The Physics Teacher
December 2024
Volume 62 Issue 9
This Month's cover...features billiard balls in a colorful array, meant to draw readers in to see our lead article “Oblique collisions between billiard balls for introductory physics,” by Alan J. DeWeerd (photo credit, David Moss, http://www.davidmossphoto.com).
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
Foote: Forgotten in Weart’s article by Nicolle E. B. Zellner. DOI: 10.1119/5.0177130
Comment on “Free-Body Diagrams and Bogus Work” by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0219378
Reply to Mammadov by Martin Lieberherr. DOI: 10.1119/10.0034526
Let us not stop centrifugal force by Leonid Minkin. DOI: 10.1119/5.0209220
Let’s stick to true forces by Gulmammad Mammadov. DOI: 10.1119/5.0220171
Let’s stop centrifugal/centripetal force, or not? by Carlos H. Wörner. DOI: 10.1119/10.0034527
Correction: “Which Had the Highest Metabolism While in the Egg: Dinosaurs, Crocodiles, or Birds?” by Scott Lee et al. (November TPT). DOI: 10.1119/5.0246462
Correction: “Fermi Questions,” by John Adam (November TPT). DOI: 10.1119/5.0247871
PAPERS
Oblique Collisions Between Billiard Balls for Introductory Physics by Alan J. DeWeerd. DOI: 10.1119/5.0170380
Listen! A Smartphone Inquiry on the Domino Effect by Laurent Dalla Pola; Luis Darmendrail; Edward Galantay; Andreas Mueller. DOI: 10.1119/5.0164622
Piecewise Grading Reform Year 1: Lab Specifications by Joshua P. Veazey. DOI: 10.1119/5.0180071
Friction Forces on a Pulled Spool by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0171859
Three Methods to Estimate the Refractive Index of a CD-ROM with a Smartphone by Wei Zhuang; Leyao Jiang; Jiasheng Wu; Caojin Yuan; Jiaxuan Wang; Jiawei Song. DOI: 10.1119/5.0186463
Nuclear Physics with MightyOhm: Evidence of Radiation Scattering by Calin Galeriu; Geoffrey Esper; Cristina Miron. DOI: 10.1119/5.0164917
Radioactive Decay Chain Board Game by Welica P. S. Freitas; Lisiane B. Calheiro; Alem-Mar B. Goncalves. DOI: 10.1119/5.0169367
Exponential Decay Experiments by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0081927
Electric Field Activity for Continuous Charge Distributions by Andrew Ferstl. DOI: 10.1119/5.0181327
Measuring the Magnetic Field of a Solenoid Using a Reed Relay by Mária Kladivová; Peter Duranka. DOI: /10.1119/5.0189388
Diffusion, Electrophoresis, and Electric Field Visualization by Mickey Kutzner; Chloe Gaban; Sable Canales. DOI: 10.1119/5.0143452
Absence of Hydrostatic Pressure in Free-Falling Mercury by Ivana M. Krulj; Josip Slisko. DOI: 10.1119/5.0164398
Energy Flows at Earth’s Surface by Michele Dragoni. DOI: /10.1119/5.0156422
Tangential and Normal Acceleration Components in Projectile Motion by Felipe Melo Santos; José G. S. Duque; Wagner Ferreira Santos. DOI: 10.1119/5.0155155
From Kinematics to the Formulas for the Radius of Curvature by Vardan Manukyan; Gagik Nikoghosyan. DOI: 10.1119/5.0161870
Newton’s Law of Cooling and the Size of Sifrhippus sandrae, the Earliest Horse, During the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum by Scott Lee. DOI: 10.1119/5.0164827
An Open Inquiry-Based Lesson Sequence for Teaching the Subject of “Motion and Force” by Tekin Güler; Muammer Çalık. DOI: 10.1119/5.0164362
Measuring Speed (In)dependence of Dry Sliding Friction by Lazar Radenković; Goran Radenković. DOI: /10.1119/5.0167540
The Unexpected Stability of the Sun and the Unexpected Instability of White Dwarfs by Friedrich Herrmann. DOI: 10.1119/5.0151587
Enhancing Student Learning of the Physics of the Human Eye in the Context of Computer Vision Syndrome During COVID-19 by Liang Zeng; Guang Zeng. DOI: 10.1119/5.0133725
Oscillations and Waves by Miguel Lagos; Rodrigo Paredes; Milton Elgueta; Mario Molina. DOI: 10.1119/5.0166724
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