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Volume 43, Number 2, March 2008 | ||||
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| 117 | BETT finds money in education Children transmit sound on light beams Physics Education features at ASE 2008
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FRONTLINE |
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| 122 | Crazy things that we teach in physics Keith S Taber
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| 124 | LEDs provide 'green' energy Blane Baker and Colby Lojka
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| 125 | End-of-term lessons prove ideal Philip Britton
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| 126 | Pencil lead shows nonlinearity in heat experiment Marcos Alfredo Salami, Joao Bernardes da Rocha Filho and Nara Regina de Souza Basso
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| 129 | Tides, as explained by Newton Alan Griffin
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| 132 | Take your physics lesson outside Chris King
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134 | Hooke's spreadsheet proves a not so flashy solution Gary Williams
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COMMENT |
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| 135 | Is Earth science a dirty subject?
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SPECIAL FEATURE: EARTH |
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| 136 | The physics of an earthquake John McCloskey
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| 144 | Why does plate tectonics occur only on Earth? Paula Martin, Jeroen van Hunen, Stephen Parman and Jon Davidson
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| 151 | Landslides: a question of balance John Devitt and Pete Loader
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| 158 | How do we know that the Earth spins around its axis? Ann-Marie Pendrill
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| 165 | Eratosthenes' teachings with a globe in a school yard Mirjana Božić and Martial Ducloy
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FEATURES |
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| 173 | Uncertainty in the classroom—teaching quantum physics K E Johansson and D Milstead
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| 180 | Is the water heating curve as described? H G Riveros and A I Oliva
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| 185 | The flight from physics education: searching for reasons by comparisons across the
curriculum Martin Monk
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189 | Experiments for a special day Paul Gluck
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| 198 | Investigative studies of refractive indices of liquids and a demonstration of refraction by the
use of a laser pointer and a lazy Susan Siu Ling Wong and Se-yuen Mak
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| 203 | Finding the density of a liquid using a metre rule K N Chattopadhyay
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| 206 | An exciting experiment for pre-engineering and introductory physics students: creating a
DC motor using the Lorentz force Wathiq N Abdul-Razzaq, Manfred H Boehm and Ryan K Bushey
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PEOPLE |
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| 212 | Interview: Earth science gets to the core
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REVIEWS |
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| 217 | Book: Doomsday Men: the Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the
Superweapon CD: RAF Real-life Science Booklet: Seismology Book: Ice, Rock, and Beauty: a Visual Tour of the New Solar System Equipment: Leicester Height Measure Book: Learning Science Teaching: Developing a Professional Knowledge Base Equipment: Nova 5000EX Equipment: Seismometer Modelling Kit Equipment: Vibration Detector Equipment: Seismometer System Web Watch: Earth
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LETTERS |
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| 232 | Improved accessibility Reply to the above letter from the author of 'Can physics help win the case? A real-world application of an unusual two-dimensional projectile motion situation' A small caveat Reply to the above letter from the authors of 'The clamp-on ammeter: a tool for understanding electricity' Same method, new result
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SIGNING OFF |
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| 236 | The special theory of relativity
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