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In this issue: September 2024

Mario Belloni, John Essick, Beth Parks, B. Cameron Reed, Todd Springer, Keith Zengel
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 645–646 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0230218
Published: September 2024
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Probing coherent phonons in the advanced undergraduate laboratory

Nicholas J. Brennan, Joseph Peidle, Anna Wang-Holtzen, Jieping Fang, Kathryn Ledbetter, Matteo Mitrano
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 693–702 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0190019
Published: September 2024
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Why pushing a bell does not produce a sound

Loris Ferrari
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 87, 901–909 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5124976
Published: November 2019
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Damped harmonic oscillation: Linear or quadratic drag force?

R. Hauko, R. Repnik
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 87, 910–914 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5124978
Published: November 2019
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The forced harmonic oscillator: Coherent states and the RWA

L. O. Castaños, A. Zuñiga-Segundo
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 87, 815–823 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5115395
Published: October 2019
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Acceleration discontinuities in dry-friction oscillations

Christopher Isaac Larnder
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 87, 784 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5123455
Published: October 2019
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The hardwall method of solving the radial Schrödinger equation and unmasking hidden symmetries

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Siu A. Chin, John Massey
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 87, 682–686 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5111839
Published: August 2019
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Nonlinear effect of forced harmonic oscillator subject to sliding friction and simulation by a simple nonlinear circuit

Qian Xu, Wenkai Fan, Yao Luo, Sihui Wang, Hongjian Jiang
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 87, 116–124 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5082534
Published: February 2019
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Energy conservation in explicit solutions as a simple illustration of Noether's theorem

Markus Pössel
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 87, 141–143 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5086003
Published: February 2019
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Airy wavepackets are Perelomov coherent states

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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Teaching of the harmonic oscillator damped by a constant force: The use of analogy and experiments

R. Hauko, D. Andreevski, D. Paul, M. Šterk, R. Repnik
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 657–662 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5044654
Published: September 2018
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An experimental demonstration of avoided crossings with masses on springs

Andrew B. Lockhart, Alexandria Skinner, William Newman, Daniel B. Steinwachs, Shawn A. Hilbert
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 526–530 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5036752
Published: July 2018
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User's guide to Monte Carlo methods for evaluating path integrals

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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Every isochronous potential is shear-equivalent to a harmonic potential

Daniel J. Cross
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 198–200 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5019025
Published: March 2018
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Self-focusing quantum states

Anthony Allan D. Villanueva
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 126–134 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5009921
Published: February 2018
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Harmonic oscillator thermal density matrix: First-order differential equations for the position representation

L. F. Barragán-Gil, R. Walser
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 86, 22–24 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5008268
Published: January 2018
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Variational approach to the soft-Coulomb potential in low-dimensional quantum systems

Federico Grasselli
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 85, 834–839 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4994809
Published: November 2017
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Solutions of the Schroedinger equation for piecewise harmonic potentials: Remarks on the asymptotic behavior of the wave functions

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Francisco D. Mazzitelli, Martín D. Mazzitelli, Pedro I. Soubelet
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 85, 750–756 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4994808
Published: October 2017
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Two and three particles interacting in a one-dimensional trap

MengXing Na, Frank Marsiglio
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 85, 769–782 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4985063
Published: October 2017
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The variational-relaxation algorithm for finding quantum bound states

Daniel V. Schroeder
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 85, 698–704 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4997165
Published: September 2017
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