American journal of physics

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  Año 2006, Número 9

  • ON PAST AND PRESENT SCIENTIFIC "MUMBO-JUMBO"

    Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

    pág. 757

    

  • THE PERRIN EXPERIMENT

    pág. 757

    

  • Preparing K-12 teachers in physics: Insights from history, experience, and research

    Lillian C. McDermott

    págs. 758-762

    

  • Improving the preparation of K-12 teachers through physics education research

    MacKenzie R. Stetzer, Paula R. L. Heron, Peter S. Shaffer, Lillian C. McDermott

    págs. 763-767

    

  • Using a digital camera as a measuring device

    Salvador Gil, Eduardo E. Rodriguez, Hernán D. Reisin

    págs. 768-775

    

  • The motion of a freely falling chain tip

    W. Tomaszewski, J.-C. Geminard, P. Pieranski

    págs. 776-783

    

  • Toy models: The jumping pendulum

    Alain Goriely, Philippe Boulanger, Jules Leroy

    págs. 784-788

    

  • Catastrophic bolide impacts on the Earth: Some estimates

    Julio Gratton, Carlos Alberto Perazzo

    págs. 789-793

    

  • On visualizing crystal lattice planes

    P. K. Aravind

    págs. 794-799

    

  • Staging quantum cryptography with chocolate balls

    Karl Svozil

    págs. 800-803

    

  • Elementary model of sprite igniting electric fields

    Martin Fullekrug

    págs. 804-805

    

  • Magnetically coupled rotors

    Tiara Norris, Eric Ayars, Brendan Diamond

    págs. 806-808

    

  • Inference of magnetospheric currents from multipoint magnetic field measurements

    James A. van Allen

    págs. 809-814

    

  • Electromagnetic braking: A simple quantitative model

    Felipe B. Rizzato, Fernando L. da Silveira, Yan Levin

    págs. 815-817

    

  • Dismissing renewed attempts to deny Einstein the discovery of special relativity

    Roger Cerf

    págs. 818-824

    

  • From an idea to a vision: There's plenty of room at the bottom

    Falk Riess, Andreas Junk

    págs. 825-830

    

  • Quantum fractal superlattices

    Josefa Marín Fernández, Juan Antonio Monsoriu Serra, Llúcia Monreal Mengual, Francisco Román Villatoro Machuca, Jezabel Pérez Quiles

    págs. 831-836

    

  • Comment on "Quantum harmonic oscillator revisited: A Fourier transform approach" by S. A. Ponomarenko [Am. J. Phys. 72 (9), 1259-1260 (2004)]

    Andreas Engel

    pág. 837

    

  • Relativistic addition of parallel velocities from Lorentz contraction and time dilation

    Aleksandar Gjurchinovski

    págs. 838-839

    

  • The period of a pendulum in a uniformly accelerating reference frame

    David R. Rowland

    pág. 839

    

  • Reply to "Comment on 'Snell's law from an elementary particle viewpoint," by José-Philippe Perez [Am. J. Phys. 74 (9), 840-840 (2006)]

    A. Widom, D. Drosdoff

    págs. 840-841

    

  • Comment on "Snell's law from an elementary particle viewpoint," by D. Drosdoff and A. Widom [Am. J. Phys. 73 (10), 973-975 (2005)]

    José Philippe Pérez

    pág. 840

    

  • Erratum: "Research-inspired problems for electricity and magnetism" [Am. J. Phys. 74 (4), 351-354 (2006)]

    Beth Parks

    pág. 841

    

  • Fourier spectroscopy of ultrashort laser pulses

    J. Peatross, S. D. Bergeson

    págs. 842-845

    

  • APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES

    Jeffrey Dunham

    pág. 842

    

  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics-The Complete Audio Collection (20 volumes)

    Steven T. Ratliff

    págs. 846-847

    

  • BOOKS RECEIVED

    pág. 848