Resonance     journal of science education

July 2004      Volume 9  Number 7

 

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DEPARTMENTS



Editorial  

Editor’s Column 
S Mahadevan


Article-in-a-Box

George Gamow – A Biographical Sketch 
 
Biman Nath


Classroom

Power Maps and Commutativity of Groups
Ashok Singh

Teaching Chemistry through Riddles
Mala Das Sharma

Motion of Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields and Special Theory of Relativity
P Chaitanya Das,
G Srinivasa Murthy,
P C Deshmukh,
K Satish Kumar and
T A Venkatesh



 Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees  (Credits: K Sankara Rao, IISc)

  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Wave Propagation: Odd is Better, but Three is Best
Propagation in Spaces of Different Dimensions
V Balakrishnan
18 Clathrates – An Exploration of the Chemistry of
Caged Compounds

Srivathsa Vaidya
32 And Gamow said, Let there be a Hot Universe
Somak Raychaudhury
44 George Gamow and the Genetic Code 
Vidyanand Nanjundiah
50 Deer Antlers 
Rapid Growing Calcified Tissue

A Rajaram



FEATURE ARTICLES

64 Propulsion of the Putt-Putt Boat – II 
V Sharadha


 
CLASSICS

Galaxies in Flight 

George Gamow

Information and Announcements

Referesher Course in Experimental Physics

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Referesher Course on Animal Behaviour




  BOOK REVIEWS
86 Books by G Gamow 
C S Yogananda
90 The Story of Quantum Theory 
Abhijit Saha
92 Inorganic Chemistry
K C Patil



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Back Cover

 

George Gamow
(1904 – 1968)
(Illustration: Biman Nath, RRI )

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