The Physics Teacher
March 2025
Volume 63 Issue 3
This Month's cover...is entitled “Tendrils of Plasma” and features an exciting glimpse of a Tesla coil discharging. Nikhil Pollard of Albany High School in Albany, CA (physics teacher: Valerie Risk) submitted this photo to the AAPT High School Photo Contest in 2024; the 2025 contest accepts submissions starting on March 1, and continuing through May 15.
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 Gavrin by Nikolaus Albrecht. DOI: 10.1119/10.0035992
Comment on “ChatGPT and deliberate practice for interpreting graphs” by A. Gavrin. DOI: 10.1119/5.0258463
Reply to Bevelacqua by Steven J. Heilig. DOI: 10.1119/10.0035993
Comment regarding “Minkowski Diagrams Aid Understanding of Special Relativity” In Special Collection: Quantum Topics in the Introductory Physics Classroom by Joseph John Bevelacqua. DOI: 10.1119/5.0246806
AAPT AWARDS
2025 AAPT Awards at the Winter Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. DOI: 10.1119/5.0261960
PAPERS
Extant Time Balls Around the World by Harry Manos. DOI: 10.1119/5.0188063
The Implosion of the Titan Submersible: A Stress–Strain Experiment by Gregory A. DiLisi; Steven J. Eppell; Richard A. Rarick. DOI: 10.1119/5.0178277
An Introduction to Quantum Phenomena: A Conceptual Instructional Sequence In Special Collection: Quantum Topics in the Introductory Physics Classroom by Zac Patterson. DOI: 10.1119/5.0222081
Drama in Quantum Physics Teaching—Following Uncle Albert and Alice into Quantumland In Special Collection: Quantum Topics in the Introductory Physics Classroom by Ann-Marie Mårtensson-Pendrill; Henrik Hallström. DOI: 10.1119/5.0196171
A Survey of Reversible Devices by Christopher J. Chiaverina. DOI: 10.1119/5.0180893
Physics Intuition About Vectors Can Help Us Understand Generative Artificial Intelligence by Tor Ole B. Odden; Audun Skau Hansen. DOI: 10.1119/5.0149555
A Fluid Dynamics Experiment for Introductory Physics by Frank X. Lee. DOI: 10.1119/5.0172262
Carbonfootbricks: Brick Your Carbon Footprint for Sustainable Decisions in Everyday Life by Philipp Spitzer. DOI: 10.1119/5.0221164
A Note on Gravitational Force Between a Non-Spherically Symmetric Mass Distribution and a Point Mass by Pirooz Mohazzabi; Julia Ann Smith Jones. DOI: 10.1119/5.0166834
Compensating Smartphone Accelerometers for More Precise Classroom Experiments by Hoon Yu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0202891
Exoplanet and Binary Star Light Curve Demonstration by Adam C. Lark; Bradley Moser. DOI: 10.1119/5.0150885
Determination of the Charge of an Electron Using Faraday’s Law of Electrolysis by Vladimir Ya. Kezerashvili; Roman Ya. Kezerashvili. DOI: 10.1119/5.0215174
Temperature-Dependent I–V Characterization of a Diode Using an Arduino Shield by Marciano Santamaría; Noriel Correa; José Emilio Moreno; Agustín Orro; Yarien Moreno; Álvaro Maturell. DOI: 10.1119/5.0167787
Direct-Current RL Circuits with Fixed Resistance and Variable Inductance by Bogdan M. Leu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0186027
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