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Science 9 December 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5754, p. 1620
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119705
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PHYSICS:
Many Perspectives on Swinging

Alberto G. Rojo

The Pendulum
A Case Study in Physics
by Gregory L. Baker and James A. Blackburn
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. 300 pp. $89.50, £45. ISBN 0-19-856754-5.
Offering the pendulum as a case study of a physical system, the authors examine it from the perspectives of elementary and advanced classical physics, chaos dynamics, and quantum mechanics.

The reviewer is in the Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA. E-mail: rojo{at}oakland.edu

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