The Physics Teacher
February 2025
Volume 63 Issue 2
This Month's cover...portrays a dramatic scene wherein a predatory Dilophosaurus is pursuing a Coelophysis, running as fast as possible to escape. Both of these dinosaurs lived in the Kayenta Formation in the western US (roughly, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada). See the article by Scott Lee, “The Metabolism of Dinosaurs Running at Their Maximum Speed,” for more information about sprinting dinosaurs (artwork by Jakub Zalewski).
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
Reply to Ford by Eugene Hecht. DOI: 10.1119/10.0035529
Weight, weight, don’t tell me by Kenneth W. Ford. DOI: 10.1119/5.0241452
PAPERS
Hands-On Quantum: Teaching Core Quantum Concepts with Bloch Cubes
In Special Collection: Quantum Topics in the Introductory Physics Classroom
by Jeremy Levy; Chandralekha Singh. DOI: 10.1119/5.0221594
Leveraging Equity and Inclusion to Demystify and Diversify Undergraduate Quantum Science Education
In Special Collection: Quantum Topics in the Introductory Physics Classroom
by Mhlambululi Mafu; Farai Mazhandu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0231016
Jack Reacher and the Deployment of an Airbag Scilight by Gregory A. DiLisi; Richard A. Rarick. DOI: 10.1119/5.0199008
Adventures with Close-Up Lenses by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. DOI: 10.1119/5.0171947
The Metabolism of Dinosaurs Running at Their Maximum Speed by Scott A. Lee. DOI: 10.1119/5.0164828
Don’t Throw Away Your Old Overhead Projectors: Upcycle to Easy Physics Demos Instead by Sarah Lynn McGregor; Keith Goodale. DOI: 10.1119/5.0167389
From Applied Physics to Interdisciplinary Activities for a Climate Science Itinerary in the First Year of College by Delphine Coursault; Sabine Castano; Ulysse Delabre. DOI: 10.1119/5.0137155
A Golf Ball Trajectory Experiment by Peter F. Hinrichsen. DOI: 10.1119/5.0173668
The Unexpected Behavior of a Projectile’s Distance from Its Launch Point by John Andrew Milsom. DOI: 10.1119/5.0174698
Pendulum Motion of a Conical Object on an Incline by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0178570
A Hands-on Investigation of Simple Motors by Huaihua Zhang; Jinglu Zhang; William J. Browne. DOI: 10.1119/5.0166117
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