Discusses the nature of Laplace transform techniques and explains an alternative to them: the Widder's real inversion. To illustrate the power of this new technique, it is applied to a difficult inversion: the problem of Landau damping. (GA)

Discusses and clarifies the relationship between the energy-momentum tensor and the velocity of energy flow. (Author/GA)

Describes an experiment to demonstrate the influence of a magnetic field on the behavior of a single Langmuir probe. The experiment introduces the student to magnetically supported plasma and particle behavior in a magnetic field. (GA)

Describes a physics course about acoustics as applied to the practice and experience of music. The course has no prerequisites and is being offered to students with diverse backgrounds, such as music, engineering, business administration, and physics majors. (Author/GA)

This program was designed to satisfy the modern needs of architects who are confronted with the constraints imposed by the principles of physics, particularly those relating to energy. The program is designed to make clear, through lectures and laboratory investigations, the relationship between concepts in physics and practice in architecture.…

This article shows that the centrifugal force in a rotating reference frame possesses the property that the brachistochrone and tautochrone are identical. In this system the force is repulsive and proportional to the distance from the force center. (Author/BB)

This experiment uses the effect of the relativistic mass increase of electrons on the results of x-ray photoelectron spectrometry to obtain the rest energy of electrons. (BB)

Provides facts which dispel widely held fallacies about the consequences of coal-burning, most of which are physics-related. Concentrates on air pollution as the major contributor to the public hazard from coal-burning. (GA)

Describes a method of instruction and a system of teaching that befits the role of what is called the "traditional" teacher, pointing out that teaching is an art and not a science. (GA)

Describes the experiment and the apparatus used to measure electrostatic forces between charged parallel plates and points out possible pitfalls in constructing the apparatus. (GA)

Describes an honors course in physics, taken by all students in the Department, to serve as a "core" of basic physics. The course is coupled with a wide range of options inside and outside the Physics Department. (GA)

Describes the attempts of a teacher to use a personal microcomputer to provide tutoring in an undergraduate physics course. (GA)

Introduces a pictorial, intuitive approach that allows the teaching of thermodynamics equilibrium in an introductory college physics course. (GA)

A new scale is suggested, with the objective of simplifying relationships between the various scales and units used in spectroscopy. Although there are certain drawbacks to such a scale, it is hoped that the suggestion will stimulate discussion on the relevance of the many scales and units that are used. (Author/BB)

Discusses some high school physics demonstrations and experiments on a variety of topics: such as uses of the dipole, the vapour-liquid critical point, velocity of sound in metallic rods, the flux-density near a bar magnet, and a different style logic gate using basic units. (GA)