelette, Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Stefan Wolf
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 93, 390–395 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0198820
Published: May 2025
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Entropy production diagrams

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Ramandeep S. Johal
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 647 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0226811
Published: September 2024
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Comment on “Which is greater: e π or πe? An unorthodox physical solution to a classic puzzle” [Am. J. Phys. 92 (5), 397–398 (2024)]

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Roderick M. Macrae
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 717–718 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0221403
Published: September 2024
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Event-based analysis of convergence to energy equipartition

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Arnaldo Spalvieri
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 210–213 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0142173
Published: March 2024
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Thermal damping of the motion of a piston: Any irreversibility implies dissipation

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David S. Corti, Joshua A. Ciesar, Juan M. Vazquez
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 214–220 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0166800
Published: March 2024
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In this issue: January 2024

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John Essick, Harvey Gould, Claire A. Marrache-Kikuchi, Raina Olsen, Beth Parks, B. Cameron Reed, Donald Salisbury, Jan Tobochnik
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 5–6 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0189551
Published: January 2024
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Comment on “Thermodynamics of Benford's first digit law” [Am. J. Phys. 87 , 787–790 (2019)]

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Xi-Jun Ren
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 91, 559–560 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0149874
Published: July 2023
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The law of entropy increase for bodies in mutual thermal contact

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Ramandeep S. Johal
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 91, 79–80 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0124068
Published: January 2023
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Causality, determinism, and physics

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Julio Gea-Banacloche
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 90, 809–816 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0087017
Published: November 2022
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Thermal equilibrium of an ideal gas in a free-floating box

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Scott Tremaine, Bence Kocsis, Abraham Loeb
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 89, 789–792 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0004955
Published: August 2021
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Equilibrium probability distribution for number of bound receptor-ligand complexes

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Tuhin Chakrabortty, Manoj M. Varma
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 89, 41–50 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0001898
Published: January 2021
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A simplified treatment of neutron slowing by elastic collisions

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B. Cameron Reed
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 88, 871–873 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0001629
Published: October 2020
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Image-charge effects on an electrostatic pendulum in mechanical equilibrium

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D. S. Goodman, R. D. Fischetti, A. Hodges, H. A. Tekalp
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 88, 222–228 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0000302
Published: March 2020
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Airy wavepackets are Perelomov coherent states

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Vivek M. Vyas
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 750–754 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5051181
Published: October 2018
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New strategy for the Puluj-type experiment

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Tiberius O. Cheche
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 670–677 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5046955
Published: September 2018
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Reversible and irreversible heat engine and refrigerator cycles

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Harvey S. Leff
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 344–353 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5020985
Published: May 2018
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User's guide to Monte Carlo methods for evaluating path integrals

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Marise J. E. Westbroek, Peter R. King, Dimitri D. Vvedensky, Stephan Dürr
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 293–304 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5024926
Published: April 2018
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Two famous results of Einstein derived from the Jarzynski equality

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Fred Gittes
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 31–35 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5003009
Published: January 2018
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Not all counterclockwise thermodynamic cycles are refrigerators’” [Am. J. Phys. 85 , 861–863 (2017)]

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R. H. Dickerson, J. Mottmann
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 85, 864–865 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5005929
Published: November 2017
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