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Mace, W. K.; And Others – School Science Review, 1978
A discussion of levers, moments of inertia, fulcrums and forces involved in the action of boat rowing is presented. (CP)
Descriptors: Force, Instruction, Instructional Materials, Mechanics (Physics)
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Lichtenberg, D. B.; Wills, J. G. – American Journal of Physics, 1978
Addresses the problem of the optimum angle at which a putter should release the shot in order to achieve maximum distance. (BB)
Descriptors: Athletics, College Science, Higher Education, Mathematical Models
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Nelson, D. F. – American Journal of Physics, 1977
Demonstrates that the assumption of a single-frequency wave does not eliminate the effect of frequency dispersion upon energy transport velocity nor upon energy density. (Author/SL)
Descriptors: College Science, Energy, Higher Education, Mechanics (Physics)
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Farina, J. E. G. – American Journal of Physics, 1977
Demonstrates that the standard deviation of the position probability of a particle moving freely in one dimension is a function of the standard deviation of its velocity distribution and time in classical or quantum mechanics. (SL)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Mechanics (Physics), Motion
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Mahan, Bruce H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1978
Discusses an alternative to the mean free path method of presenting the treatment of transport processes in a physical chemistry course. (SL)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education
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Baiera, Joseph C. – Physics Teacher, 1978
Describes an experiment for determining the acceleration of a projectile. (SL)
Descriptors: Experiments, Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), Motion
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Physics Teacher, 1978
Discusses the description of pendulum motion on the Earth's surface utilizing mathematics at the level of average high school students. (SL)
Descriptors: Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), Motion, Physics
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Woodsum, Harvey C.; Brownstein, K. R. – American Journal of Physics, 1977
Defines and investigates a moment of inertia tensor for a quantum mechanical wave packet. (SL)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Kinetics, Mechanics (Physics)
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Frederick, Carl – American Journal of Physics, 1978
Demonstrates that a particle traveling in a helical path provides a mechanical model describing the quantum-mechanical wave function formalism. (SL)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Mathematical Models
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Franklin, Allan – Physics Teacher, 1978
Reviews the historical development of concepts of motion from the time of Aristotle to Newton. (SL)
Descriptors: Energy, Force, History, Mechanics (Physics)
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Smith, Frank A., Jr. – Physics Teacher, 1978
Describes experiments simulating the mechanics of the human elbow and back. (SL)
Descriptors: Force, Human Body, Mechanics (Physics), Motion
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Maurone, Philip A.; Wunderlich, Francis J. – American Journal of Physics, 1978
Presents results of analyses of flat and conical depressed target surfaces used in a bouncing ball experiment. (SL)
Descriptors: College Science, Force, Higher Education, Laboratory Experiments
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Stoller, Robert – American Journal of Physics, 1978
Describes apparatus for electrostatic painting and two different Foucault pendulum demonstrations. (SL)
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Equipment, Higher Education, Instruction
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Grant, Barbara M. – Theory Into Practice, 1977
The study reported in this paper developed a categorization of teacher physical motion in relation to verbal actions and analyzed two random samples of such motion as a basis for posing ten hypotheses concerning teacher nonverbal behavior. (MJB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Body Language, Classification
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Ball, Thomas S.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1977
An automated procedure for range of motion training was tried with two cerebral palsied retarded young men. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Electromechanical Aids, Mental Retardation, Motion
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