Volume 56 Issue 5, May 2018
The Physics Teacher
This month's cover is a close-up of the striking wrinkly pattern that results when aluminum foil is placed between colliding steel spheres. For further details, see the article by James Rohr, Si-Yin Wang, and Vitali Nesterenko, “Ripples” in an Aluminum Pool?.
Letters to the Editor
Air drag in the projectile lab by Philip Blanco. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033863
Keeping our readers in suspense by Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033864
Constructive ideas for destructive interference by Marshall Ellenstein. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033865
Hawley’s response by Scott Hawley. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033866
TPT Refrees
Thank you to our TPT referees, March 16, 2017-March 15, 2018. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033874
Columns
And the Survey Says..., Figuring Physics, iPhysicsLabs, Astronotes, Physics Challenge for Teachers and Students, Fermi Questions, Talkin' Physics, Technology in the Classroom, Visual Physics, and Websights.
Papers
Model PET Scan Activity by Amber Strunk, Jennifer Gazdovich, Oriane Redouté, Juan Manuel Reverte more.... DOI: 10.1119/1.5033868
“Ripples” in an Aluminum Pool? by James Rohr, Si-Yin Wang, and Vitali F. Nesterenko. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033869
“Physics Stories”: How the Early Technologies of High Voltage and High Vacuum Led to “Modern Physics” by Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033870
Baseball Physics: A New Mechanics Lab by Kasey Wagoner, and Daniel Flanagan. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033871
A Bullet-Block Experiment that Explains the Chain Fountain by J. Pantaleone, and R. Smith. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033872
Newtonian Analysis of a Folded Chain Drop by Carl E. Mungan. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033873
Using the Cycloid as an Introduction to Transformations of E and B Fields by Marc Frodyma and My Phuong Le. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033875
The Electromotive Force in Different Reference Frames by Charles L. Adler. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033876
Learning Abstract Physical Concepts from Experience: Design and Use of an RC Circuit by Alfredo Parra, Jorge Ordenes, and Milton de la Fuente. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033878
Promoting Reflective Physics Teaching Through the Use of Collaborative Learning Annotation System by Marina Milner-Bolotin. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033879
Things One Can Learn by Putting a Quadcopter in a Vacuum Chamber by Eric Ayars, Tori Goff, and Kirk Williams. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033880
Reading Maxwell in Conceptual Physics by Scott W. Bonham. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033881
Some Pros and Cons of Laptop Use in Class by R. W. Harris. DOI: 10.1119/1.5033882
Additional Resources
Race and Physics Teaching Collection Resource
DNA Science Lesson & Digi-Kit
Inspired by an article from The Physics Teacher, this multidisciplinary lesson and digital resource collection is based on How Rosalind Franklin Discovered the Helical Structure of DNA: Experiments in Diffraction (Braun, Tierney, & Schmitzer, 2011). Click the image to access this resource.