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The chart produced by the Fundamental Particles and Interactions Chart Committee is explained. This chart describes the properties of elementary particles according to the Standard Model and is intended for physics instruction at the high school and undergraduate levels. (AIP)

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12.10.Dm	Unified theories and models of strong and electroweak interactions
12.39.Ba	Bag model
01.50.F-	Audio and visual aids

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Joyce Mahoney, Lisa Grable‐Wallace, and Prabha Ramakrishnan

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 567

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01.50.ht	Instructional computer use
01.40.Di	Course design and evaluation
01.55.+b	General physics
45.05.+x	General theory of classical mechanics of discrete systems

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Operation ‘‘physicswitch’’

David Gewanter and Paul Hickman

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 569

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01.40.E-

Science in school

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Interference and polarized light

Seymour Charas

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 570

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01.50.My	Demonstration experiments and apparatus
42.25.Hz	Interference
42.25.Ja	Polarization

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Viewing vertical objects with an overhead projector

R. L. Wild

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 572

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01.50.My	Demonstration experiments and apparatus
07.07.Hj	Display and recording equipment, oscilloscopes, TV cameras, etc.

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Teaching physics and feeling good about it

Charles F. Prokop

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 574

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01.40.Di

Course design and evaluation

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The motion of a point in a rigid body on a horizontal plane

Duan Jihui and Charles T. P. Wang

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 575

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01.50.Pa	Laboratory experiments and apparatus
45.05.+x	General theory of classical mechanics of discrete systems

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A brief etymology of words used in physics or does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the fulcrum overnight?

George W. Goth

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 576

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01.90.+g

Other topics of general interest (restricted to new topics in section 01)

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An intriguing problem in equivalent resistance

Bernard Scott

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 578 | Cited 2 times

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84.30.Bv	Circuit theory
84.32.Ff	Conductors, resistors (including thermistors, varistors, and photoresistors)

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The sloooow camera

Charlotte Farrell

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 581

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01.50.My	Demonstration experiments and apparatus
07.68.+m	Photography, photographic instruments; xerography
42.15.Eq	Optical system design
42.87.-d	Optical testing techniques

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Skiing revisited—to lean or not tolean?

Joe Pizzo

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 584

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01.50.My	Demonstration experiments and apparatus
45.05.+x	General theory of classical mechanics of discrete systems

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Astronomy: Comets

William Luzader

The Physics Teacher -- December 1988 -- Volume 26, Issue 9, pp. 585

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01.50.F-	Audio and visual aids
96.30.Cw	Comets
95.80.+p	Astronomical catalogs, atlases, sky surveys, databases, retrieval systems, archives, etc.