The Physics Teacher
December 2023
Volume 61 Issue 9
This Month's cover features the resplendent diffraction of sunlight through a hummingbird’s wings. Photographer Christian Spencer captured this beautiful cover image and titled it “Winged Prism.” See another of his eye-popping hummingbird poses (“Wings of Light”) along with some descriptive text by submitter Francisco Jose Torcal-Milla. (Photographs reproduced with the permission of the artist.)
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Columns
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, Visual Physics, and Websights.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The solution to the physics education pipeline is partnership by Marianna Ruggerio. DOI: 10.1119/5.0172082
Improved version of double-layered enclosure demo by Said Shakerin. DOI: Phys. Teach. 61, 725 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0169715
Quiz of four resistors by Ken Yamamoto. DOI: Phys. Teach. 61, 753 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0182398
PAPERS
Adding a New Layer to a Favorite Demonstration: The Falling Magnet in a Conducting Tube by Robert Hobbs. DOI: 10.1119/5.0120637
Perspectives of Scientists Involved in World War II by Alan Scott. DOI: 10.1119/5.0101836
Studying the Foundations of Optics with the Master by Scott W. Bonham. DOI: 10.1119/5.0061932
A Unifying Rule for Maximizing the Range or Minimizing the Launch and Impact Speed of a Projectile Along a Tilted Plane by Jeffrey D. Marx. DOI: 10.1119/5.0101540
Use of a Theremin as an Introductory Physics and Electronics Learning Tool by Silvia Alonso-Pérez. DOI: 10.1119/5.0095524
Small Lab Debates: A Simple Way to Engage Your Students in the Scientific Experimental Approach by Jean-François Parmentier; Nabil Lamrani. DOI: 10.1119/5.0106396
A Physics Capstone Course in Sustainable Energy by Blane Baker; Maggie Sherer. DOI: 10.1119/5.0138132
TPT special collection on “Climate change and sustainability in intro physics.”
Using a Hydrogen Car to Discuss Renewable Energy (in a University Outreach Program) with Middle School Students by Cristal Schult. DOI: 10.1119/5.0143713
TPT special collection on “Climate change and sustainability in intro physics.”
Riffs on the Inclined Plane by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0087604
The Mechanical Paul Trap: Introducing the Concept of Ion Trapping by Sebastian Kilde Löfgren; Ricardo Méndez Fragoso; Jonathan Weidow; Jonas Enger. DOI:/10.1119/5.0106359
Learning Electromagnetism through a Playful County Fair Game Project by Arturo Gregorio Pazmino; Luis Israel Pabón; Esther Desiree Gutiérrez M.; Erick Lamilla Rubio; Eduardo Montero. DOI: 10.1119/5.0097221
Get Behind the Wheel: Esports and Physics Misconceptions by Armand Buzzelli; Gavin Buxton; Marina Fontolan; Alexander Gagnon. DOI: 10.1119/5.0093374
An Off-Center, Elastic Collision: Conservation of Kinetic Energy Without a Perfect Coefficient of Restitution by Theodore Baum; Joshua Grossman. DOI: 10.1119/5.0103373
Open or One-End-Closed Tubes for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Boomwhackers by Müge Aygün; Hasan Şahin Kızılcık. DOI: 10.1119/5.0074469
Archimedes Revisited and Beyond by Terrence Toepker. DOI: 10.1119/5.0107227
Water Bottle Stability by Andrew Davis Cahoon. DOI: 10.1119/5.0043933
Rotational-to-Translational Kinetic Energy Transfer for a Rolling Spool by Leonid Minkin; Anthony Zable. DOI: 10.1119/5.0121812
Teaching Introductory Physics in the Context of Personal and Societal Issues of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Guang Zeng; Liang Zeng. DOI: 10.1119/5.0080832
Physical Computing with Arduino by Barun Raychaudhuri. DOI: 10.1119/5.0108658
Using a Learning Management System to Actively Engage Students in a Biomedically Relevant Introductory Physics Course by Mayuri Gilhooly; Nancy Donaldson; Ralf Widenhorn. DOI: 10.1119/5.0100478
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