Physics Teacher

Article	Citations
Answer to April 2024 Figuring Physics Question	23
The Unexpected Behavior of a Projectile’s Distance from Its Launch Point	20
Coffee painting*	20
Reply to Ford	13
2025: The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology	13
Clickers in the ’60s at a TYC?	12
Answer to February 2023 Figuring Physics Question	11
Hanging by a thread	10
Teach beyond the syllabus, occasionally	8
Constructing Wave Functions Using Mathematical Reasoning	7
Measuring Atmospheric Radon Levels Using a Cloud Chamber	7
Infrared spectroscopy with the RSpec Explorer?	7
A textbook my students actually use	7
Alternative Solution to the September 2022 Challenge “Second to one”	7
Veritasium: Why Super Glue is Perfect for Gluing Skin	7
Fluid experiments with a U-tube or U-shaped density manometer	7
Physics with Elliot	7
Direct Detection of Alpha Particles with Solid-State Electronics	6
“Science without the Gobbledygook” by Sabine Hossenfelder	6
Fields of graduate study for physics bachelors one year after degree	6
Geometry and the Cause of the Seasons: The Changing Hours of Daylight and Elevation Angle of the Sun at Noon	6
Using a Mobile Phone to Demonstrate Thermal Properties of Materials	6
The Cross Diagram for Kinematics Problems	6
2C and not 2C	6
Hollywood Trial Features Kinematics and the Work–Energy Theorem	5

Separation of Peas and Carrots in Boiling Water	5
Using the En-ROADS future climate simulator	5
Storytelling and Sensemaking Physics from Newspapers	5
Solution to the May 2023 Challenge: May u B happy*	5
Solution to the March 2023 Challenge 2C and not 2C*	5
A Nonlinear Least-Squares Approach for Estimating the Refractive Index of a Liquid	5
The 3D-Printed Twirly Whirly: A New Spin on a Toy for Teaching Moment of Inertia	5
Take-Home Labs at the University of Chicago	5
Figuring Physics Answer to October Question	5
Answer to November 2021 Figuring Physics	5
Autopsy of a failed extension policy	5
Answer to December 2022 Figuring Physics Question	5
Meeting Laboratory Course Learning Goals Remotely via Custom Home Experiment Kits	4
Wien’s Displacement Law and Blackbody Radiation Quartiles	4
Systematic Errors and the Chappaquiddick Accident	4
Better interactive astronomy lectures using the Laser-Assisted Student Engagement Routine	4
POWER LINES	4
Low-Cost Experiment to Determine the Moment of Inertia of the Fidget Spinner by Video Analysis	4
A Simple Way to Demonstrate and Explain Different Facets of Mirages	4
Boiling water by doing work	4
Teach Poiseuille First — A Call for a Paradigm Shift in Fluid Dynamics Education	4
HOLLOW EARTH	4
Answer to October 2021 Figuring Physics Question	4
Methods to Select the Scales and Starting Values for Axes in Linear Graphs	4
Apparatus Named After Our Academic Ancestors – V	4
An Analysis of Shadows Made from Sunlight Reflected by a Curved Surface	4
Let’s start with the ABCs	4
Solution to the November, 2022 Challenge Pros and cones.*	3
October Figuring Physics Answer	3
Bruce Yeany’s 300-mph Raw Egg Pneumatic Cannon	3
Summer Professional Development for Physics Teachers	3
Answer to October 2022 Figuring Physics	3
The circle of light: A new lab on total internal reflection	3
An amplitude with an attitude	3
Call for papers on environment, sustainability, and climate change	3
Totally tubular	3
Arch and Cable Suspended Bridges	3
Shrub sphericity	3
The Ball Bearing High Voltage Generator – A Demonstration Apparatus Illustrating Electrostatic Concepts at Multiple Levels	3
Experimental evidence for the Biot–Savart law	3
Inexpensive Single and Double Slits Using a Fine-Toothed Comb	3
IMAGE REVERSAL	3
Poisson Distribution: Derivation and a Computer Simulation	3
Drop Tower Physics II	3
Solution to the February, 2021 Challenge Mirror, mirror… and the wall!*	3
Summer Professional Development for Physics Teachers	3
From Balancing a Stick to Tightrope Walking: How Added Mass Influences the Act of Balancing	3
Climate change and sustainability in physics class?	3
Extending angles into the vastness of space	3
Shrub sphericity: Solutions for Fermi Questions, January 2023	3

Videos Helping Plan Physics Instruction for Blind Students	3
Practical Engineering Does Power Distribution System Grounding	3
From B or not from B	3
Using a science museum field trip for an alternative physics final exam	3
TWO SPACE HEATERS	3
Implications of Negative Energy by Dr. Katerina Visnjic	3
Conductors, Insulators, and Solar Cells: A Simple Introduction	3
Scaling with A4 and the Golden Ratio via “Metric Paper and Everything in the Universe”	3
A Gauss’s Law Computer Simulation in GlowScript	3
Note on acrobat energies	3
A Room-Size Model of Lunar Phases	3
Sphero Mini Sensor Board for First-Year Physics Labs	2
ABOUT GRAVITY	2
Explore the expanding universe with Rubin Observatory	2
Using Math in Physics: 6. Reading the physics in a graph	2
Dynamic Applets for Teaching Physics	2
Using a Styrofoam Sphere and Video Analysis to Demonstrate the Linearly Resisted Harmonic Oscillator	2
Converging through the window	2
COVID-19 Questions for Physics Exams	2
The circular Atwood machine	2
The Pneumatic Inkwell and the Barometer	2
Science Friday Lesson Materials	2
Analyzing a Free-Falling Magnet to Measure Gravitational Acceleration Using a Smartphone’s Magnetometer	2
Secondary and University Students’ Descriptions of Quantum Superposition	2
Going “All Quantitative” While Teaching About Light and Stars in Introductory Astronomy	2
Maximum Momentum and Kinetic Energy of a Relativistic Rocket	2
From T to Y: Solutions for Fermi Questions, December 2024	2
Beyond the Classroom: Profiling Muon Flux in Relation to Overburden in Fermilab’s MINOS Tunnel	2
Student-Created Video Content for Assessment and Experiential Learning	2
The Electric Monochord: A Musical Demonstration About Electromagnetic Induction	2
How to Use the Archimedes Paradox for Educational Purposes	2
Measuring the speed of light in liquids with a smartphone	2
Performing acoustics experiments using inexpensive Bluetooth speakers and smartphone signal generator applications	2
Exploring to Explain the Marshmallow Phenomenon	2
Exploring Illumination and the Inverse-Square Law with Arduino	2
Measuring the Speed of Earth Around the Sun Using a Classroom-Built Radio Horn Telescope	2
Answer to September 2024 Figuring Physics Question	2
Birefringence without polarizers	2
Reimagining physics/education	2
A Physics Story: Literacy technique for learning the language of physics	2
By TYC physics/astronomy faculty for TYC physics/astronomy faculty: The Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges (OPTYCs)	2
How Can a Quantum Particle be Found in a Classically Forbidden Region?	2
A Tool for Exploring Our Fluid Earth	2
Thermal Tide Detection: A Case Study to Introduce Open Data Analysis in High School	2
Repurposing Concept Inventories to Help Students Find Gaps in Explanations	2
Small Direct Current Electric Motors	2
Use of a Scrapped Hard Disk Drive for Physics Teaching	2
Answer to April 2023 Figuring Physics Question	2
Modeling the expansion of the universe	2
What Physics Instructors Might Do to Support Immunosuppressed Students in the Return to In-Person Instruction: Thoughts from one chronically ill and immunosuppressed physicist	2
Poggendorff’s Scales—Demonstration of Newton’s Laws in a Less Traditional Way	2
Bicycle-Powered Centrifuge: A Multidisciplinary Physics Lab Project to Engage Kinesiology Students	2
Homer Dodge Distinguished Service Citations	2
Close encounters of the “light” kind	2
The impact of TYC physics programs on STEM and Non-STEM majors	2
Optics in the land of Serendip	2
Standing Vertical Jumps – Sports Physics with a Smartphone	2
Remembering Michael Collins	2
Developing an Intuition for e: Euler’s Number	2
Using Cosmic Rays to See the Unseeable	2
Answer to February 2022 Figuring Physics Question	2
A Modified Recipe for Interactive Classroom Demonstrations	2
The weighty words of Lord Rayleigh	2
Talking Is Thinking: Supporting Student Sense-Making Through Discourse and Assessment	2
Fluids Demonstrations III: Viscous Flow in Modified Thin Enclosures, Centrifugal Effect, Vortical Flow, and Turbulence	2
Acceleration of a Ball Up an Incline	2
Exploring Brownian Motion with a Millikan Oil Drop Apparatus	2
Determining viscosity of a liquid with smartphone sensors: A classroom-friendly approach using damped oscillations	2
Climate Change, Decarbonizing, and Nuclear Energy as a Possible Bridging Technology	2
Gravitational Acceleration—A Smartphone Approach with the Magnetic Ruler	2
How Golden Age’s Comics Heroes Can Make Your Physics Lessons Great Again	2
Variable Focal Length Lenses Made of Gelatin	2
Engaging Students from Introductory Physics Courses in Socio-scientific Debates	2
New physics bachelors and graduate study	2
A small historical equipment display	2
Does DEI reduce harm? Lessons from a study on militarism in US STEM education	2
“Dipping” into the aurora	2
Exponential Decay Experiments	2
Biot–Savart law with a smartphone: Phyphox app	2
Adopting a paradigm shift framework to promote quantum literacy	2

Quark/Gluon Plasma: When Protons Melt	2
Spectral Analysis of Musical Notes as a Source of Information About Musical Instruments	2
Using Arduinos as Portable Measurement Devices	2
Sensor Cart Collisions and the Conservation Laws	2
Figuring Physics January Answer	2
Electrifying the Circuits Unit: The Construction of Electric Board Games in Introductory Physics	2
A Quantitative Experiment of Liquid Dispersion Using Merely a Partially Submerged Mirror and Sunlight	2
Analysis of Brownian Motion by Elementary School Students	2
Robotic telescope labs for survey-level undergraduates	2
James Webb Space Telescope in the news	2
MOON-SUN SIZES IN THE SKY	2
Challenging ChatGPT with Different Types of Physics Education Questions	2
Question 1: Falling on a BMW; Question 2: Recycling contact lenses	2
A Useful Experiment for Teaching Resistance of a Wire as a Function of Temperature	2
Demonstrating Mechanical Beats on Phosphorescent Foil in Real Time	1
Listen! A Smartphone Inquiry on the Domino Effect	1
When Negative Is Not “Less than Zero”: Electric Charge as a Signed Quantity	1
Using Renewable Energy to Teach Conservation of Energy in Introductory Physics	1
Open or One-End-Closed Tubes for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Boomwhackers	1
Lab activities on temperature and thermodynamics	1
I’m still standing	1
Understanding a Paradox in Special Relativity	1
Use of a Simple Homemade Apparatus to Teach Basic Thermal Concepts – Six Qualitative Demonstrations/Experiments	1
Big Clive on “How to use your trashy meter without blowing it up (much)”	1
Figuring Physics December Answer	1
Initial outcomes of exiting physics master’s degree recipients	1
Don’t Throw Away Your Old Overhead Projectors: Upcycle to Easy Physics Demos Instead	1
Trial by wire	1
Measuring the Magnetic Field Vector of Earth	1
Inexpensive Physical Pendulum with Arduino	1
Erratum: “Geometric Optical Experiments Using Water Mixed with Highlighter Ink,” Phys. Teach. 60, 765–767 (2022)	1
Dental Floss, Calculus, and Jail: Solutions for Fermi Questions, October 2023	1
Diffraction Experiments with a Smart Cart	1
Robust Triboelectric Charging of Identical Balloons of Different Radii	1
The Thomson Jumping Ring Experiment and Ideal Transformer	1
Labs and demos with a one-farad capacitor	1
Physics offerings in U.S. high schools	1
Prepare for the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses! School and Community Events and Fundraising	1
X-rays in the classroom	1
Demonstrating Conical Pendulum Stable and Unstable States	1
LED gates for measuring kinematic parameters using the ambient light sensor of a smartphone	1
ACCELERATING BOULDER	1
An Instructive Apparatus for Determining the Density of Liquids Based on Archimedes’ Principle	1
April 2021 Figuring Physics Answer	1
“The Stars Within Us: How the elements inside you, and everything were forged” “T01-178 Orbits” and Triple Binaries	1
Computational Modeling in High School Physics First: Postcards from the Edge	1
Perimeter Institute Outreach Newsletter	1
Wave Reflections in a Circular Ripple Tank	1
Measurement of g using a pendulum and a smartphone proximity sensor	1
Solutions for Fermi Questions, April 2021	1
From Applied Physics to Interdisciplinary Activities for a Climate Science Itinerary in the First Year of College	1
When the Quarter Jumps into a Cup (and When It Does Not)	1
What Physics Students Can Learn from the Wright Brothers	1
The First Step to Address the Teaching of Entropy	1
More on Synchronization, Resonance and Orbital Mechanics (and Pee)	1
An improved equipotential lab for parallel plates	1
Gallery View	1
Energy in Its Material and Social Context: Power Plants	1
An Intuitive Approach to Earth’s Centrifugal Bulge	1
Answer to May 2023 Figuring Physics Question	1
Advocating for access	1
Absence of Hydrostatic Pressure in Free-Falling Mercury	1
Chrome Music Lab	1
Solutions for Fermi Questions, October 2021: Rising water level; Popping many pimples	1
The Day After Tomorrow and Daily Weather Briefings: Inquiry-Based Learning of Global Climate and Extreme Weather	1
“Understanding Car Crashes: It’s Basic Physics” “Understanding Car Crashes: When Physics Meets Biology” (US) Insurance Institute for Highway Safety	1
TORQUES ON A METERSTICK	1
Collision of a Happy Ball with an Unhappy Ball	1
Sap Is Clever? Sap Ascent for Undergraduates Investigated with an Artificial Tree	1
What Physics Instructors Can Learn from Astronomy Teaching	1
A Foucault Pendulum Pilgrimage in Paris	1
Correction: “Which Had the Highest Metabolism While in the Egg: Dinosaurs, Crocodiles, or Birds?” by Scott Lee et al. (November TPT)	1
Graphic Relation Between Amplitude and Sound Intensity Level	1
Question 1: Rising water level; Question 2: Popping many pimples	1
Investigation of the flux density of a solenoid using the magnetometer of smartphones	1
Greetings!	1
Making the Quantum Scattering of Fundamental Particles Accessible	1
Maintaining Essential Course Features When Moving Introductory Physics Labs Online	1
A little “light” play	1
Sign and Sense of an Induced Electric Current by a Nearby Moving Magnet	1
New column on justice issues in physics and physics education	1
Dynamics Experiments on the Touch Panel of a Tablet Computer	1
Shepard scale produced and analyzed with mobile devices	1
Physics Figures	1
The spherical lens redux	1
Perseverance: The New Rover on Mars	1
Reflecting on a difficult year	1
Why do students choose to pursue a physics major?	1
Summer Professional Development Opportunities	1
Perimeter Institute Classroom Materials	1
Analog environments	1
Magnetic Levitation for the Classroom and Laboratory	1
Tackle this!	1
Using GPT-4 as a guide during inquiry-based learning	1
TiltTray: A 3D-Printed Apparatus to Teach Inclined-Plane Physics Through Smartphone Portrait-Landscape Transitions	1