Resonance - journal of science education June 2002 Volume 7 Number 6

Resonance journal of science education

June 2002 Volume 7 Number 6

Of the Analytical Engine

Charles Babbage

DEPARTMENTS

Editorial
Associate Editor’s
Column
Amitabh Joshi

Article-in-a-Box

Charles Babbage – A Misunderstood Genius
V Rajaraman

Head-on Collision of Two Balls Revisited
Umapati Pattar and A W Joshi

How Far Apart are Primes? Bertrand’s Postulate
B Sury

Information and Announcements

Refresher Course in Reproductive Biology at Karnatak University, Dharwad

Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees

(Courtesy: K Sankara Rao)

SERIES ARTICLES

Glial Cells: The Other Cells of the Nervous System
Oligodendrocytes – Ensheathers of the CNS
Yasmin Khan and Medha S Rajadhyaksha

GENERAL ARTICLES

On Trace Zero Matrices
V S Sunder

Introduction to Web Information Retrieval: A User Perspective
How to get what you want on the World Wide Web
Srinath Srinivasa and P C P Bhatt

The Modular Construction of DNA Double Helix
Subramania Ranganathan and Anand Ranganathan

How is Nature Asymmetric?
Discrete Symmetries in Particle Physics and their Violation
B Ananthanarayan, J Meeraa, Bharti Sharma, Seema Sharma and Ritesh K Singh

FEATURE ARTICLES

Nature Watch
Tracking Turtles through Time and Space
Kartik Shanker

Analytical engine

Front Cover Origami model of a DNA double helix (Also see article on page 39) (Colour scheme for cover by Jayant Rao)
Back Cover	Charles Babbage ( 1791 – 1871 )

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