Resonance     journal of science education

October 2003      Volume 8  Number 10


90



Stamp on ‘Aryabhata’ (1975)

    

DEPARTMENTS



Editorial  
Editor’s Column 
G Nagendrappa

Article-in-a-Box

Satish Dhawan
Srinivas Bhogle

Dhawan and the Transformation of the Indian Institute of Science
R Narasimha

Think It Over

Ants in Pursuit
Awani Kumar



CLASSICS

Launching the First Indian Satellite

Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao, IISc)

GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
Statistical Concepts
K B Athreya, Mohan Delampady and T Krishnan
20 The Blue Baby Syndrome
Nitrate Poisoning in Humans
Deepanjan Majumdar
31 Bird Flight and Satish Dhawan: Some Thoughts
K R Y Simha
40 Doing Little Science with Dhawan
Roddam Narasimha
48 About Prof. Satish Dhawan
K Kasturirangan
Satish Dhawan – A Creative Teacher
A P J Abdul Kalam
   
  BOOK REVIEWS
90 What it Takes to Fly
S P Govinda Raju
   
 

Classroom

Point Set Topological Proof of ‘no retraction’ Theorem for 2 and 3 Dimensional Cases
Sourav Chakraborty

 

Classical Angular Momentum of Light: A Paradox
and its Resolution
K Vijay Kumar and N Kumar

The Madelung Constant of the Sodium Chloride Crystal Lattice
Sourav Das

Minimizing the Time of Travel for a Long-distance Train Journey: A Model
S N Maitra
   
  Information &
Announcements

SERC School on Coherent Optics and Applications
  Workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology

National Workshop on Recent Advances in Mathematics

Symposium on Molecules, Machines and Networks

Workshop on Single Molecule Biophysics

Front Cover
Median egret (Egretta intermedia) about to take-off
Photo Credit: Siddhartha Tambat, PhD student, CSA, IISc
(Colour scheme for cover by Jayant Rao)

Back Cover

 

Satish Dhawan
( 1920 – 2002)
(Illustration: N Deepak)

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