European Journal of Physics
January 2009 Volume 30, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 4
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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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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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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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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