Recent advances in classroom physics

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1833-1864

  Thacker, Beth Ann ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0242490680     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/66/10/R07     Document Type: Article

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