Resonance Volume 3

Journal of Science Education

Volume 3

No. 1, January 1998	Pages. No
Series Articles
Multiplication on Rn Division algebra and vector product — Basudeb Datta	8-14
The immune system and bodily defence How does the immune system live with a randomly generated repertoire? — Vinneta Bal and Satyajit Rath	15-20
General Articles
The riddle of the apparently hollow himalaya — Ramesh Chander	21-26
Why do clocks move clockwise? The dynamics of collective learning — Vivek S. Borkar	27-35
Love games that insects play The evolution of sexual behaviours in insects — K. N. Ganeshaiah	36-46
An introduction to parallel computation — Abhiram Ranade	47-73
Research News	74-78
Book Reviews	79-80
Reflections
Einstein"s last dream: The space time unification of fundamental forces — Abdus Salam	81-88
Extract from Salam's Nobel prize acceptance speech, stockholm, December 8, 1979	89-90
No. 2, February 1998
Series Articles
Multiplication on Rn Adam's Theorems and applications — Basudeb Datta	8-15
General Articles
Nobel Prize in Physics-1997 Laser cooling and Trapping — Vasant Natarajan and R. Srinivasan	16-27
How genes evolve Molecular techniques give us a closer look at evolution at the DNA level — Ravi Parkash	28-34
Can you depend totally on computers? Computer security, availability and correctness — H. N. Mahabala	35-44
Noble prize in chemistry -1997 The story of two extra ordinary enzymes — S. Ranganathan	45-52
J C Bose's contributions to chronobiology — M. K. Chandrashekaran	53-78
Research News	79-82
Book Reviews	83-90
No. 3, March 1998
General Articles
Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass extinction Meteoritic versus volcanic causes — P. V. Sukumaran	8-17
Probing the solar interior Hearing the Heartbeats of the sun — Ashok Ambastha	18-31
Enzyme Vs Extremozyme What makes extremozymes function under harsh conditions ? — Santosh Kumar	32-40
Plant Glandular Trichomes Chemical factories with many potential uses — A. John peter and Thomas G. Shanower	41-45
Expert Systems: An introduction — K. S. R. Anjaneyulu	46-58
Barytes An industrially useful mineral abundantly available in India — V. Raghu	59-70
Research News	71-72
Book Reviews	73-80
Reflections	81-92
No. 4, April 1998
Series Articles
Chaos Introduction to Chaos — K. Krishan, Manu and R. Ramaswamy	6-14
Algorithms Correctness of programs — R. K. Shyamsundar	15-29
Molecules to materials An overview of functional molecular solids — T. P. Radhakrishnan	30-42
General Articles
Kolmogorov Arnold mose theorem Can planetary motion be stable ? — Govindan Rangarajan	43-53
Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov — K. P. Parthasarathy	54-63
Gender in plants Why do plants change sex? — Renee M. Borges	64-71
Who will win the Toss? — H. Ramesh and V. Vinay	72-87
On Benzene and aromaticity History and some folklore — M. V. Bhatt	88-93
No. 5, May 1998
Series Articles
Molecules to materials Liquid crystals and molecular conductors — T. P. Radhakrishnan	6-23
General Articles
Astronomical spectroscopy A short history — J. C. Bhattacharyya	24-29
On Kepler's first law The law of Ellipses — Shailesh Shirali	30-42
Feature articles
Nature watch Thinking like a Tahr: When males and females go their separate ways — M. D. madhusudan	43-47
What is new Computers? Mobile computing — L. M. Patnaik	48-75
Research News	76-77
Book Reviews	78-82
No. 6, June 1998
Series Articles
Chaos Routes to Chaos — K. Krishnan, Manu and R. Ramaswamy	8-15
General Articles
Astronomical spectroscopy The light from the stars — J. C. Bhattacharyya	16-24
The class number problem Binary quadratic forms — Rajat Tandon	25-30
Enzyme kinetics? Elementary, my dear Kinetics of enzyme catalysed reactions — Desirazu N. Rao	31-39
There's No such thing as a free lunch The bias-variance dilemma — Vivek S. Barkar	40-51
Iron sulfur proteins and their synthetic analogues: structure, reactivity and redox properties — B. N. Anand	52-61
Feature Articles
Nature Watch Flightless young and meticulous mother bats — G. Marimuthu	62-75
Research News
Furthest ever galaxy discovered When the universe was young — Biman Nath	76-77
Book Reviews	78-81
Reflections	82-88
No. 7, July 1998
Series Articles
Molecules to materials Molecular magnetic materials — T. P. Radhakrishnan	8-17
General Articles
Homi Bhabha and cosmic ray research in India — B. V. Sreekantan	18-27
The class number problem An introduction to algebraic number theory — Rajat Tandon	28-37
Enzyme Kinetics? elementary, my dear The analysis and significance of kinetic parameters — Desirazu N. Rao	38-44
How do plants absorb nutrients from the soil? Study of nutrient uptake — G. Sivakumar swamy	45-52
Game Theory Nash Equilibrium — P. G. Babu	53-60
Machine Translation A gentle introduction — Durgesh D. Rao	61-77
Book Reviews	78-79
The present concept of the physical world — H. J. Bhabha	80
No. 8, August 1998
Guest Article
On Science education and scientific research — R. K. Varma	8-13
Series Article
Molecules to materials Molecular nonlinear optical materials — T. P. Radhakrishnan	14-24
General Articles
Where on earth am I? Don't worry GPS satellites will guide you Introduction and principle of GPS — Makarand Phatak	25-32
The congruent number problem — V. Chandrasekar	33-45
Game theory Conventions and knowledge — P. G. Babu	46-55
Feature Articles
Nature Watch Hornbills giants among the forest birds — T. R. Shankar Raman and Divya mudappa	56-66
Research News	67-72
Book reviews	73
Reflections
That One Year! — Rajaram Nityananda	74-75
Albert Einstein -The Man behind the myths — John Stachel	76-88
No. 9, September 1998
Series Articles
Great experiments in physics Discovery of transistor effect that changed the communication world — Amit Roy	6-13
General Articles
Where on earth am I? Don't worry, GPS statellites will guide you Mechnisms and uses of GPS — Markarand Phatak	14-25
Listening to the shape of a drum The mathematics of vibrating durms — S. Kesavan	26-34
What do Psychologists do? Two examples from research in cognitive psychology — Kamala Mukunda	35-44
Optoelectronic implementation of Neutral networks Use of optics in computing — R. Ramachandran	45-55
Ultrasound: A boon in synthesis of organic compounds — Vasundhara Singh, Kanwal Preet Kaur, Anupam Khurana and G. L. Kad	56-60
Feature Articles
Digital watermarks Authentication of digital data — H. R. Madhusudan	61-82
Reflections
Hardy's "A mathematician's apology" — L. J. Mordell	83-94
Books Received	95
No. 10, October 1998
Series articles
Chaos Studying chaos in the laboratory — K. Krishan, Manu and R. Ramaswamy	8-15
Molecules to materials Molecular Material devices — T. P. Radhakrishnan	16-25
175 years of Linear programming The french connection — Vijay chandry and M. R. Rao	26-40
General Articles
And still they moved An important statement about some rock masses — Ramesh Chander	41-48
Listening to the shape of a drum You cannot hear the shape of a drum — S. Kesavan	49-58
Crossing the salt barrier — Samir Bhattacharya	59-69
Rebulation of cellular and molecular functions by protein phosphorylation — Ghanshyam Swarup	70-78
On fast fourier transform A popular tool for spectrum analysis — V. U. Reddy	79
No. 11, November 1998
Series Articles
Great experiments in physics Tunneling in superconductors The josephson effect — Amit Roy	8-17
General Articles
The Archimedes principle and Gauss's Divergence Theorem — Subhashis Nag	18-29
Gender in plants More about why and how plants change sex — Renee M. Borges	30-39
Web search engines How to get what you want from the world wide web — T. B. Rajasekar	40-53
Supercomputers today Parallelism is the Name of the Game — V. Rajaraman	54-68
Scientific Laws hypotheses and theories Meanings and Distinctions — J. R. Lakshmana Rao	69-74
There is much more to Mendeleev's periodic Table than meets the eye — S. Vatsala	75-81
Feature Articles
Molecule of the month Carannulene -A bucky bow! — H. Surya Prakash Rao	82-88
Book Reviews
The story of spin — N. Mukunda	89
Naturalists in a nutshell: 90 minute biographies of eminent scientists — S. Mahadevan	90-91
From galileo to Einstein — G. S. Ranganath	92-93
Linear Algebra — D. R. Chaudhari	94-95
No. 12, December 1998
Series Articles
Molecules to materials Molecular scale devices — T. P. Radhakrishnan	4-12
General Articles
Neutrino oscillation — Siddheshwar lal	13-22
Around Newton's theorem An inverse problem in potential theory — Cherian varughese	23-31
Haldane's contributions to biological research in India — Partha P. Majumder	32-35
J B S Haldane — Vidyanand Nanjundiah	36-42
Programming Languages A brief Review — V. Rajaraman	43-54
Scientific 'laws', 'hypotheses and theories How are they related? — J. R. Lakshmana Rao	55-61
The Legacy of radijm — M. S. S. Murthy	62-90
Book Reviews
A life revisited — Ramachandra Guha	91-92
Srinivasan Ramanujan: A mathematical genius — S. Natarajan	93-95