SS1. Articles and Letters to the Editor (published)
(Arranged chronologically in 5 folders)
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(Reprints):
Theory of the Continuous X-Ray Spectrum, reprinted from The Physical Review, Vol. 61, Nos. 9 and 10, pp. 584-590, May 1 and 15, 1942.
Theory of the Continuous X-Ray Spectrum: Short Wave Limit, reprinted from The Physical Review, Vol. 64, Nos. 9 and 10, pp. 276-278, November 1 and 15, 1943.
Inelastic Scattering of Slow Neutrons, reprinted from The Physical Review, Vol. 65, Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 1-20, January 1 and 15, 1944.
Continuous X-Ray Spectrum: Note to Experimenters, reprinted from The Physical Review, Vol. 65, Nos. 3 and 4, p. 150, February 1 and 15, 1944.
Inequalities for a Classical Eigenvalue Problem: Technical Report 37, Prepared Under Contract for the Office of Naval Research, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford California, May 17, 1954.
Inequalities for a Classical Eigenvalue Problem, reprinted for the Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 745-53, November 1954.
On Continuous Differentiability, reprinted from the American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. LXIV, No. 7, August-September 1957
A Note on the Base of Natural Logarithms, reprinted from the American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 67(4), April 1960.
Greatest Common Divisor of Several Integers and an Associated Linear Diophantine Equation, reprinted from the American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 67(7), August-September 1960.
A Proof of the Euler-Fermat Theorem, reprinted from the American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 68(3), March 1961.
Laws of Classical Motion: What's F? What's m? What's a?, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 29(10), 698-702, October 1961.
An Unusual Method of Solving the Harmonic-Oscillator Equation, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 29(12), pp. 830-831, December 1961.
Kepler's Third Law for Elliptical Orbits, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 30(11), pp. 813-814, November 1962.
Yes, What Is Happening to Calculus?, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 31(2), pp. 108-112, February 1963.
Internal Energy and Specific Heats of a Boyle’s-Law Gas, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 336-341, May 1963.
Kepler's Third Law "Without Calculus": Comments on a Note by Chapman, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 31(9), p. 728, September 1963.
Derivation of the Lorentz-Transformation Equations without a Linearity Assumption, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 32(4), pp. 260-264, April 1964.
Spring-Mass Correction in Uniform Circular Motion, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 32(5), pp. 370-76, May 1964.
Kepler's Third Law "without Calculus": a Reply to Professor Freeman, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 32(8), pp. 644-45, August 1964.
New Approach to Special Relativity, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 33(8), pp. 640-645, August 1965.
Correspondence: On Introducing the Boltzmann Distribution, reprinted from Contemporary Physics, Vol. 17(3), p. 234, February 1966.
Entropy and Temperature in Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 35(7), pp. 566-573, July 1967.
New Approach to Statistical Mechanics, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 35(8), pp. 710-727, August 1967.
Comment of "Special Relativity without the Postulate of Constancy of Light", reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 35(9), pp. 892-893, September 1967.
Heat Capacity of an Ideal Free-Election Gas: A Rigorous Derivation, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 37(12), pp. 1273-1279, December 1969.
Propagation of a Longitudinal Disturbance on a One-Dimensional Lattice, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 38(11), pp. 1289-1298, November 1970.
Normal-Mode Frequencies of Finite One-Dimensional Lattices with Single Mass Defect: Exact Solutions, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 39(5), pp. 484-502, May 1971.
Inverse-Square Gravitation from Kepler's First Two Laws: Extension of a Macklin Idea, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 40, pp. 357-358, February 1972.
On a fallacious proof of Earnshaw's theorem, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 44(4), pp. 392-393, April 1976.
Comment on "The conservation principles and Kepler's laws of planetary motion", reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 44(11), p. 1119, November 1976.
With James C. Rainwater. Inverse-square orbits: A geometric approach, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 47(3), pp. 223-227, March 1979.
Oscillations of a particle attached to a heavy spring: An application of the Stieltjes integral, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 47(6), pp. 508-514, June 1979.
Time variation of a vector attached to a moving frame, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 46(12), pp. 1060-1062, December 1979.
Approach to teaching thermodynamic equilibrium, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 47(12), p. 1088, December 1979.
Temperature, in Encyclopedia of Physics, 1st edition, eds. Lerner and Trigg. Addison-Wesley, 1980. pp. 1020-1021.
Dismantling a centuries-old myth: Newton's Principia and inverse-square orbits, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 50(7), pp. 610-616, July 1982.
A Diatribe in Defense of Beauty, in the Oberlin Alumni Magazine, pp. 9-10, Winter 1982.
Response to a Comment of an Objection to Newton's Logic, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 51(7), p. 583, July 1983.
Correspondence: Newton's Principia and Inverse-Square Orbits, reprinted from Contemporary Physics, Vol. 24(6), pp. 623-625, 1983.
Newton's Principia and the external gravitational field of a spherically symmetric mass distribution, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 52(10), pp. 883-890, October 1984.
Mostly Matrices: A Locally Produced Text, 1988.
Long-buried dismantling of a centuries-old myth: Newton's Principia and inverse-square orbits, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 57(9), pp. 846-849, September 1989.
A novel method for solving a class of differential equations, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 57(12), pp. 1144-1147, December 1989.
Temperature, in Encyclopedia of Physics, 2nd edition, VCH Publishers, 1991. P. 1246-1248.
Problem in Two Unknowns: Robert Hooke and a Worm in Newton's Apple, reprinted from The Physics Teacher, Vol. 30, pp. 282-288, May 1992.
Inverse-square orbits: Three little-known solutions and a novel integration technique, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 60(7), pp. 615-619, July 1992.
Newton's Principia and Inverse-Square Orbits: The Flaw Reexamined, reprinted from Historia Mathematica, Vol. 19, pp. 60-70, 1992.
A Worm in Newton’s Apple, 1993 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
The Heavier They Are, the Faster They Fall--An Elementary Rigorous Proof, reprinted from The Physics Teacher, Vol. 31, pp. 56-57, January 1993.
Letter: Mythology and Physics, in Wooster College Alumni Magazine, Summer 1994.
Newton’s Principia and Inverse-Square Orbits in a Resisting Medium: A Spiral of Twisted Logic, reprinted from Historia Mathematica, Vol. 25, pp. 281-289, 1998.
Electric Field of a Two-Charge Dipole: A Graphical Approach Extended, reprinted from The Physics Teacher, Vol. 38, pp. 430-431, October 2000.
Inverse Square Orbits in Newton’s Principia and Twentieth-Century Commentary Thereon, reprinted from Arch. Hist. Exact Sci., Vol. 55, pp. 137-162, 2000.
Two-Charge Dipole Revisited, reprinted from The Physics Teacher, Vol. 39, pg. 9, April 2001.
A Cannon’s Recoil Against a Tree: How the Range Increases, reprinted from The Physics Teacher, Vol. 40, pp. 12-14, April 2002.
Letters to Journal Editors, 1975, 1985, 1988, 1993, 2000, 2004, n.d.
SS2. Book Reviews, Responses, and Comments
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Book Review: Halliday, David and Robert Resnick, Physics for Students of Science and Engineering (1960). Review in American Journal of Physics, October 1961.
Book Review: Michels, Walter C. and Correll, Malcom, and Patterson, A.L. Foundations of Physics (1968). Review in American Journal of Physics, February 1970.
Book Review: Rosen, Joe, Symmetry Dicovered (1975). Review in The Physics Teacher, April 1976.
Response to "Note to the American Journal of Physics" by Alfred Bork, reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 47(12), p. 1093, December 1979.
Book Review: Pierce, John R., An Introduction to Information Theory (1980), n.d.
Book review: Heisenberg, Elisabeth, Inner Exile: Recollections of a Life with Werner Heisenberg (1984). Review in Isis, 76: 2: 282, 1985.
Book Review: Goldberg, Stanley, Understanding Relativity. Reprinted from American Journal of Physics, Vol. 53 (4), pp. 378-379, April 1985.
Book Review: Calkin, Melvin G., Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics (1996). Review in American Journal of Physics, Vol. 66 (3), pp. 261-262, March 1998.
Book Review: Lemons, Don S., Perfect Form: Variational Principles, Methods, and Applications in Elementary Physics (1997). Review in American Journal of Physics, Vol 66 (10), p. 935, October 1998.
Book Review: Goodstein, David L. and Judith R. Goodstein, Feynman’s Lost Lecture; The Motion of Planets Around the Sun, Review in The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 71-73, 1999.
Miscellaneous book reviews, unpublished manuscripts, responses, and comments, 1971-75, n.d.
Referee, 1959-1991 (8f)
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Referee, 1992-2000 (3f)
SS3. Manuscripts (unpublished)
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Rigorous Justification of the Canonical and Grand Canonical Distributions in Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, February 1968.
Electric and Magnetic Dipoles: A Rigorous Treatment, April 1972.
Newton’s Principia and the Laws of Classical Motion: A Nonperfunctory Examination.
Generating Functions for Harmonic-Oscillator Eigenfunctions in One and Two Dimensions: A New Derivation.
“Human Discharge Chain” Revisited: Solution in Closed Form.
Uniform Circular Motion: Demolition of A Spurious Derivation of a=(v2/r).
Faster and Neater: Pythagoras Solves a Differential Equation.
Conics and the Equal-Angles Property: Whispering-Gallery Phenomenon Unique to the Ellipse.
Linear Homogeneous Differential Equation with Constant Coefficients: A Friendly Matrix Route to the General Solution.
A Problem in Three Unknowns: Whats F? What’s m? What’s a
Gravity: A Product of the Masses.
Special Relativity without the Lorentz Transformation.
Miscellaneous unpublished writings and manuscripts, n.d.
