The Physics Teacher November 2021
Volume 59 Issue 8
This month's cover is another beautiful image by Daniela Rapava, a long expo-sure (~ 0.8 seconds) of a strand of hair moving through the air, backlit by sunlight. Dr. Rapava's work has been featured on TPT covers and in Visual Physics in the past—see TPT issues from Dec. 2020, Nov. 2018, Dec. 2016, Oct. 2016, May 2015, and April 2015.
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.
Papers
How Golden Age’s Comics Heroes Can Make Your Physics Lessons Great Again by Mohamed El Abed. DOI: 10.1119/5.0018646
Virtual Laboratories in Physics Education by Anton Filanovich and Alexander Povzner. DOI: 10.1119/5.0038803
What Does It Mean to “Make Sense” of Physics? by Tor Ole Odden. DOI: 10.1119/5.0024095
Using Math in Physics: 3. Anchor equations by Edward F. Redish. DOI: 10.1119/5.0023066
Lights, Physics, Action: The Science of Theater Lighting Design by Donald A. Smith and Brian Coleman. DOI: 10.1119/5.0019846
The Brachistochrone: An Excellent Problem for All Levels of Physics Students by John A. Milsom. DOI: 10.1119/5.0021274
Entanglement Ball: Using Dodgeball to Introduce Quantum Entanglement by Jasmine Marckwordt, Alexandria Muller, Danielle Harlow, Diana Franklin and Randall H. Landsberg. DOI: 10.1119/5.0019871
An Affordable Self-Built Spectrometer for the Physics and Astronomy Classroom: A Useful Teaching Tool and Demonstration Instrument by Carl Faust and Seth Ashman. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006912
Vessel Drainage Under the Influence of Gravity by Hollis Williams. DOI: 10.1119/5.0020444
Supporting Preschool Teachers to Teach Physics in Mexico by Gabriela Nieto Betance, Mario Humberto Ramírez Díaz and Soraida Cristina Zúñiga Martínez. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006913
Introducing Archie – A Useful Tool for Teaching Archimedes’ Principle by Jarier Wannous and Milan Kovác. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006914
Collisions of Coins by Barbara Rovšek and Sašo Žigon. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006915
Separation of Peas and Carrots in Boiling Water by Zachary H. Levine. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006916
A Forgotten Simple Pendulum Period Equation by Peter F. Hinrichsen. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006917
An Analogy on the Difference Between Boiling and Evaporation: A Strange Prison by Hasan Şahin Kizilcik. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006919
Why Is the Angle of Incidence Equal to the Angle of Reflection? An Activity by Shirish R. Pathare, Bhagyashri G. Latad, Rohan D. Lahane and Saurabhee S. Huli. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006918
Polarized Light Demonstrations with the Overhead Projector by Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006920
200 HTML5 Simulations for Introductory Physics by Andrew G. Duffy. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006921
Where Are the Crosshairs in the Finderscope? Another activity using a cardboard telescope by Jeongwoo Park and Hee Kyung Park. DOI: 10.1119/10.0006922
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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