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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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The right way to introduce complex numbers in damped harmonic oscillators

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Jason Tran, Leanne Doughty, James K. Freericks
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 93, 437–440 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0220797
Published: May 2025
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Jesse Kinder, Claire A. Marrache-Kikuchi, Beth Parks, B. Cameron Reed, Todd Springer, Keith Zengel
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 93, 285–286 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0267685
Published: April 2025
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A derivation of precessional effects in the Foucault pendulum using complex numbers

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Morgan Facchin
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 93, 308–313 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0237736
Published: April 2025
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Ergodic Lagrangian dynamics in a superhero universe

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I. L. Tregillis, George R. R. Martin
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 93, 127–136 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0228859
Published: February 2025
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A glimpse of matrix mechanics via the harmonic oscillator

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Elina Palmgren, Ricardo Karam
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 93, 21–27 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0141573
Published: January 2025
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Jesse Kinder, Beth Parks, Donald Salisbury, Todd Springer, Keith Zengel
Keith Zengel
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 905–906 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0245536
Published: December 2024
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Exact solutions for the inverse problem of the time-independent Schrödinger equation

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Bhavika Bhalgamiya, Mark A. Novotny
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 975–979 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0172824
Published: December 2024
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John Essick, Jesse Kinder, Claire A. Marrache-Kikuchi, Beth Parks, B. Cameron Reed, Todd Springer
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Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 825–826 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0240446
Published: November 2024
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What is a degree of freedom? Configuration spaces and their topology

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Juan Margalef-Bentabol, D. Leigh Herman, Ivan Booth
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 743–751 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0151379
Published: October 2024
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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

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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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Quantum versus classical quenches and the broadening of wave packets

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K. Schönhammer
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 466–472 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0174441
Published: June 2024
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Statistical physics of frictional grains: Some simple applications of the Edwards statistics

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Eric Bertin
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 375–384 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0094141
Published: May 2024
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Employing an operator form of the Rodrigues formula to calculate wavefunctions without differential equations

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Joseph R. Noonan, Maaz ur Rehman Shah, Luogen Xu, James K. Freericks
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 270–279 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0177925
Published: April 2024
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The uncertainty principle and quantum wave functions that are their own Fourier transforms

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Keith Zengel, Nick DeVitto, Nathanael Hillyer, Jeffrey Rodden, Vinh Vu
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 189–196 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0162363
Published: March 2024
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Expanding the range of validity of the simplest computation of the perihelion precession in Schwarzschild spacetime

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Josep M. Pons
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 23–28 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0136332
Published: January 2024
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Leading quantum correction to the classical free energy

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Markus Deserno, O. Teoman Turgut
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 91, 923–931 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0106687
Published: November 2023
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Joseph C. Amato, Harvey Gould, Jesse Kinder, Raina Olsen, Beth Parks, B. Cameron Reed, Todd Springer, Jan Tobochnik
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 91, 761–762 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0173606
Published: October 2023
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Complementarity and entanglement in a simple model of inelastic scattering

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David Kordahl
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 91, 796–804 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0141389
Published: October 2023
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