Resonance     journal of science education

December 2003      Volume 8  Number 12




Sage Bharadvaja’s Vimana Prakarana
Manu

Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao, IISc)

 

   

DEPARTMENTS



Editorial  

Editor’s Column 
G Nagendrappa


Article-in-a-Box

The Wright Brothers
and their First Flight

O N Ramesh

The Wright Family
R Narasimha


Classroom

A Simple and Illustra-tive Method of Ion-Exchange Chroma-tography
B Ramachandra Murty

Planetary Orbits as Simple Harmonic Motion
Bikram Phookun




CLASSICS

Some Aeronautical Experiments
Wilbur Wright

  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Geologic and Climatic Puzzle fo the Proterozoic Snowball Earth
P V Sukumaran
18 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods Statistical Applications
K B Athreya, Mohan Delampady and T Krishnan
33 Frobenius and His Density Theorem for Primes
B Sury
42 RNA Inteference – Towards RNA becoming a Medicine
Subhanjan Mondal
50 Powered Hang Gliding
Vidyadhar Y Mudkavi
61 How Two Bicyle Mechanics Achieved the World’s First Powered Flight
Roddam Narasimha
   
 
   
  RESEARCH NEWS
New Insights into Obesity
D D Bansal and Ravneet Kaur Boparai
   
  BOOK REVIEWS
94 How we Invented the Airplane
C S Yogananda
   

Front Cover

Wright Brothers first flight
(Credit: Courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University)

(Colour scheme for cover by Jayant Rao)


Back Cover

 

Wilbur Wright (1867 – 1912)
Orville Wright (1871 – 1948)

(Illustration: Thangapazham)

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