Resonance     journal of science education

June 2005      Volume 10  Number 6
 
Editorial
Editor’s Column  
Jaywant H Arakeri
Article-in-a-Box
Roentgen and his Rays
V Lakshminarayananr
  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Quantum Computation with Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping
Debabrata Goswami
15 Techniques in X-ray Astronomy
Imaging Telescopesh
Kulinder Pal Singh
24 Small Angle X-ray Scattering: Going Beyond the Bragg Peaks
V A Raghunathan
35 X-ray Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules
K Suguna
43 Alfred Wegener – From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics
A J Saigeetha and Ravinder Kumar Banyall
60 X-ray – A Boon for Elemental Analysis
N K Sharat Singh and H Nandakumar Sarma
70 Chemical Crystallography: From Inception to Maturity
T N Guru Row
CLASSROOM
78 Learning Earthquake Design and Construction – How do Columns in RC Buildings Resist Earthquakes?
C V R Murty
82 Learning Earthquake Design and Construction – How do Beam–Column Joints in RC Buildings Resist Earthquakes?
C V R Murty
THINK IT OVER
86 Solution to Mileage from Push Pull Express
 S N Maitra
88 How many balls are there in the urn at 12 o’clock?
 Soubhik Chakraborty
CLASSICS
89 On a New Kind of Rays
 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Information and Announcements
96 Refresher Course in Probability, Stochastic Processes and Applications
Inside Back Cover
Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao,IISc)
Front Cover Back Cover


Anna Bertha Roentgen’s hand: the first X-ray photograph ever taken.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
(1845 – 1923)

(Illustration: Subhankar Biswas)

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