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From sucking worms to Windkessel: The physics of an early eighteenth century firefighting device

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Don S. Lemons, Trevor C. Lipscombe
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 87–92 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0147573
Published: February 2024
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Adiabatic invariance and its application to Wien's complete displacement law of blackbody radiation

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Don S. Lemons, William R. Shanahan
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 92, 132–139 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0158187
Published: February 2024
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Vertical quasistatic Poiseuille flow: Theory and experiment

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Don S. Lemons, Trevor C. Lipsombe, Rickey J. Faehl
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 90, 59–63 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0006245
Published: January 2022
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Focused writing in the introductory physics laboratory

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Don S. Lemons
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 89, 907 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0067104
Published: October 2021
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Of balls, bladders, and balloons: The time required to deflate an elastic sphere

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Don S. Lemons, Trevor C. Lipscombe
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 89, 80–83 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0001998
Published: January 2021
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Thermodynamics of Benford's first digit law

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Don S. Lemons
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 87, 787–790 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5116005
Published: October 2019
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Advances in Thermodynamics of the van der Waals Fluid

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Don S. Lemons
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 83, 573 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4906822
Published: June 2015
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Pitch angle scattering of relativistic electrons from stationary magnetic waves: Continuous Markov process and quasilinear theory

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Don S. Lemons
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 19, 012306 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3676156
Published: January 2012
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Statistical and Thermal Physics with Computer Applications

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Don S. Lemons
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 79, 431–432 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3545813
Published: April 2011
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Stochastic analysis of pitch angle scattering of charged particles by transverse magnetic waves

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Don S. Lemons, Kaijun Liu, Dan Winske, S. Peter Gary
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 16, 112306 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3264738
Published: November 2009
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A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations

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Don S. Lemons
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 77, 1086 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3133085
Published: November 2009
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Sadi Carnot’s contribution to the second law of thermodynamics

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Don S. Lemons, Margaret K. Penner
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 76, 21–25 (2008)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2794346
Published: January 2008
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An Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Physics

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Don S. Lemons, Vinay Ambegaokar
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 71, 191 (2003)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1526134
Published: February 2003
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Comment on “The shape of ‘the Spandex’ and the orbits upon its surface,” by Gary D. White and Michael Walker [Am. J. Phys.  70 (1), 48–52 (2002)]

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Don S. Lemons, T. C. Lipscombe
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 70, 1056–1058 (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1495410
Published: October 2002
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The shape of a randomly lying cord

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Don S. Lemons, T. C. Lipscombe
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 70, 570–574 (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1475327
Published: June 2002
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Quiet direct simulation of plasmas

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B. J. Albright, W. Daughton, Don S. Lemons, Dan Winske, Michael E. Jones
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Phys. Plasmas 9, 1898–1904 (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1452732
Published: May 2002
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Thermodynamics of high temperature, Mie–Gruneisen solids

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Don S. Lemons, Carl M. Lund
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 67, 1105–1108 (1999)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19091
Published: December 1999
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Perfect Form: Variational Principles, Methods, and Applications in Elementary Physics.

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Don S. Lemons, Robert Weinstock
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 66, 935 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18996
Published: October 1998
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Perfect Form: Variational Principles, Methods, and Applications in Elementary Physics

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Don S. Lemons, Paul E. Barbone
Journal: Physics Today
Physics Today 51, 68–70 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882304
Published: July 1998
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Paul Langevin’s 1908 paper “On the Theory of Brownian Motion” [“Sur la théorie du mouvement brownien,” C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 146 , 530–533 (1908)]

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Don S. Lemons, Anthony Gythiel
Journal: American Journal of Physics
Am. J. Phys. 65, 1079–1081 (1997)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.18725
Published: November 1997
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