Resonance - journal of science education April 2003 Volume 8 Number 4

Resonance journal of science education

April 2003 Volume 8 Number 4

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

IPv6: The Next Generation Internet Protocol
Harsha Srinath

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
Simple Monte Carlo
K B Athreya, Mohan Delampady and T Krishnan

The Beginning of Biochemistry
T Ramasarma

Exploring the Atmosphere with Lidars
Basics and Applications
S Veerabuthiran

Precession of the Equinoxes and its
Importance in Calendar Making
Utpal Mukhopadhyay

Nitrix Oxide: The Wonder Molecule
Kushal Chakraborty

BOOK REVIEWS

500 Years of Tantrasangraha – A Landmark in the History of Astronomy
B S Shylaja

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

Chemistry Nobel Prize 2002
Mass Spectrometry
M Vairamani

New Results in Microwave Background
Anisotropy from WMAP
Biman Nath

Front Cover
Back Cover	Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761) Illustration: Thangapazham

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