Resonance     journal of science education

July 1997 Volume 2  Number 7
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
The Turing Test
Vijay Chandru
The Turning Machine
P S Thiagarajan
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 Nonlinearity, Conservation Law and Shocks Stability Consideration and Examples
Phoolan Prasad
20 What Can the Answer be? Reciprocal Basis in n-Dimensions and other
Ramifications

V Balakrishnan
27 The Normal Distribution Some Roles of Normality
S Ramasubramanian
38 Know Your Chromosomes But Why?
Vani Brahmachari
48 Know Your Personal Computer Basic Input-Output System (BIOS)
S K Ghoshal
  GENERAL ARTICLES
55 On Shapes of Algebraic LociWild-life in the Forests of Geometry
Subhashis Nag
64 Silica from Ash A Valuable Product from Waste Material
Davinder Mittal
  FEATURE ARTICLES
67 Nature Watch The Arrangement of Atoms
Vidya R Athreya
75 CLASSROOM
  Pitfalls in Elementary Physics
Arvind Kumar
  Small is Beautiful, in Chemistry Also
R Gopalan
THINK IT OVER
  How Many Functional Molecules?
Milind Watve
  Organic Reaction Mechanisms
J Chandra-sekhar and Uday Maitra
  RESEARCH NEWS
89 Deep Blue Beats Kasparov in a Rematch A Victory for Machine over Man
K S R Anjaneyulu
91
BOOK REVIEWS
A Darwin Selection A Comprehensive Darwin Anthology
Shailesh Deshpande and Milind Watve
A Course on Integration Theory
B J Venkatachala
INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Acknowledgments / Books Received


Front Cover
Colour Schlieren photograph of the flow past the first stage of a typical launch vehicle model at a Mach number of 2.5 and Angle of Attack of 40o taken in the 1.2m trisonic wind tunnel at NAL. Shock-wave and expansion waves around the model can be clearly seen. (Courtesy: Wind Tunnel Laboratory, NAL, Bangalore)

 

Back Cover
Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)
(illustration by Prema Iyer)

 

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