front cover

 

Transverse section of the ring porous wood (Red oak)
Credit: The University of Wisconsin Plant Teaching Collection.

back cover


P L Bhatnagar
(1912–1976)
( Illustration: Subhankar Biswas )

 

March 2010  Volume 15 Number 3 Contents

EDITORIAL
199
--- S Mahadevan
ARTICLE IN A BOX
200

P L Bhatnagar

--- Renuka Ravindran

SERIES ARTICLES
206

Aerobasics - An Introduction to Aeronautics

The Airplane Structure

-- S P Govinda Raju

GENERAL ARTICLES
223

Xylem Hydraulics: Rising Up and Higher!

--- Dilip Amritphale and Santosh K Sharma

232

Mahlburg's Work on Crank Functions

Ramanujan's Partitions Revisited

-- Nagesh Juluru and Arni S R Srinivasa Rao

CLASSROOM
244

Optimization of the Anderson Bridge Experiment

--- P Arun, Kuldeep Kumar and Mamta

257

Chaos from Jerk Circuit

--- K B Shaik and M K Mandal

REFLECTIONS
268

The Scientific Enterprise

Science in the Modern Indian Context

--- V V Raman

FACE TO FACE
277

The Challenge of Thor

--- Anil Kakodkar talks to SujataVaradarajan


Flowering Trees
--- (Credits: Varsha Kulkarni, IISc, Bangalore)