American journal of physics

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  Año 2005, Número 11

  • Why relatively few choose physics: A view from inside the pipeline

    George C. Whittemore

    págs. 997-998

    

  • ASTRONOMY EDUCATION RESEARCH

    Jay Pasachoff

    pág. 997

    

  • Max Born and the quantum theory

    Jeremy Bernstein

    págs. 999-1008

    

  • Sarah Frances Whiting: A foremother of American women physicists

    Frieda A. Stahl

    págs. 1009-1013

    

  • Macroscopic coherence effects in a mesoscopic system: Weak localization of thin silver films

    M. Koesters, K. G. Libbrecht, A. D. Beyer, E. D. Black

    págs. 1014-1019

    

  • Weight-controlled capillary viscometer

    M. Reiner, Rafael M. Digilov

    págs. 1020-1022

    

  • Using retrograde motion to understand and determine orbital parameters

    Bruce G. Thompson

    págs. 1023-1029

    

  • Always introduce the celestial sphere with a companion Earth-Sun figure

    N. M. Duller

    págs. 1030-1032

    

  • Study of the Pioneer anomaly: A problem set

    Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Martin Nieto, John D. Anderson

    págs. 1033-1044

    

  • Why does water change the pitch of a singing wineglass the way it does?

    págs. 1045-1049

    

  • Model study of the Landau--Zener approximation

    Nathan D. Aragon, Sydney Geltman

    págs. 1050-1054

    

  • Student understanding of the ideal gas law, Part I: A macroscopic perspective

    Lillian C. McDermott, Paula R. L. Heron, Michael E. Loverude, Christian H. Kautz

    págs. 1055-1063

    

  • Student understanding of the ideal gas law, Part II: A microscopic perspective

    Christian H. Kautz, Paula R. L. Heron, Peter S. Shaffer, Lillian C. McDermott

    págs. 1064-1071

    

  • PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH SECTION

    Elaine Cohen, Stephen E. Kanim

    págs. 1072-1078

    

  • Another look at a damped physical pendulum

    John C. Simbach, Joseph Priest

    págs. 1079-1080

    

  • Erratum: "Orbits of central force law potentials" [Am. J. Phys. 73 (1), 40--44 (2005)]

    Horacio A. Farach, John L. Safko

    pág. 1081

    

  • APPARATUS AND DEMONSTRATION NOTES: On power supplies used for laboratory demonstration of chaotic electronic oscillators

    Arijit Basuray, Prodyot Kumar Roy, Jeffrey Dunham, Emanuel Gluskin

    págs. 1082-1085

    

  • A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein

    Hans Christian von Baeyer, Daniel V. Schroeder

    págs. 1086-1087

    

  • BOOKS RECEIVED

    págs. 1087-1088