Resonance     journal of science education

March 1997 Volume 2  Number 3
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
V Chandrasekhar
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 The Challenge of Weather Prediction Old and Modern Ways of Weather Forecasting
B N Goswami
16 Algorithms Algorithms for Sorting and Searching
R K Shyamasundar
33 Error Correcting Codes Reed Solomon Codes
Priti Shankar
48 Know Your Chromosomes The Uniqueness of Sex Chromosomes
Vani Brahmachari
  GENERAL ARTICLES
58 Transfinite Numbers What is Infinity?
S M Srivastava
69 CLASSROOM
  On Fermat's Two-Square Theorem
Shailesh A Shirali
  Substituent Effect of the Methoxy Group
Gurumayum S D Sharma and S V Eswaran
76 THINK IT OVER
  The Odd Ball Problem Question raised in the Think It Over section of Resonance, Vol.1, No.7.
C R Pranesachar
  Why Rods and Cocci
Milind Watve
  Test Your Knowledge of the Chemistry of Elements
C G Ramankutty
  Which Direction Does the Frictional Force Act? Question raised in the Think It Over section of Resonance, Vol.1, No.8
Rajaram Nityananda
85 RESEARCH NEWS
The Space Telescope Looks for Black Holes Monsters Lurk at the Centres of Many Galaxies
R Nityananda
87
 BOOK REVIEWS
Horizons of Physics A Series for Undergraduate Students and Teachers
 Avinash Khare
Elements of Cosmology A Lucid, Direct Style that Goes to the Heart of the Subject
 N Panchapakesan
The Language of the Genes Linking the Past and the Future
 Amitabh Joshi
Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things
in the Universe
 J V Narlikar
98
 Books Received / Acknowledgments / Solution to Test Your Knowledge of the Chemistry of Elements


Front Cover
A calico cat. The mosaic pattern of coat colour in this female cat is related to X–chromosome inactivation.
(Courtesy A J F Griffiths)

 

Back Cover
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)
( Illustration by Prema Iyer)

 

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