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Dec 1995

Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 548-590


Bigger bounces

Alan W. Hirshfeld

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 548

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01.50.My Demonstration experiments and apparatus

Water, microwaves, and tea

Charles C. Blatchley

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 548

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01.55.+b General physics

Cake before bread?

Avrum Dunsky

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 548

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01.50.ht Instructional computer use

Cooperative Venture

Ruth Howes and Beverly Hartline

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 548

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01.10.Hx Physics organizational activities

Braintwisters for physics students

Boris Korsunsky

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 550 | Cited 2 times

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01.40.E- Science in school
01.40.G- Curricula and evaluation

Environmental radioactivity and the weather

Michael C. Boyer

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 554

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23.90.+w Other topics in radioactive decay and in-beam spectroscopy (restricted to new topics in section 23)

Measuring the sizes of biological samples by diffraction

George W. Goth

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 556

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01.50.Pa Laboratory experiments and apparatus
42.25.Fx Diffraction and scattering

Videotaping the lifespan of a soap bubble

Göran Rämme

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 558

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42.25.Hz Interference

The period of F↘=−kxnx harmonic motion

Chris Hirata and David Thiessen

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 562 | Cited 1 time

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01.40.G- Curricula and evaluation
45.05.+x General theory of classical mechanics of discrete systems

Geometric derivation of radial acceleration magnitude

David W. Kraft and Lloyd Motz

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 565 | Cited 1 time

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45.05.+x General theory of classical mechanics of discrete systems

Apparatus for teaching physics: Linearizing a nonlinear spring

Glenn Wagner

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 566

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07.10.Pz Instruments for strain, force, and torque

The additive property of energy

Dimitris S. Tsaoussis

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 568

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45.05.+x General theory of classical mechanics of discrete systems

The Family Tree: The Origin of Humankind

Richard Leakey, Author and Peter K. Glanz

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 572

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01.65.+g History of science

Radiation Hurrah! Hurrah!: The Good News About Radiation

John Lenihan, Author and Albert C. Claus

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 572

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01.75.+m Science and society

Thermodynamic cycles—one more time

Michael J. Nolan

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 573

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05.70.-a Thermodynamics

Physics in the sonnet style

Graham Pearson and Darah Atkinson

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 577

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01.40.Di Course design and evaluation

The ballistic cart on an incline revisited

Raymond A. Serway, Jim Lehman, and Richard Hall

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 578

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

String & sticky tape experiments: The ‘‘folk’’ balloon

Anderson Coser Gaudio and Laércio Ferracioli

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 582

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01.50.Wg Physics of toys

Teaching physics concepts and numbers

Martin F. Schmidt, Jr.

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 584

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01.40.G- Curricula and evaluation

Galileo Redux or, how do nonrigid, extended bodies fall?

Ronald Newburgh and George M. Andes

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 586 | Cited 1 time

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Trick of the trade

Walter R. Steiger and Suk R. Hwang

The Physics Teacher -- December 1995 -- Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 590

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01.50.My Demonstration experiments and apparatus
41.20.-q Applied classical electromagnetism
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