The Physics Teacher
Volume 57 Issue 5, May 2019
This month's cover still captures the imagination after 50 years! Buzz Aldrin is shown standing on the lunar surface with Neil Armstrong and the lunar module Eagle evident in the helmet reflection. Greg DiLisi’s “The Legacies of Apollo 11” provides further reflections on the golden anniversary of this historic event. (Courtesy, NASA)
Letters to the Editor
More on “Making Physics Courses Accessible for Blind Students” by William DeBuvitz. DOI: The Physics Teacher 57, 276 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5098907
Cook’s response by Chelsea Cook. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098908
Diagramming the Sun-Earth-Moon system by Frank Daniel Lock. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098909
Columns
And the Survey Says..., Figuring Physics, iPhysicsLabs, Little Gems, Physics Challenge for Teachers and Students, Fermi Questions, Talkin' Physics, Technology in the Classroom
Papers
Stone Skipping Physics by Charles F. Babbs. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098910
The Legacies of Apollo 11 by Gregory A. DiLisi, Alison Chaney, and Greg Brown. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098911
An Analytical Solution to the Extreme Skydiver Problem by Tony Corvo. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098912
High Voltage and Franklin’s Bells at Low Cost by Harry Cook, and Scott C. Dudley. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098913
Displaying All Object-Image Pairs of an Optical System by James Kelly. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098915
Operationalizing the AAPT Learning Goals for the Lab by N. G. Holmes, and Emily M. Smith. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098916
A More Challenging Mystery Tube for Teaching the Nature of Science by Michael Briggs. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098917
Using Games to Understand Physics Concepts by Matt Olmstead. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098918
Sports, Smartphones, and Simulation as an Engaging Method to Teach Projectile Motion Incorporating Air Resistance by Elizabeth Azhikannickal. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098919
When Do Two Waves Create a Heterodyne Wave? by Wayne Garver. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098920
Another Look at Combination Tones by Candice Harder-Viddal. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098921
Particle Physics: An Essential and Engaging Part of the High School Physics Program by Carol Polen. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098922
Special Relativity at Low Relative Velocities by Bruce J. Ackerson. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098923
Teaching Quantum Mechanics to Over 28,000 Nonscientists by J. K. Freericks, D. Cutler, A. Kruse, and L. B. Vieira. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098924
What a Metal Pipe Can Teach You About Magnetism by Maarij Syed, and N. Nuessle. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098925
Demonstration of a by Faraday Cage Using a Metal Leaf Electroscope by Joon Hee Hong, and Jung Bog Kim. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098926
Introducing Scholarly Research to High School Physics Students by Kendal M. Leftwich, Juliette W. Ioup, and C. Gregory Seab. DOI: 10.1119/1.5098927
Additional Resources
Race and Physics Teaching Collection Resource
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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