Physics Education
VOL.34, NO. 2, MAR. 1999
51 In my opinion: What about person-sized physics?
M Cornwall
52 News
57 Letters
IOP SCHOOLS LECTURE
59 (M) Particles and the universe
P Kalinus
TEACHING PHYSICS
68 Real-life contexts tor learning physics: meanings, issues and practice
E Whitelegg and M Parry
72 Atwood's machine: experiments in an accelerating frame
Chia Teck Chee and Chia Yee Hong
76 The cocktail (highball) problem
A Anderson
CURRICULUM MATTERS
80 Project Improve: an FDTL project for chemistry
R B Moyes and T L Overton
83 The physics/maths problem again
PGill
88 A SETI course at University of Western Sydney Macarthur
R Bhathal
PHYSICS UPDATE
92 Production of artificial snow crystals
S Kagawa, F lto and K Kagawa
STUDENT'S PAGE
96 Investigation of the range of alpha particles
K Shah
98 Reviews
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Physics Education
Volume 34, Number 3, May 1999
101 Editorial:'Il sole—no si move'
B Kibble
102 News
106 letters
SOLAR PHYSICS
108 Peeling back the Sun
C Parnell
112 A new view of our star: observations from SOHO
R A Harrison
117 Total eclipses, some personal remarks
G Bond
121 The Sun in eclipse
F Diego
126 The eclipse in the curriculum
D Sang
130 Make your own millennium sundial
B Kibble
136 World time (Solar and Sidereal): an astronomy teaching aid
D Hutton and D Coates
TEACHING PHYSICS
140 fractal accretion of cosmic grains
P Tlillet
145 Teaching first-order differential equations
N Weaver
148 Difficult problems having easy solutions
0 Bolina
149 Thanks to the three viscous formulae
D C Agrawal and V J Menon
153 What goes up and what goes across?
K Dobson
PHYSICS UPDATE
156 Medical lasers and laser-tissue interactions
F Cammarala and M Wautelet
162 Reviews
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Physics Education
Volume 34 , Number 4 , July 1999
167 Editorial: A physicist's journey to the centre of the Earth
R Hipkin
168 News
172 Letters
GEOPHYSICS
175 Antarctic seismology
A M Reading
180 The Earth's main magnetic field
K A Whaler and R T Holme
185 'Little g' revisited: springs, satellites and bumpy seas
R Hipkin
192 Investigating brownfield sites with electrical resistivity
B A Hobbs
THE PHYSICS OF NOTHING
199 Making use of nothing
K Dobson
205 Empty matter and the full physical vacuum
P l P Kalmus
209 Ancient science and the vacuum
A Gregory
TEACHING PHYSICS
214 Getting students familiar with the use of computers: study of the falling of a body in a
fluid
J Guisasola, J I Barragues, P Valdes, R Valdes and F Pedroso
220 Work and heat expenditure during swimming
D C Agrawal
226 How do you picture electricity?
B Kibble
230 Introducing the concept of absolute temperature through the microwave background
radiation
M Daniel
232 Newtonian exercise on a snake-board
D Robinson
237 An alternative derivation of the kinetic theory of gases
J I Pfeffer
240 Force fields, floating frogs and levitating trains: a sixth-form project in computational
physics
C J Phillips, S Evans, W Roy, M Chantrell, A Bradbury, P Llewellyn and R W Chantrell
STUDENT'S PAGE
245 The 'Cavendish Experience' to CERN 1998
A Abeyewickreme
248 Reviews
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Physics Education
Volume 34, Number 5, September 1999
253 In my opinion: Bricks, buildings and brickbats
K Dobson
254 News
263 Letters
TEACHING PHYSICS
266 Using linguistic references to characterize class integration
G. B Stewart, J C Stewart, S Skinner and C Bailey
276 Positron annihilation in flight
G Tudor Jones
286 Hands on CERN: an education project on the Internet using real high energy particle
collisions
K E Johansson and T G M Malmgren
294 Misconceptions and the Certainty of Response Index (CRI)
S Hasan, D Bagayoko and E L Kelley
300 Introducing astrophysics research to high school students
E Etkina, M Lawrence and J Charney
306 Developing A-level physics students' mathematical skills—a way forward?
A J Raw
311 Teaching the EPR paradox at high school?
G Pospiech
316 Squinting and stereoscopic vision
M Haschka and H A Kestler
PEOPLE IN PHYSICS
321 Bunsen without his burner
C A Russell
327 Reviews
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