Resonance     journal of science education

April 2003      Volume 8  Number 4

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DEPARTMENTS



Editorial  

Editor’s Column 

M K Chandrashekaran

Article-in-a-Box

Thomas Bayes
Mohan Delampady


Classroom

Area and Volume of a Spherical Cap – Revisited

S N Maitra


Think It Over

On Sums of
Powers of
Digits
Shipra Mital


Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees
(Credits: Arun Kumar and
S Rama Rao)

  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 IPv6: The Next Generation Internet Protocol
Harsha Srinath
17 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
Simple Monte Carlo

K B Athreya, Mohan Delampady and T Krishnan
27 The Beginning of Biochemistry
T Ramasarma
33 Exploring the Atmosphere with Lidars
Basics and Applications
S Veerabuthiran
44 Precession of the Equinoxes and its
Importance in Calendar Making

Utpal Mukhopadhyay
57 Nitrix Oxide: The Wonder Molecule
Kushal Chakraborty
   
  BOOK REVIEWS
66 500 Years of Tantrasangraha – A Landmark in the History of Astronomy
B S Shylaja
   
Classics
An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
Thomas Bayes
   
Information & Announcements
Refresher Course on Probability, Statistics and Stochastic Processes
   

RSEARCH NEWS

69

Chemistry Nobel Prize 2002
Mass Spectrometry

M Vairamani
77 New Results in Microwave Background
Anisotropy from WMAP
Biman Nath

Front Cover

Back Cover

Thomas Bayes
( 1702 – 1761)
Illustration: Thangapazham

 

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