American Journal of Physics February 2017

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February 2017 Issue, Volume 85, No. 2

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by Achim Sack and Thorsten Pöschel. DOI: 10.1119/1.4973527

A flowing hourglass changes its weight in the course of time because of the accelerated motion of its center of mass. While this insight is not new, it is frequently said that the effect is tiny and hardly measurable. Here, we present a simple experiment that allows the monitoring of weight as a function of time, and that shows that there are different stages of the weight variation. The experimental result is in quantitative agreement with theory.

Editorial

DOI: 10.1119/1.4973116

Papers

by Achim Sack and Thorsten Pöschel. DOI: 10.1119/1.4973527

by Felipe González-Cataldo, Gonzalo Gutiérrez, and Julio M. Yáñez. DOI: 10.1119/1.4966628

by Eugene Hecht. DOI: 10.1119/1.4972044

by Diego C. de Souza and Vitor R. Coluci. DOI: 10.1119/1.4972177

by Boyd F. Edwards, D. M. Riffe, Jeong-Young Ji, and William A. Booth. DOI: 10.1119/1.4973409

by John D. Norton. DOI: 10.1119/1.4966907

by Yu Liu, Chao Li, Huai-Yu Wang, and Yun-Song Zhou. DOI: 10.1119/1.4965884

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

by Art Hobson. DOI: 10.1119/1.4967925
by N. David Mermin. DOI: 10.1119/1.4969073

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS

. DOI: 10.1119/1.4972526

BOOK REVIEWS

. DOI: 10.1119/1.4966111

. DOI: 10.1119/1.4968558

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