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High school physics education issues as seen by some American teachers: From content standards to critical thinking

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Van de Graaff Ping Pong

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As played with a bundle of silk thread, as you do. This gem comes to The Blog of Phyz from Inderkum's Jessica Downing, an upbeat, res...

Quantum locking

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I guess I missed this one the first time around. Better late than never. I've seen magnetic levitation, but it didn't look like this...

Acoustic extinguisher

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Low frequency sound douses a flame. I haven't seen a good explanation. In NGSSpeak, I'd say what we have here is engineering without...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Electrophorus Engineering

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One of the scariest parts of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are the Science & Engineering Practices. An easy way to slowly...
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Plastimake

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This one's for you, imagineers! What is Plastimake? This is the kind of modeling I can get excited about!

The real world keeps taking away my real world physics

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Once upon a time (a few years ago), a reasonable high school physics question was, "Why do the first broadcasters in a given television...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Doing the AP Physics course audit wrong, part 1

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If you're an AP Physics 1 or AP Physics 2 instructor, you've already been through The College Board's 2014-15 course audit. Th...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Airgadzooka!

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Some readers may be familiar with curious and engaging air vortex launchers such as the Airzooka or Zero Blaster . But when a physics de...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Conservation of momentum: not always your friend

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Make of this what you will, gentle readers. But don't doubt the physics! We've got combustion, fluid flow, conservation of momentum ...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

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