The Physics Teacher
April 2025
Volume 63 Issue 4
This Month's cover...is a mosaic of the astronomically large and microscopically small deep space galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and particle tracks from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). See the article by Don Lincoln for fascinating perspectives on these images—is it “The Worst Prediction in Physics?” Photo credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI for the JWST image and CERN/ATLAS Collaboration for the particle physics display.
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.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Additional citation of import by William G. Delinger. DOI: 10.1119/10.0036320
Bad timing! by Harry Manos. DOI: 10.1119/10.0036321
PAPERS
The Worst Prediction in Physics? by Don Lincoln. DOI: 10.1119/5.0263985
Rolling down a Basketball by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0197017
Values Reflected in Energy-Related Physics Concepts by Editor’s Pick Kara E. Gray; Rachel E. Scherr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0137442
Using a Smartphone Barometer to Measure the Excess Pressure of a Soap Bubble by Gabriel Grant; Ananda Shastri. DOI: 10.1119/5.0191526
An Elementary Setup for X- and Gamma-Ray Detection in Physics Education by Ava ZarifSanayei; Mustafa Farjad-Fard; Mohammad-Reza Mohammadian-Behbahani; Leyli Ebrahimi; Sedigheh Sina. DOI: 10.1119/5.0194078
A 3D-Printed Solar Telescope for Students by Daniel W. Rickey. DOI: 10.1119/5.0189754
The Snowflake Problem: An Introduction to Energy Minimization Problems by Tim LaFave, Jr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0168597
Measuring the Surface Tension Coefficient Using Aluminum Soda Cans and Tracker Software by Xiang Liao; Yuli Dong. DOI: 10.1119/5.0172998
RC and RLC Circuit Research Using Arduino and LabVIEW by Qi Zhang; Geman Ding; Guangqing Huang; Xianqiu Wu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0165154
Automated Measurement of the Speed of Sound by Carlos A. Vinhais; Francisco J. Marinho. DOI: 10.1119/5.0185731
Measuring the Speed of Sound by Schlieren Imaging by Leyao Jiang; Yun Sun; Wei Zhuang; Jiasheng Wu; Jiawei Song. DOI: 10.1119/5.0221116
Circular Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Constant Magnetic Field Revisited by Orion Ciftja; Cleo L. Bentley, Jr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0198137
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain Technique to Address Misconceptions About Image Inversion in Spherical and Cylindrical Mirrors by Hasan Şahin Kızılcık. DOI: 10.1119/5.0176071
Exploring Curvilinear Motion with GeoGebra’s Running Turtle by Chengqi Chen; Guangtian Zhu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0175256
Simulating Physics Experiments in Spreadsheets II—Experimenting with the Half-Deflection Method, Resistance of a Voltmeter, and a Meter Bridge
In Special Collection: Quantum Topics in the Introductory Physics Classroom by Zaheer Uddin; Naeem Sadiq. DOI: 10.1119/5.0158752
Superposition for Non-Science Majors
In Special Collection: Quantum Topics in the Introductory Physics Classroom by Michael Zheng. DOI: 10.1119/5.0225565
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