The Physics Teacher
May 2025
Volume 63 Issue 5
This Month's cover...features three lasers pointing downward onto a glass plate atop a white sheet of paper, forming a pattern reminiscent of water waves when a stone is tossed into a pond. See “Ripples of internal reflection” by Jiasheng Wu, Sihui Wang, and Wei Zhuang, for more information, along with other arresting images from the Visual Physics collection.
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
Comments on “Studying the Physics of the Sling by Automating the Shooting” by Peter F. Hinrichsen. DOI: 10.1119/5.0263993
A projectile’s distance from its launch point by Hasan Yıldırım. DOI: 10.1119/5.0267679
Nothing but net by Terrence Toepker. DOI: 10.1119/5.0270901
Erratum: “A simple and innovative method for measurement of atmospheric pressure,” Phys. Teach. 63, 290–291 (2025). DOI: 10.1119/5.0275308
PAPERS
Using Banana-to-Banana Plug Test Leads to Extend the Usefulness of CASTLE Kits by Bogdan M. Leu; Dean A. Stocker. DOI: 10.1119/5.0183560
Motion of Spinning Rings and Washers on a Vertical Rod by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0181520
Inverted Pendulum in a Uniformly Accelerated Reference Frame by Nathaniel R. Greene; Luke A. Smith. DOI: 10.1119/5.0203334
Insights on Supporting Students in First-Year Physics Labs by Aaron M. Kraft; James Day; Joss Ives; D. A. Bonn. DOI: 10.1119/5.0180851
Promoting Student Conceptual and Procedural Sensemaking in Introductory Physics Labs by Lauren Barth-Cohen; Jordan M. Gerton; Kevin Davenport; Kelby T. Hahn; Jason May. DOI: 10.1119/5.0159520
Throwing the Kitchen Sink into Electromagnetism Class by Chitnarong Sirisathitkul. DOI: 10.1119/5.0205553
A Metronome Drives a Pendulum in Resonance by Yi Jinn Lillian Chen; Shuo-Hong Wang; Jiann-Shing Lih; Tzu-Chun Chen; Jeng-Fung Hung; Jing-Yuan Ko. DOI: 10.1119/5.0180264
Laboratory Practicals Using Video Recordings of Physics Experiments by Zuzana Gibová; Ján Kecer; Mária Koval’aková. DOI: 10.1119/5.0163086
Interactive Simulations of Upper Limbs by Dan Liu; Matthew Tyler Burk; Jeewoo Kim. DOI: 10.1119/5.0188505
Incorporating Demonstration Equipment into Lightboard Technology-Based Lecturettes by Michael J. Gladys; Paul C. Dastoor. DOI: 10.1119/5.0191286
Using Money Exchange to Introduce the Concept of Temperature by Gerardo Giordano. DOI: 10.1119/5.0202740
Oscillatory Motion of an Eccentric Disk by Rod Cross; Kenneth Brecher. DOI: 10.1119/5.0177645
Taylor Series Kinematics by Craig W. Looney. DOI: 10.1119/5.0173909
Duration of Totality of a Lunar Eclipse by Mikolaj (“Mik”) Sawicki. DOI: 10.1119/5.0128296
Understanding Elementary Fluid Dynamics with a Hydraulic Pipe, a Vacuum Cleaner, and a Smartphone-Based Manometer by Athanasios Gkourmpis. DOI: 10.1119/5.0134725
Using a Telescopic Ball and a Smartphone to Investigate the Conservation of Angular Momentum by Yang Zhiqiang; Qi Wei; Xiao Yan Zhu; Jin Tao; Xing Feng Zhu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0202045
A Detailed Analysis of Systematic Errors in the Atwood Machine Experiment: The Effect of the Pulley’s Friction on the Uncertainty of the Measurement Results by Ebrahim Heidari Semiromi. DOI: 10.1119/5.0211528
Exploring Lenz’s Law by Using Homemade Apparatus with Smartphones and Sensors by Aqi Pan; Yi Fang; Kaiyang Zhang; Shouping Tang; Jin Tao. DOI: 10.1119/5.0173951
Exploring the Sun’s Journey Through Solargraphy by Václav Šebelík. DOI: 10.1119/5.0180852
Virtual Experiments on Spreadsheets: A New Way for Science Education by Shafiq Ur Rehman. DOI: 10.1119/5.0170839
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