Resonance     journal of science education

May 2004      Volume 9  Number 5

   

DEPARTMENTS



Editorial  
Editor’s Column 
B Sury

Article-in-a-Box

Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley 
Virginia Trimble

Classroom

A Public Experiment in the History of Science:
Naked Eye Visibility of the Transit of Venus
Nirupama Raghavan

Practical Observations of the Transit of Venus
B S Shyalaja

Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao, IISc, Inset:  E Kunhikrishnan, Trivandrum)

 

 
  GENERAL ARTICLES
10 The Mutable Galaxies
How Galaxies Enrich with Heavy Elements
 Biman Nath
19 Magnetic Resonance Imaging:
Window to a  Watery World
Kavita Dorai
33 Search for Future Viands
Algae and Fungi as Food
Dipanjan Ghosh
41 The Meaning of Integration – II
A K Nandakumaran
51 Molecular Modeling: A Powerful Tool for Drug Design and Molecular Docking
Rama Rao Nadendla
61 The No-Slip Boundary Condition in Fluid
Mechanics
Solution of the Sticky Problem
Sandeep Prabhakara and M D Deshpande
   




CLASSICS From Big Bang to Eternity?
  Beatrice Tinsley
 
 Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) – 2004

Refresher Course in Experimental Physics
   
  BOOK REVIEWS
84 My Daughter Beatrice
D C V Mallik
87  Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys
B Sury



Front Cover
Heme portion of haemoglobin. (see article on p.51).
(Colour scheme for  cover by Jayant Rao)


Back Cover

 

Beatrice Tinsley
(1941 – 1981)
(Illustration: Biman Nath, RRI)

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