The Blog of Phyz

One of my personal mentors was a very down-to-earth Physics celebrity, Dr. Paul Doherty of the Exploratorium. I met Paul within a month of m...

EBIT Cutaway One of the highlights of the workshop program I conduct at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a tour of the Electro...

I know. I didn't think I needed to know, either. But I was wrong. We've all used them, and we likely have a rough idea of what...

This post is really just a link share. I don't know about you, but I often get so wrapped up in teaching physics that I lose track of wh...

Depending on your social media foot print you may have seen a lot of this image over the last few days: If you didn't achieve "...

I will be teaching AP Physics C, Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism, for the first time this year. Although I have been graciously gi...

Many science instructors will be making the pilgrimage to totality for the August 21 solar eclipse . This will leave science students withou...

I expressed my misgivings about the AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2 exams in a previous post . Once again, this is a rant. If you're not i...

For instructors making the pilgrimage to totality for the August 21 eclipse, there is a chance school will be in session and lesson plans wi...

It seems we're been here before . More than once . The kilogram: a pesky unit of measure that hasn't been behaving itself. Derek M...