American Journal of Physics

Article	Citations
Infinite-fold energy degeneracy in 2D square lattices of magnetic spheres	46
Motion of a charged particle in the static fields of an infinite straight wire	40
Comment on projectile motion with quadratic drag using an inverse velocity expansion	22
Quantum mechanics: A historical-linguistic perspective	20
Motion of a charged particle in the electric field of a uniformly charged finite wire	19
Graphical analysis of an oscillator with constant magnitude sliding friction	16
Erratum: “Smooth double barriers in quantum mechanics” [Am. J. Phys. 78, 1352–1360 (2010)]	15
Whose work matters? A tool for identifying and developing more inclusive physics textbooks	12
Resource Letter DM1: Dark matter: An overview of theory and experiment	11
Complementarity and entanglement in a simple model of inelastic scattering	11
Playing melodies on a single string by exciting harmonics using the Lorentz force	11
The crane operator's trick and other shenanigans with a pendulum	10
Data science education in undergraduate physics: Lessons learned from a community of practice	10
Elusive: How Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass	10
Electric field lines of an arbitrarily moving charged particle	10
An experimental demonstration of level attraction with coupled pendulums	10
Static dielectric response and screening in solid state physics: Why dimensionality matters in dielectrics	10
Online “Advanced Labs” in physics	10
Quantifying biomolecular diffusion with a “spherical cow” model	9
Escape from a one-dimensional metastable potential well revisited	8
The basic concepts determining electromagnetic shielding	8
The right way to introduce complex numbers in damped harmonic oscillators	8
An undergraduate lab experiment on matched filtering as used in gravitational wave detection	8
Energy-mass equivalence from Maxwell equations	7
The e/m experiment: Student exploration into systematic uncertainty	7

Stereographic projection to and from the Bloch sphere: Visualizing solutions of the Bloch equations and the Bloch–Riccati equation	7
A Bose horn antenna radio telescope (BHARAT) design for 21 cm hydrogen line experiments for radio astronomy teaching	7
Making digital aquatint with the Ising model	6
Visual relativistic mechanics	6
Color and thickness of soap films	6
Resources-oriented instruction: What does it mean, and what might it look like?	6
In this issue: October 2023	6
Skier and loop-the-loop with friction	6
An analysis of the large amplitude simple pendulum using Fourier series	6
Using Hexbugs™ to model gas pressure and electrical conduction: A pandemic-inspired distance lab	6
In this issue: July 2024	6
Electrically connected and magnetically coupled inductors: Aiding or opposing fluxes?	6
The field inside an infinite solenoid of arbitrary cross section using Ampère's law	6
Perfect and imperfect pitchfork bifurcations in a V-shaped spring-mass system: Comment on “Hysteresis in a simple V-shaped spring-mass system” [Am. J. Phys. 89, 663–665 (2021)]	6
Comment on “Experimental determination of heat capacities and their correlation with theoretical predictions” [Am. J. Phys. 79(11), 1099–1103 (2011)]	5
Simple precession calculation for Mercury: A linearization approach	5
Illustrations of loosely bound and resonant states in atomic nuclei	5
Toward a more coherent and profession-related physics teacher education: Linking subject-specific and physics education content in the study entry phase	5
Measuring the viscosity of air with soapy water, a smartphone, a funnel, and a hose: An experiment for undergraduate physics students	5
Comment on “Coefficient of rolling friction: Lab experiment”	5
Self-inductance and magnetic flux	5
How energy is conserved in Newtonian gravity	5
In this issue: October 2022	4
Probing coherent phonons in the advanced undergraduate laboratory	4
Decoherence, entanglement, and information in the electron double-slit experiment with monitoring	4
Memories of a mid-20th century electrical measurements laboratory and its instrumentation	4
In this issue: February 2022	4
In this issue: January 2023	4
2024 Lillian McDermott medal lecture: You only get one—My life pursuing excellence in physics education	4
In this issue: March 2025	4
Thermal damping of the motion of a piston: Any irreversibility implies dissipation	4
Analysis of ill-conditioned cases of a mass moving on a sphere with friction	4
General formalism for calculating the thermal efficiency of thermodynamic cycles defined in a p–V diagram	4
Arduino cavity controller for LIGO analogy lab [Am. J. Phys. 87, 44 (2019)]	4
In this issue: December 2024	4
A simple Minkowskian time-travel spacetime	4
Comment on “Atom-emitting-a-photon solved on the back of an envelope” [Am. J. Phys. 91, 576 (2023)]	4
Investigating the magnetic field outside small accelerator magnet analogs via experiment, simulation, and theory	4
In this issue: March 2024	3
Practical study of optical stellar interferometry	3
Nonlinear oscillator acceleration and period variation with amplitude	3
In this issue: February 2024	3
A simple derivation of relativistic energy and momentum	3
In this issue: May 2022	3
Relativistic spin-0 particle in a box: Bound states, wave packets, and the disappearance of the Klein paradox	3
Quantitative measurement of birefringence in transparent films across the visible spectrum	3
Gravitational waves without general relativity redux	3
Surface plasmon resonance sensing in the advanced physics laboratory	3
Comment on “Thermodynamics of Benford's first digit law” [Am. J. Phys. 87, 787–790 (2019)]	3
A revolution in physics education was forecast in 1989, why hasn't it happened? What will it take?	3

In this issue: October 2025	3
Active charge and discharge of a capacitor: Scaling solution and energy optimization	3
Bringing three-dimensional learning to undergraduate physics: Insight from an introductory physics laboratory course	3
In this issue: April 2024	3
Event-based analysis of convergence to energy equipartition	3
Resource Letter CP-3: Computational physics	3
Simulation led optical design assessments: Emphasizing practical and computational considerations in an upper division physics lecture course	3
Is contour integration essential? Alternatives for beginning physics students	3
Coriolis acceleration and critical slowing-down: A quantitative laboratory experiment	3
A new microscopic look into pressure fields and local buoyancy	3
Velocity reciprocity and the relativity principle	3
Conic transfer arcs for Kepler's problem	3
Resource Letter: Synthesis of the elements in stars	3
Finding and improving bounds of real functions by thermodynamic arguments	3
Teaching magnetism with bivectors	3
Gamma camera imaging in an undergraduate physics course	3
Unexplored aspects of a variational principle in electrostatics	3
Progressive quantum collapse	3
Modeling the induced voltage of a disk magnet in free fall	3
Hyperbolic times in Minkowski space	2
The Hohmann transfer as an application for teaching introductory physics	2
BOOK REVIEW	2
Employing an operator form of the Rodrigues formula to calculate wavefunctions without differential equations	2
Charging a supercapacitor through a lamp: A power-law RC decay	2
Relativistic acceleration in noninertial frames of a line of objects	2
Perihelion precession in power-law potentials: Hénon's theorem	2
The computer revolution in physics education? It's here!	2
Treating disorder in introductory solid state physics	2
BOOKS RECEIVED	2
Dark Matter: Evidence, Theory, and Constraints	2
Invariants: Finding constancy in a sea of change	2
Numerical simulation projects in micromagnetics with Jupyter	2
Pandemic modeling with the game of life	2
A gentle introduction to the non-equilibrium physics of trajectories: Theory, algorithms, and biomolecular applications	2
Solving introductory physics problems recursively using iterated maps	2
Resource Letter MP-4: The Manhattan Project and related nuclear research	2
Calculation and measurement of center of mass: An all-in-one activity using Tangram puzzles	2
Erratum: “Advanced lab on Fresnel equations” [Am. J. Phys. 83, 935–941 (2015)]	2
Demonstrating two-particle interference with a one-dimensional delta potential well	2
Gravitoelectromagnetism: Removing action-at-a-distance in teaching physics	2
Splitting the second: Designing a physics course with an emphasis on timescales of ultrafast phenomena	2
Climate sensitivity from radiative-convective equilibrium: A chalkboard approach	2
Bose and the angular momentum of the photon	2
A short pre-history of quantum gravity	2
Physics writing in the era of artificial intelligence	2
Exploring entropy by counting microstates of the p-state paramagnet	2
Elongation of a ferrofluid droplet near a permanent magnet: A tidal or magnetic energy effect?	2
Cosmological horizons	2
In this issue: November 2022	2
2024 AAPT award citations at the winter meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana	2
Teaching rotational physics with bivectors	2
A simple electronic circuit demonstrating Hopf bifurcation for an advanced undergraduate laboratory	2
Wigner rotation and Euler angle parametrization	2
In this issue: July 2025	2
Exact solutions for the inverse problem of the time-independent Schrödinger equation	2
Implementing a course-based authentic learning experience with upper- and lower-division physics classes	2
An in-fiber Mach–Zehnder strain sensor for studying multimode interference of light	2
A modern interpretation of Newton's theorem of revolving orbits	2
Electrostatic shape energy differences of one-dimensional line charges	2
Comment on ‘Dynamics of a bouncing capsule: An impulse model vs a Hertzian model’	2
Labor-based grading practices in the physics classroom	2
A Lorentz force law with velocity differences	2
Predicting the axial deformation of an extensible garden hose when pressurized	2
Why and how to implement worked examples in upper division theoretical physics	2
Oblique collision of a soft rubber disk with a rigid surface	2
A tabletop experiment for speed of light measurement using a Red Pitaya STEMlab board	2
2024 David Halliday and Robert Resnick Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching Lecture: It's not business, it's personal. Teaching large classes, one student at a time	2
Orbital mechanics with the Global Positioning System	2
The edge profile of liquid spills	2
On the bifurcation behavior of a folded notebook page	2
Low-cost quadrature optical interferometer	2
Shortest derivation of time-independent perturbation theory	2
Determining the difference between local acceleration and local gravity: Applications of the equivalence principle to relativistic trajectories	2
Using smartphone photographs of the Moon to acquaint students with non-Euclidean geometry	2
Resource Letter ALC-1: Advanced Laboratory Courses	2
In this issue: Special collection on the environment, sustainability, and climate change	2
ChatGPT-4 with Code Interpreter can be used to solve introductory college-level vector calculus and electromagnetism problems	2
Outcomes of teaching physics using action-adventure scenarios with minimal direct instruction	2
Call for papers: Special issue on motivating physics learning through research applications	1
Vertical quasistatic Poiseuille flow: Theory and experiment	1

Book review—Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change	1
Photon under repeated transverse Lorentz boosts: An apparent paradox	1
Resource Letter BP-1: Biological physics	1
How the air slows a closing book	1
Does active participation in a daily quiz (TOPday) improve long-term retention in biomechanics?	1
Understanding exotic black hole orbits using effective potentials	1
Space pirates: A pursuit curve problem involving retarded time	1
A course on climate change and sustainable building design	1
Maxwell's color box: Retracing the path of color matching experiments	1
Modelling the Earth's magnetic field	1
On the Brownian motion of a colloid trapped in optical tweezers: Experiments and simulations	1
Effects of greenhouse gases on Earth, Venus, and Mars: Beyond the one-blanket model	1
Sliding and rolling along circular tracks in a vertical plane	1
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist	1
Simulating spin dynamics with quantum computers	1
Energy density of any capacitor or inductor	1
Simple realization of the polytropic process with a finite-sized reservoir	1
Using a smartphone camera to explore ray optics beyond the thin lens equation	1
Numerical simulation of mirages above water bodies	1
Virtual lab: Using spreadsheets to simulate experiments measuring viscosity, BJT NPN curves, and RL circuits	1
Understanding two-dimensional tractor magnets: Theory and realizations	1
In this issue: June 2024	1
Comment on “Bouncing on a slope” [Am. J. Phys. 89, 143–146 (2021)]	1
Climate teaching tidbits	1
Elastic collisions on a simulated circular air track	1
State reduction?	1
Extending the discussion of entropy	1
Theoretical and experimental examination of simple coaxial photonic crystals for undergraduate teaching	1
Efimov effect for two particles on a semi-infinite line	1
A glimpse of matrix mechanics via the harmonic oscillator	1
An undergraduate physics experiment to measure the frequency-dependent impedance of inductors using an Anderson bridge	1
Scattering shadows	1
Electromagnetic induction: How the “flux rule” has superseded Maxwell's general law	1
An alternative way to solve the small oscillations problem	1
Special issue on teaching about the environment, sustainability, and climate change	1
Metastable states in a 1D quantum system	1
Initial evidence that peer instruction is less effective for physics students with lower quantitative preparation in a highly heterogeneous class	1
Unveiling the interdisciplinary character of negative pressure	1
In this issue: July 2023	1
Exploration of the Q factor for a parallel RLC circuit	1
Entropy production diagrams	1
In this issue: September 2024	1
A simple setup for the determination of the cosmic muon magnetic moment	1
Daniel Davis, Jr., and his Manual of Magnetism	1
Design-oriented analysis	1
Quantum fields from dimensional analysis: Applications in condensed matter systems	1
Breakdown of the connection between symmetries and conservation laws for semiholonomic systems	1
Erratum: “A compact disc under skimming light rays” [Am. J. Phys. 86(3), 169 (2018)]	1
A Standard Model Workbook	1
Coupled oscillations of the Wilberforce pendulum unveiled by smartphones	1
2025 Paul W. Zitzewitz excellence in K-12 teaching award: Getting by with a little help from my friends	1
Williamson theorem in classical, quantum, and statistical physics	1
Response to Rod Cross's Letter	1
Conditional probability as found in nature: Facilitated diffusion	1
Helping students apply superposition principle in problems involving spherical, cylindrical, and planar charge distributions	1
2025 Melba Newell Phillips Medal award talk: Who's your wingman?	1
The emergence of classical mixtures from an entangled quantum state	1
In this issue: September 2025	1
Coherent diffraction imaging in the undergraduate laboratory	1
From sucking worms to Windkessel: The physics of an early eighteenth century firefighting device	1
Magnetic hyperfine interaction made easier	1
A colored line on an optical disk	1
Monte Carlo, blocking, and inference: How to measure the renormalization group flow	1
The mass spectrum of quarkonium using matrix mechanics	1
The law of entropy increase for bodies in mutual thermal contact	1
BOOKS RECEIVED	1
Educational Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor	1
Measuring the speed of light using optical feedback from a picosecond diode laser	1
Beautiful experiments: An illustrated history of experimental science	1
Cost-effective measurement of magnetostriction in nanoscale thin films through an optical cantilever displacement method	1
Concepts in Monte Carlo sampling	1
Fermilab humor	1
What is the maximum radius of cold planets?	1
A simple treatment of the trolley paradox	1
A wave packet approach to resonant scattering	1
Comment on “Spectral shifts in general relativity,” [Am. J. Phys. 62(10), 903–907 (1994)]	1
On the normalization and density of 1D scattering states	1
Exploring complex pattern formation with convolutional neural networks	1
In this issue: August 2023	1
2022 AAPT award citations at the summer meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan	1
The hardest-hit home run?	1
An undergraduate laboratory experiment on nucleation and growth via polarizing optical microscopy of semicrystalline polymers	1
Comment on “Avoid propagation of typos with numerical methods” [Am. J. Phys. 89(1), 9 (2021)]	1
Adaptable research-based materials for teaching quantum mechanics	1
Adiabatic invariance and its application to Wien's complete displacement law of blackbody radiation	1
Phase plot of a gravity pendulum acquired via the MEMS gyroscope and magnetic field sensors of a smartphone	1
Continuous fractional component Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo	1
Paragliders' launch trajectory is universal	1
Multivalued specific heat	1
An alternative derivation of propagator for a linear potential	1
An algebra and trigonometry-based proof of Kepler's first law	1
Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect demonstrated for sound waves from a waterfall: An experimental, numerical, and analytical study	1
Erratum: “All objects and some questions” [Am. J. Phys. 91, 819–825 (2023)]	1
Advanced undergraduate lab on quantum beats	1
Erratum: “Fraunhofer diffraction by a thin wire and Babinet's principle” [Am. J. Phys. 73, 83–84 (2005)]	1