Resonance     journal of science education

February 2005      Volume 10  Number 2

   

DEPARTMENTS



Editorial  
Editor’s Column 
Jaywant H Arakeri

Donald Griffin Strove
to give Animals their Due
Raghavendra Gadagkar

Information and Announcements


Refresher Course in Mathematics – Cryptology t

Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao,IISc)

 

 
  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Tsunamis
A Large-Scale Earth and Ocean Phenomenon
Satish R Shetye
20 Donald Redfield Griffin
The Discovery of Echolocation
H Raghuram and G Marimuthu
33 Nobel for a Minus Sign
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Rohini M Godbole and Sunil Mukhi
52 Wavelets: Applications to Image Compression – I
Sachin P Nanavati and Prasanta K Panigrahi
   
  PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
86 My Tryst with the Bats of Madurai
M K Chandrashekaran
 
CLASSROOM

Revisiting Kummer’s and Legendre’s Formulae
B Sury
The Maximal and Prime Ideals of R[x], R a PID
Dinesh Khurana and Chanchal Kumar
An Appreciation of Free Radicals –
I. Introduction
G Nagendrappa
Learning Earthquake Design and Construction 13. Why Should Masonry Buildings have Simple Structural Configuration?
C V R Murty
Learning Earthquake Design and Construction 14. Why are Horizontal Bands Necessary in Masonry Buildings?
C V R Murty
   

Front Cover


The cover figure shows a simulation of the perturbation of sea level due to propagation of the tsunamis that were triggered by the earthquake of 26 December 2004, off the coast of Sumatra. It represents the conditions 5 hours after the earthquake. Pink implies sea level above mean sea level. See the article on p. 8 for more information.

(Credit: Colour scheme for cover by Arun Mahale, NIO, Goa)


Back Cover

 

Donald Redfield Griffin
(1915 – 2003)



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