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Publications M. J. Ruiz, "Kinematic Measurements from YouTube Videos," The Physics Teacher 47, 200 (April 2009). pdf M. J. Ruiz, "A Black Hole in Our Galactic Center," The Physics Teacher 46, 10 (January 2008), featured on the cover of the journal issue. pdf M. J. Ruiz and Jeremy Abee (Student), "Doppler Football," The Physics Teacher 44, 440 (October 2006). pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Aliens or the SR-71 Blackbird?" The Physics Teacher 44, 229 (April 2006). pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Lenz’s Law Magic Trick," The Physics Teacher 44, 96 (February 2006). pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Car Hits Boy on Bicycle," Physics Education 40, 556 (No. 6, November 2005). pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Don’t Look at the Sun," Physics Education 40, 411 (No. 5, September 2005). pdf. High resolution jpg file (710 kB jpg) of figure 1, showing a retina damaged by viewing the Sun, courtesy Dr. Mark Clark, photo by Dr. Charles Hunter, Anderson, SC, USA. M. J. Ruiz, "Prescribing Eyeglasses for Myopia and Hyperopia," The Physics Teacher 43, 88 (February 2005), featured on the cover of the journal issue. pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Kepler's Third Law Without a Calculator," The Physics Teacher 42, 530 (December 2004). pdf Publication of Imagery (designed by student Terry Robinson, photo by John Warner) from "Illusions with Plane Mirrors," (featured in 1987 on the cover of The Physics Teacher, M. J. Ruiz and T. Robinson). Republished as one of the color plates in the text by T. D. Rossing and C. J. Chiaverina, Light Science: Physics and the Visual Arts (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999). E. Katz, M. Moseley, T. Rizzo, and M. J. Ruiz, eds., The Modern World: Mid-17th to Mid-20th Century (Pegasus Press, Asheville, 1999), humanities reader-textbook for Humanities 324. M. J. Ruiz, "Light and Visual Phenomena," in Tom L. Hall, Utilizing Multimedia ToolBook 3.0 (Boyd & Fraser, Danvers, MA, 1996), p. 347, plus the software appearing on the accompanying CD ROM. M. J. Ruiz and M. A. Ruiz (graphics artist), "Constellation Tutor," in Tom L. Hall, Utilizing Multimedia ToolBook 3.0 (Boyd & Fraser, Danvers, MA, 1996), p. 348, plus the software appearing on the accompanying CD ROM. M. J. Ruiz and E. M. Ruiz, "Prototype for Music Ear-Training," in Tom L. Hall, Utilizing Multimedia ToolBook 3.0 (Boyd & Fraser, Danvers, MA, 1996), p. 349, plus the software appearing on the accompanying CD ROM. J. G. Stevens and M. J. Ruiz, "Mössbauer Spectroscopy," in The Encyclopedia of Advanced Materials, edited by Robert W. Cahn (Pergamon Press, New York, 1994). M. J. Ruiz, "Interactive Graphics Software for the General Student in an Optics course," p. 485 in 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education (McGraw Hill, New York, 1992). "EDUCOM Spotlights Classroom Technology: Consortium Identifies 101 Examples of Technology Used Successfully on Campuses," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 16, 1991, p. A26 (see p. A35 for Ruiz abstract). M. J. Ruiz, "Book Review: What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics" by Craig F. Bohren, American Journal of Physics 60, 381, (April 1992). M. J. Ruiz, "Interactive Graphics Software for the General Student in an Optics Course," p. 17 in The Joe Wyatt Challenge (EDUCOM/EUIT, Washington, DC, 1991), abstracts of the 101 awards given in the nation for innovations of use of technology in higher education. M. J. Ruiz, Abstract: "Botanical Gardens Software Package," Masters of Innovation II, p. 232 (Zenith Data Systems, Mount Prospect, Illinois, 1990). M. J. Ruiz, "Interactive Optics Software for the General Student," Tools for Learning: Agenda IBM Academic Computing Conference, June 19-21, 1990, (IBM Academic Information Systems, Milford, Connecticut, 1990). M. J. Ruiz, "Interactive Optics Software for the General Student," The Conference on Computers in Physics Instruction Proceedings, edited by E. F. Redish and J. S. Risley, 125 (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1990). M. J. Ruiz, "Orthogonality Relation for Covariant Harmonic-Oscillator Wave Functions," Physical Review D 10, 4306 (1974), republished in its entirety in M. E. Noz and Y. S. Kim (eds.) Special Relativity and Quantum Theory, p. 265 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1988). M. J. Ruiz, Book Review: "An Attractive Optics Text for The General Student," Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography by Falk, Brill, and Stork (Harper & Row, NY, 1986), The Physics Teacher 26, 252 (1988). M. J. Ruiz, "The Human Body's Response to Glucose and Three Physical Models," American Journal of Physics 55, 641 (July 1987). pdf M. J. Ruiz and T. L. Robinson (student), "Illusions With Plane Mirrors," The Physics Teacher 25, 206 (April, 1987). Cover Article. pdf The theoretical derivation in M. J. Ruiz, "Orthogonality Relation for Covariant Harmonic-Oscillator Wave Functions," Physical Review D 10, 4306 (1974) reproduced in Y. S. Kim and M. E. Noz, Theory and Applications of the Poincaré Group, p. 130 (D. Reidel, Boston, 1986). M. J. Ruiz, "Fine Structure of Quarkonium in the Covariant Harmonic-Oscillator Quark Model," Physical Review D 33, 1640 (1986). pdf J. G. Stevens and M. J. Ruiz, "Mössbauer Spectroscopy," in Encyclopedia of Material Science and Engineering, edited by Michael B. Bever, 3117 (Pergamon Press, New York, 1986). M. J. Ruiz, "Modular Synthesizers," The Physics Teacher 23, 138 (March 1985), an invited article. pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Nonstrange Hyperfine Splitting in the Relativistic Harmonic-Oscillator Quark Model," Physical Review D 30, 683 (1984). pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Another Look at the Roche Limit," Physics 13 News (October 1983), published by the Physics Department of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and distributed internationally. J. G. Stevens and M. J. Ruiz, "Mössbauer Spectroscopy," Chapter 6 in Treatise on Analytical Chemistry Part I, Volume 10 Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., edited by P. J. Elving, M. M. Bursey, and I. M. Kolthoff, 439 (John Wiley, New York, 1983). M. J. Ruiz, "Camera Optics," The Physics Teacher 20, 372 (September 1982), an invited article and cover article. pdf M. J. Ruiz, "The Teleconverter Problem," American Journal of Physics 49, 1006 (November 1981). M. J. Ruiz, "The Physics of Visual Acuity," The Physics Teacher 18, 457 (September, 1980) pdf; "Visual Activity Revisited," The Physics Teacher 18, 560 (November 1980), a letter to the Editor. pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Covariant Harmonic Oscillators and the Axial-Vector Coupling Constant," Physical Review D 12, 2922 (1975). pdf M. J. Ruiz, "Orthogonality Relation for Covariant Harmonic-Oscillator Wave Functions," Physical Review D 10, 4306 (1974). pdf