American Journal of Physics

Papers
(The H4-Index of American Journal of Physics is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Motion of a charged particle in the electric field of a uniformly charged finite wire43
Graphical analysis of an oscillator with constant magnitude sliding friction39
Electric field lines of an arbitrarily moving charged particle31
Whose work matters? A tool for identifying and developing more inclusive physics textbooks20
Complementarity and entanglement in a simple model of inelastic scattering20
Playing melodies on a single string by exciting harmonics using the Lorentz force18
Motion of a charged particle in the static fields of an infinite straight wire16
Comment on projectile motion with quadratic drag using an inverse velocity expansion13
Quantum mechanics: A historical-linguistic perspective12
Erratum: “Smooth double barriers in quantum mechanics” [Am. J. Phys. 78, 1352–1360 (2010)]11
Escape from a one-dimensional metastable potential well revisited11
Infinite-fold energy degeneracy in 2D square lattices of magnetic spheres11
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