Teaching the Science Behind the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Videos of plenaries and articles previously published in the
American Journal of Physics
and in The Physics Teacher
Videos
- Kip Thorne, 2012 John David Jackson Award, "Black Hole Research: A New Golden Age"
American Journal of Physics
- 2017 An analysis of the LIGO discovery based on introductory physics (http://doi.org/10.1119/1.4985727)
- 2015 Understanding the gravitational-wave Hellings and Downs curve for pulsar timing arrays in terms of sound and electromagnetic waves (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.4916358)
- 2012 Gravitational wave science in the high school classroom (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.4738365)
- 1967 Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science (http://doi.org/10.1119/1.3607553)
- 2010 The response of laser interferometers to a gravitational wave (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3443566)
- 2007 Hands-on gravitational wave astronomy: Extracting astrophysical information from simulated signals (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2721587)
- 2003 An introduction to signal extraction in interferometric gravitational wave detectors (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1531578)
- 1997 If light waves are stretched by gravitational waves, how can we use light as a ruler to detect gravitational waves? (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.18578)
- 1988 The search for gravitational waves (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.15747)
- 1967 Electric and Magnetic Field Probes (http://doi.org/10.1119/1.1973723)
The Physics Teacher
- 2017 Gravitational Wave Detection in the Introductory Lab (http://doi.org/10.1119/1.4981036)
- 2016 Ripples in Reality (http://doi.org/10.1119/1.4962773)
- 2016 More gravitational wave events observed by LIGO; Astronomy Magazine supplement; resources (http://doi.org/10.1119/1.4961195)
- 2016 Gravitational waves in the news (http://doi.org/10.1119/1.4944377)
- 2006 Gravitational Waves: New Observatories for New Astronomy (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2353578)
- 2006 Science Icebreaker Activities: An Example from Gravitational Wave Astronomy (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2353577)
- 1984 Detection of gravity waves (http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2341545)
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