Resonance     journal of science education

April 1997 Volume 2  Number 4
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
The Chandrasekhar Limit
G Srinivasan
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 Nonlinearity, Conservation Law and Shocks Genuine Nonlinearity and Discontinuous Solutions
Phoolan Prasadi
  GENERAL ARTICLES
19 The Legacy of S Chandrasekhar Remembering a Giant of Our Timess
Kameshwar C Wali
25 From Calculus to Wavelets: A New Mathematical Technique Wavelet Analysis
Physical Properties

Gerald B Folland
38 What is a Gene? A Question With Variable Answers
S C Lakhotia
48 Why Does a Rubber Ball Bounce? The Molecular Origins of Rubber Elasticity
V G Geethamma and Sabu Thomas
55 Vulcanization of Rubber How to Alter Molecular Structure and Influence
Physical Properties

Ch. S S R Kumar and Avinash M Nijasure
  FEATURE ARTICLES
60 What's New in Computers? Digital Libraries
T B Rajashekar
74 CLASSROOM
  Stratified Sampling– When the Optimum Allocation Demands More than 100% Sampling
R Vasudeva
  Increase of Entropy and the Arithmetic – Geometric Mean
T S K V Iyer
78
BOOK REVIEWS
Glimpses of India's Statistical Heritage Stories of Some Pioneers
S K Chatterjee
Origins: The Emergence and Evolution of Our Species and its Possible Future
Partha P Majumder
82
REFLECTIONS
The Pursuit of Science : Its Motivations
S Chandrasekhar
Acknowledgments


Front Cover
This figure is from a famous book Birth and death of the Sun by the physicist George Gamow. He was an artist as well and prepared his own illustrations! He explains the diagram as follows:

 

Back Cover
S Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)

 

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