The Physics Teacher
December 2022
Volume 60 Issue 9
This Month’s Cover...won 1st place in the Contrived Category of the 2022 AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest. Titled “The Color of Soap Bubbles,” this photograph was submitted by Kelly Zhang of Richmond Hills High School in New York (teacher: Julie Dean). The brilliant colors are produced through thin-film interference
Columns
And the Survey Says..., Astronotes, Figuring Physics, For the New Teacher, Just Physics, iPhysicsLabs, Little Gems, Physics Challenge for Teachers and Students, Fermi Questions, Talkin' Physics, Technology In The Classroom, Tricks of the Trade, Visual Physics, and Websights.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Human reaction time measurement using a smartphone by Praveen Pathak. DOI: 10.1119/5.0060546
PAPERS
Sunny with a Chance of Servos: Solar-Powered Arduinos by Tim Gfroerer, Michael Adenew and Ella Williams. DOI: 10.1119/5.0065597
Sun Photometry for Introductory Students by Tom Bensky. DOI: 10.1119/5.0062948
Wavelength-Dependent Solar Limb Darkening with Smartphones, Solar Projection, and Salsa by J Jennifer J. Birriel and Jacob M. Wagoner. DOI: 10.1119/5.0061547
Reflection on Slide Rules, Calculators, Log Tables, and Computers by Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0048346
If Your School Is Old Enough by Pierfrancesco Riccardi, Francesco Pellegrino and Vittorio Romano. DOI: 10.1119/5.0063023
Considerations for Inclusive and Equitable Design: The Case of STEP UP Counternarratives in HS Physics by Pooneh Sabouri, Zahra Hazari, Raina Khatri and Bree Barnett Dreyfuss. DOI: 10.1119/5.0056835
The Cross Diagram for Kinematics Problems by Daniel Wilhelm Sinkovits. DOI: 10.1119/5.0025832
Using a Simple Pendulum to Calculate the Distance Between Two Train Stations by Claire Tham, Robin Yeo, Visshal Natarajan, Tianqin Zhang, Jer-Ming Chen, Lakshminarasimhan Krishnaswamy and Da Yang Tan. DOI: 10.1119/5.0043205
Additional Experiments with the e/m Apparatus by Eugene Edward Nalence. DOI: 10.1119/5.0049112
Developing Playful Devices as a Tool to Learn and Teach Physics by Esther D. Gutiérrez M., Gabriel Barreto, Arturo Pazmino, Erick Lamilla Rubio and Eduardo Montero. DOI: 10.1119/5.0056442
Poggendorff’s Scales—Demonstration of Newton’s Laws in a Less Traditional Way by Tomáš Kekule. DOI: 10.1119/5.0057719
Experimental Justification of the Poggendorff Experiment by Ricardo Coelho. DOI: 10.1119/5.0049112
Geometric Optical Experiments Using Water Mixed with Highlighter Ink by Yu Chen, Hee Ra Kim, Yu Jin Ahn and Jung Bog Kim. DOI: 10.1119/5.0083795
A Simple Classroom Double Pendulum by Hollis Williams. DOI: 10.1119/5.0048051
Reparameterization of Two-Dimensional Projectile Motion by Olimpio Pereira de Sá Neto, Herbert José Aquino Sousa and Rafael Ferreira da Silva. DOI: 10.1119/5.0025372
Projectile Motion in Midair Using Simple Analytical Approximations by Peter Chudinov, Vladimir Eltyshev and Yuri Barykin. DOI: 10.1119/5.0053162
Reviewing the Link Between Young and Michelson Under COVID Lockdown by Damián Gulich. DOI: 10.1119/5.0050814
Take-Home Labs at the University of Chicago by Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0048345
Development of Operational Observation Tools for Modeling Spatial Division Patterns by Woo-Jin Oh, Hogul Park and Seoung-Hey Paik. DOI: 10.1119/5.0054026
A Remote Moment of Inertia Lab Using the iOLab Device by Vanessa Preisler, Esayas Shume and Jean Talbot. DOI: 10.1119/5.0047802
Race and Physics Teaching Collection Resource
Race and Physics Teaching Continued May 2020-January 2021
DNA Science Lesson & Digi-Kit
Inspired by an article from The Physics Teacher, this multidisciplinary lesson and digital resource collection is based on How Rosalind Franklin Discovered the Helical Structure of DNA: Experiments in Diffraction (Braun, Tierney, & Schmitzer, 2011). Click the image to access this resource.
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