The Physics Teacher
November 2026
Volume 64 Issue 8
This Month’s Cover...is a view from deep within Antelope Canyon, one of the Navajo Nation’s and Arizona’s most impressive sights. Joshua Wong of the British International School of Washington took this photograph, which was selected as a Top 100 Award winner in the 2026 AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest (Teacher: Kat Deakin).
Columns
AI Physics Tools, And the Survey Says..., Astronotes, Fermi Questions, Figuring Physics, For the New Teacher, iPhysicsLabs, Just Physics, Little Gems, Physics Challenge for Teachers and Students, Talkin' Physics, Technology In The Classroom, Tricks of the Trade, TCY Tidbits, Visual Physics, and Websights.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Apple for the teacher by Bahman GhamariKivi. DOI: 10.1119/5.0343615
PAPERS
Bench-Testing Five Remote Quantum Computing Providers by Mica Einhorn; Jed Brody. DOI: 10.1119/5.0306251
It’s Not the Tool, It’s the Task: A Framework for Cognitively Activated AI Augmentation in Physics Instruction by Jochen Kuhn; Stefan Küchemann; David J. Rakestraw; Patrik Vogt. DOI: 10.1119/5.0324254
The Escape of The Little Prince by Eduardo Herrera; Sigrid Morett. DOI: 10.1119/5.0249516
Nuclear Beavers by Joshua Wylie; Pablo Giuliani; Kyle Godbey; Sylvester Agbemava. DOI: 10.1119/5.0253360
Why Does a Wobble Board Wobble? by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0280850
Using Video Games to Teach Kepler’s Laws and Orbital Dynamics by Brian DiGiorgio Zanger. DOI: 10.1119/5.0276776
Clarifying the Concept of Reachable Space for Projectile Motion in the Context of a Ballistic Missile Shield by Matthew S. Neel. DOI: 10.1119/5.0274965
Nineteenth-Century Scientific Photography by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0271528
Experimental Task: Determination of Liquid Density by Measuring Hydrostatic Pressure by Vladimir M. Markovic; Marko Milosevic; Mico Mitrovic; Maja Stojanovic; Biljana Maksimovic; Nora Trklja Boca; Klára Velmovská. DOI: 10.1119/5.0268225
Observational Astrophysics Research Through Cross-Institutional Research Partnerships by Kristen C. Dage; Linda Strubbe; Rhianna Taub; Amna Khalyleh; Malu Sudha; Teresa Panurach; Muhammad Ridha Aldhalemi; Zainab Bustani; Dominic DeYonker; Mariam Ismail Fawaz; Hans J. Harff; Timothy McBride; Jesse Mason; Anthony Preston; Cortney Rinehart; Ethan Vinson; Vanessa Wilson; Edward M. Cackett; William I. Clarkson. DOI: 10.1119/5.0270704
Cosmic Pathways Conference: Exposure to Career Paths, Networking, and Physics Community for Early-Stage STEM Students by Matthew J. Wright; Alyssa Zambuto; Luis Rodriguez; Kylie Goldade; Jason Bier; Merideth A. Frey; Katherine Gifford; Angela M. Kelly; James St. John; Brad R. Conrad; Alejandro De La Puente; Kelly A. Douglass; Lisa Wade; Carissa Giuliano; James A. Hedberg; Zoya Shafique; Robert Krakehl; Patricia Mueller; Zahin H. Ritee. DOI: 10.1119/5.0279057
Teaching Colors of Pigments Using a Pattern-Based STEAM Activity by Kemal Yurumezoglu; Ekin Boztas; Burak Karabey. DOI: 10.1119/5.0212994
A Model of Sound Transmission in the Ear from the Eardrum to Auditory Cells by Juyoung Kwon; Nahyeon Kim; Jung Bog Kim. DOI: 10.1119/5.0236976
Calibration-Free Focal Length Measurement with Vanishing Points: A Smartphone Physics Lab by Chen Chai; Gaozhou Mei; Zhongke Li; Yuanfangzhou Wang; Weiping Yang; Yunbing Xu; Zhexuan Rao; Yingfan Lin; Chaoyun Zhang; Jiang Luo; Lingfei Kong; Xingchun Li; Leiming Du. DOI: 10.1119/5.0215652
Effect of the Flipped Classroom Approach on a Low-Initial-Knowledge Group in a Preparatory University Physics Course by Gonzalo Naranjo Veintimilla; Bolívar Flores Nicolalde; Arturo Pazmino. DOI: 10.1119/5.0278631
Virtual Learning via Excel Spreadsheets to Simulate the Physics Experiment Measuring Mutual Induction by Lu Jiao; Heriniaina Brayan Candy Randrianasolo; Shuai Liu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0246696
Determining Young’s Modulus Using a Gear-Driven Apparatus and Instrument-Correcting Methodology by Xinyu Wang; Yuhe Zhao; Jiaxuan Wang; Qiyu Chen; Jiawei Song; Wei Zhuang (魏庄); Jiasheng Wu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0260511
Parallel Plate Capacitor: Augmented Reality Application by Andrej Vidak; Iva Movre Šapić; Vesna Ocelić Bulatović; Vanes Mešić. DOI: 10.1119/5.0279018
A Simple Device to Simulate the Working Principle of an Inverter by Li Tang; Wei Fang; Guoliang Ma. DOI: 10.1119/5.0281556
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