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Resonance     journal of science education

January 2003      Volume 8  Number 1

 

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DEPARTMENTS




Editorial
 
Associate Editor’s
Column 

Bimal Nath



Classroom

A Number-theoretic Game
Prithvi Ramesh


Information and
Announcements

Summer Programme for Students & Teachers, PRL, Ahmedabad


Books Received

Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees
(Credits: K A Subramanian, CES, IISc)

 

  GENERAL ARTICLES
04 On the Glitter of a Meteor
Smart Kundassery
15 Dust in Space
Biman Nath
30 Babylonian Pythagoras’ Theorem, the Early History of Zero and a Polemic on the Study of the History of Science
Rahul Roy
41 S Minakshisundaram: A Glimpse into his Life and Work
S Thangavelu
51 Lichens: A Valuable Bioresource for Environmental Monitoring and Sustainable Development
Hans Raj Negi
59 The Rijke Tube – A Thermo-acoustic Device
Shekhar M Sarpotdar, N Ananthkrishnan and S D Sharma
72 Role of Wind Tunnels in Aircraft Design
S P Govinda Raju
77 Century of Nobel Prizes: 1909 Chemistry Laureate
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)
R Shridhar Gadre

 

RESEARCH NEWS
89 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 for the Observation of Cosmic Neutrinos
B Ananthanarayan
92 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002: Riccardo Giaconni
Biman Nath
   

Front Cover

Resonance December 2002 Front Cover

Back Cover

Resonance December 2002 Back Cover

S Minakshisundaram
( 1913 – 1968)
Illustration: Thangapazham

 

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