The Blog of Phyz

The first experimenters who tried to measure the speed of light concluded that light speed was infinite. Their equipment was unequal to the ...

Here's a generous helping of new high-speed video from my trusty Casio EX-F1. We're into thermal physics right now, so it was time t...

Oh the humanity! The week off has given me the chance to listen to daytime NPR. The woo seems to permeate the programming. Here's one fr...

Listening to daytime NPR on my week off, and the woo jumps out of the radio. Take this tale of woe from Talk of the Nation . Scam artist fro...

Thanks to Rick Pam at Stanford for pointing this out to me. Über-groovy! D-oh! The embedding code failed, so you'll have to click the li...

Ah, the predictions shows. Who doesn't enjoy knowing ahead of time what is to transpire in the following year. Slight downside to the yu...

The Fall Meeting of the Northern California and Nevada Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers was held at Foothills College...

The nice thing about physics is that it's all around us. We live it. Sometimes it leads to consequences we hadn't anticipated. Submi...

Here are some afterthoughts and links related to the first PTSOS New Teacher Workshop in Sacramento, held at Rio Americano High School Satur...

I'm finishing my unit on uniform circular motion and gravity. We'll test on that this week and move on to momentum. In the rearview?...