Resonance     journal of science education

June 1997 Volume 2  Number 6
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
06 Approach to Absolute Zero 0.3 K to a Few Milli-Kelvin
R Srinivasan
15 The Normal Distribution From Binomial to Normal
S Ramasubramanian
25 The Immune System and Bodily Defence How Does the Immune System Organize Itself so as to Connect Target Recognition to Expected Functions?
Vineeta Bal and Satyajit Rath
39 Algorithms Data Structures: Lists, Queues, Stacks and Arrays
R K Shyamasundar
47 Use of Isotopes for Studying Reaction Mechanisms Primary Kinetic Isotope Effect
Uday Maitra and J Chandrasekhar
  GENERAL ARTICLES
54 The Liquid State The Arrangement of Atoms
K R Rao
60 Carl Friedrich Gauss
D Surya Ramana
68 Curious Sex Ratios and Cytoplasmic Genes Microbes Can Distort the Sex Ratio of Populations
Stephen J Freeland and Laurence D Hurst
79 CLASSROOM
  Teaching Biodiversity
Madhav Gadgil
  The Thirsty Bird
Z Ahmad
  THINK IT OVER
89 To Find Four Distinct Positive Integers such that the Sum of Any Two of them is a Square
S H Aravind
91
 BOOK REVIEWS
Optimization Methods in Operations Research and Systems Analysis
V G Tikekar
In the Beginning — The Birth of a Living Universe Evolutionary Ripples
S Krishnaswamy
INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
  National Conference on Energy Crisis and Environment
Acknowledgments / Books Received / Errata


Front Cover
The cover photograph shows a familiar toy, which apparently executes perpetual motion. The principles of thermodynamics determining the action of the 'Thirsty Bird' are discussed in the classroom section.

 

Back Cover
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
(illustration by Prema Iyer)

 

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