Resonance     journal of science education

November 1998 Volume 3 Number 11
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
On Parallel Computing – Indian Trends
U N Sinha
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 Great Experiments in Physics Tunneling in Superconductors: The Josephson Effect
Amit Roy
  GENERAL ARTICLES
18
The Archimedes Principle and Gauss’s Divergence Theorem
Subhashis Nag
30 Gender in Plants More About Why and How Plants Change Sex
Renee M Borges
40 Web Search Engines How to Get What You Want from the World Wide Web
T B Rajashekar
54 Supercomputers Today Parallelism is the Name of the Game
V Rajaraman
69 Scientific ‘Laws’, ‘Hypotheses’ and ‘Theories’ Meanings and Distinctions
J R Lakshmana Rao
75 There is Much More to Mendeleev’s Periodic Table Than Meets the Eye
S Vatsala
  FEATURE ARTICLES
82 Molecule of the Month Corannulene – A Bucky Bowl
H Surya Prakash Rao
87 CLASSROOM
  Puzzling Rectangles Revisited
C R Pranesachar
89
BOOK REVIEWS
The Story of Spin From Spectroscopy to Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
N Mukunda
Naturalists in a Nutshell: 90 Minute Biographies of Eminent Scientists
S Mahadevan
From Galileo to Einstein
G S Ranganath
Linear Algebra
D R Choudhari
96
INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nobel Prizes – 1998


Front Cover
This is a picture of Cray 2 supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray.

Back Cover
Seymour Cray
(1925 – 1996)
( Illustration by Prema Iyer )

 

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