The Physics Teacher

March 2026
Volume 64 Issue 3

This Month's cover...is a photograph entitled “Like Oil and Water,” submitted to the 2025 AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest by John Skelton from Woodinville High School in Woodinville, WA

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.

PAPERS

Falling Paper Sheets to Investigate Aerodynamic Drag by Andrea Bussani; Valentina Bologna; Massimo Borelli. DOI: 10.1119/5.0231936

Nanoscale Causes to Macroscopic Effects—Silicon Wafers and Carbon Nanotubes  by Tom Ekkens. DOI: 10.1119/5.0233584

Launch and Landing Angles of Projectiles That Reach the Same Point by Marlon J. Recarte. DOI: 10.1119/5.0230696

A Baffling Brain Behavior: Lessons on Inertia by Dylan Fedell. DOI: 10.1119/5.0203981

An Intuitive Approach to Centripetal Acceleration by Steven J. Heilig. DOI: 10.1119/5.0227043

Oscillation of a Ball on a Concave Surface by Rod Cross; Patrick Dufour. DOI: 10.1119/5.0238324

Mechanics Beyond the Classroom: In-Depth Analysis of Deltoid Force Dynamics by Hashini Mohottala; Joseph Lothamer; Daniel Martin; Agnieszka Machowski. DOI: 10.1119/5.0228965

Interactive Digital Stories with GenAI-Supported Feedback for Inquiry-Based Physics Learning and Teaching by Perihan Tekeli; Sevim Bezen; Hatice Çıralı Sarıca. DOI: 10.1119/5.0286466

How Do We Assess Computation in Physics? by Hannah C. Sabo; Tor Ole B. Odden; Marcos D. Caballero. DOI: 10.1119/5.0174333

An Enjoyable Way to Learn That Everyone Is Radioactive Using the HEC Classbook “The Radiation Around Us”  by Michael M. Hull; Saiki Kitagawa; Haruki Abe; Hiroshi Yokotani; Haruhiko Funahashi. DOI: 10.1119/5.0175181

Using Journal Articles on Sports to Introduce Scientific Literacy in a Physics Course  by Krista K. McBride. DOI: 10.1119/5.0170607

The Motor Loudspeaker and the Cavendish Torsion Scale Experiment  by Shiqing Qiu; Tongtong Guan; Yuze He; Zhaoyang Peng. DOI: 10.1119/5.0223893

Proposal of a Novel and Simple Method for Low-Resistance Thermometry by Sanjoy Kumar Pal; Pradipta Panchadhyayee; Soumen Sarkar; Anirban Samanta; Subhash Chandra Samanta. DOI: 10.1119/5.0213455

Symmetry Concepts with Single-Move Mechanical Puzzles by Hollis Williams. DOI: 10.1119/5.0171289