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European Journal of Physics

January 2009 Volume 30, Number 1

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Number of articles: 4

  1. Operating a Geiger-Muller Tube Using a PC Sound Card

    A A. Azooz

    In this paper, a simple MATLAB-based PC program that enables the computer to function as a replacement for the electronic scalar-counter system associated with a Geiger-Muller (GM) tube is... More

    pp. 57-67

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  2. The Stability of the Catenary Shapes for a Hanging Cable of Unspecified Length

    A Mareno & L Q. English

    It has long been known that when a cable of specified length is hung between two poles, it takes the shape of a catenary--a hyperbolic cosine function. In this paper, we study a variation of this... More

    pp. 97-108

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  3. Modelling Digital Thunder

    Francesco Blanco, Paola La Rocca, Catia Petta & Francesco Riggi

    An educational model simulation of the sound produced by lightning in the sky has been employed to demonstrate realistic signatures of thunder and its connection to the particular structure of the ... More

    pp. 139-145

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  4. Sketching Graphs--An Efficient Way of Probing Students' Conceptions

    Vida Kariz Merhar, Gorazd Planinsic & Mojca Cepic

    This paper describes a teaching method that allows for the fast and early detection of students' conceptions, misconceptions and their development. The empirical study of two examples where the... More

    pp. 163-175

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