The Physics Teacher
September 2025
Volume 63 Issue 6
This Month's cover...is a cartoon representation of the recent attacks on science and education (artwork by Jen Geneakos). Thousands of already-in-progress grants have been canceled and thousands of scientists are gone due to recent actions by the current administration (see “Leaning into Justice—Defending Education and Science” by Gary White).
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
A critical analysis of a flawed derivation of radial acceleration by Gulmammad Mammadov. DOI: 10.1119/5.0274555
EDITORIAL
Leaning into Justice—Defending Education and Science . DOI: Phys. Teach. 63, 402–403 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0293704
PAPERS
Conservation of Momentum in Newton’s Cradle by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0200615
The OpenSciEd Texas Power Crisis Unit: A Coherent, Phenomenon-Driven Approach to Learning Complex Ideas in Physics by Zoë Buck Bracey; Joe Kremer; Diego Rojas-Perilla; Whitney Mills; Michael Novak. DOI: 10.1119/5.0168120
A Revisitation of Boyle’s “Void in the Void” Experiment by Federica Chiappetta; Giuseppe Prete; Pierfrancesco Riccardi; Rosa Tucci; Antonio Bruzzese; Claudio Meringolo. DOI: 10.1119/5.0193054
Tutorials in Climate Change by Sarah Wildbichler; Rainer Wackermann; Mieke De Cock; Lana Ivanjek; Magdalena Micoloi; Gesche Pospiech; Thomas Schubatzky. DOI: 10.1119/5.0224098
Commotio Cordis in the Introductory Classroom by Gregory A. DiLisi; Linda M. DiLisi; Mojtaba E. Youssefi; Richard A. Rarick; Carmela M. DiLisi. DOI: 10.1119/5.0208588
Leveraging AI for Rapid Generation of Physics Simulations in Education: Building Your Own Virtual Lab by Yossi Ben-Zion; Roi Einhorn Zarzecki; Joshua Glazer; Noah D. Finkelstein. DOI: 10.1119/5.0252343
A Physics-Based Light Pollution Education Outreach Program: Promise and Problems by J. Kevin Adkins; Jennifer J. Birriel; Wilson J. Gonzalez-Espada; Abigail Fagan. DOI: 10.1119/5.0165845
How Many Fish Are in the Tank? A Demonstration of Refraction and Total Internal Reflection of Light by Seungjin Kim; Jiwon Lee. DOI: 10.1119/5.0220583
Determination of Voltage–Current Curves: Pulse-Width Modulation-Powered Exploration of Ohmic and Nonohmic Elements with Arduino by Paulo Cesar de Souza; Jessica Fabiana Mariano dos Santos; Luiz Antônio de Oliviera Nunes. DOI: 10.1119/5.0203456
Sound Transmission in Water Flow: An Optical Communication Demonstration Apparatus for Introductory Physics Teaching by Taijun Wang; Xiaoting Zhang; Jiaqi Fan; Yujie Jin; Hongjuan Meng. DOI: 10.1119/5.0221597
Looping the Loop Many Times by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0190995
Teaching the Theory of Elasticity Through Para-Archery Applications by Cédric Le Bot; Thomas Biarez; Abigaël Jacob; Sylvain Laforet; Camille Melkebeke; Mathilde Pouey; Louis Sibille; Guillaume Toucoullet. DOI: 10.1119/5.0169650
Climate, Estimation, and Action in Physics by Valerie Risk. DOI: 10.1119/5.0200645
Precise Measurement of Liquid Concentration Using the Mach–Zehnder Interferometer by Jiangzhuan Zhu; Qihao Teng; Yiyang Zhao; Tianzhuofu Wu; Bang Hu; Fei Xu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0183283
The Electromagnetic Doppler Shift by William H. Baird; Kelly R. Patton. DOI: 10.1119/5.0222222
Using Intuitive Digital Experiments to Help Students Understand the Relationship Between Flow Velocity and Pressure by Qi Tian; Zhi-Xin Huang; Chun-Xiao Wu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0177063
Development of a Teaching Program for Emergent Process Models by Young-Ha Hwang; Seoung-Hey Paik. DOI: 10.1119/5.0169212
Development of Cost-Effective Diffraction Apparatus Using 3D-Printed Components, Arduino, and a LabVIEW Interface by Rajyalakshmi Chebrolu; Srikanth Reddy Tulsani; Uday Kumar Voma. DOI: 10.1119/5.0218826
Seeing vs. Measuring by Richard Kaufman; André Heck. DOI: 10.1119/5.0207574
Suggestion for Correction of Errors in the Representation of Solar Light To Explain an Eclipse in More Detail by Yu Jin Ahn; Ha Neul Kim; Jung Bog Kim. DOI: 10.1119/5.0216577
Visualizing the Beat Phenomenon Between Two Amplitude-Modulated Light Beams on a Solar Cell Using Smartphones by Santiago Ortuño-Molina; Francisco M. Muñoz-Pérez; Juan C. Castro-Palacio; Juan A. Monsoriu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0207153
Authoring Physics Courseware by Client-Side Web Technologies by Valter Kiisk. DOI: 10.1119/5.0176445
Learning by Coding as an Educational Method of Approaching Projectile Motion by Dimitrios Gousopoulos. DOI: 10.1119/5.0198222
Development and Evaluation of Decision-Based Laboratories for Non-Science Majors by Michael Robbins; Eric W. Burkholder. DOI: 10.1119/5.0179162
A Butterfly Painting and Timbre by Müge Aygün; Hasan Şahin Kızılcık. DOI: 10.1119/5.0176217
The Application of Linear Momentum Conservation in Noncollision Phenomena by Yusmantoro Yusmantoro. DOI: 10.1119/5.0163294
A Simple Demonstration of Perpendicular Oscillations in Class Experiments with Lissajous Figures by Duan-bin Luo. DOI: 10.1119/5.0199044
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