1

Surviving Maurras: Jacques Maritain's Jewish Question

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 198 KB
english, 2008
4

Time and place: Longitude

Year:
1996
File:
PDF, 500 KB
1996
5

What is the secret of ‘‘maintenance-free’’ car batteries?

Year:
1985
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1002 KB
english, 1985
6

Short Foucault pendulum: A way to eliminate the precession due to ellipticity

Year:
1981
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 552 KB
english, 1981
7

How things work. Digital electronic balances: mass or weight?

Year:
1991
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 831 KB
english, 1991
9

The Foucault pendulum as a murder weapon and a physicist’s delight

Year:
1990
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 4.64 MB
english, 1990
10

What can a dimple do for a skipping stone?

Year:
1988
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 9.05 MB
english, 1988
11

The air bag: An exercise in Newton’s laws

Year:
1985
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.77 MB
english, 1985
12

Frisbees, can lids, and gyroscopic effects

Year:
1983
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 398 KB
english, 1983
13

What does the drinking bird know about jet lag?

Year:
1989
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 2.50 MB
english, 1989
14

Sensing the rotation of the Earth

Year:
1992
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.04 MB
english, 1992
15

Ionization smoke alarms

Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 414 KB
english, 1984
16

How things work: Beyond the frisbee

Year:
1986
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.42 MB
english, 1986
17

Why shake your fever thermometer?—and more

Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 333 KB
english, 1998
18

The Pop-Pop boat

Year:
1997
File:
PDF, 433 KB
1997
23

Three intuition teasers

Year:
1991
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 924 KB
english, 1991
24

Making light bulbs last forever

Year:
1983
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 449 KB
english, 1983
25

Chattering, the chatterring, and the hula hoop

Year:
1992
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.11 MB
english, 1992
26

How things work: A plywood goose that seems to fly

Year:
1986
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 497 KB
english, 1986
27

How to measure the flow of liquids

Year:
1989
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.70 MB
english, 1989
28

A Spinning top, Lenz’s law and electric watches

Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 398 KB
english, 1984
29

How to pump blood without a heart

Year:
1984
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 628 KB
english, 1984
30

The Doppler ball: A novel use of the piezo-electric field

Year:
1988
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.59 MB
english, 1988
31

Foucault pendulum ‘‘wall clock’’

Year:
1995
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1016 KB
english, 1995
32

Liquid crystal displays: watches, calculators and (soon) cars

Year:
1983
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 424 KB
english, 1983
33

Bar codes are on everything—What do they say?

Year:
1986
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.86 MB
english, 1986
34

Negative contrails

Year:
1981
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 373 KB
english, 1981
35

Some of the physics of cardiac pacemakers

Year:
1986
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 456 KB
english, 1986
37

The quartz watch with digital readout

Year:
1994
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 1.13 MB
english, 1994
43

The first mechanical clock and its primitive escapement

Year:
1998
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 542 KB
english, 1998