The Blog of Phyz

You know it's a bad situation when the hashtag basically writes itself. This first year of teaching AP Physics C: Mechanics and Electr...

When Honda produced a musical road in Lancaster, California a few years ago, I linked to their commercial and developed a lesson that includ...

Physics teachers hope to inherit or acquire useful lab apparatus. When I arrived at Rio Americano in 1986, the physics program had suffered ...

Just a quick public service reminder. The Flickr album of the valentines is here . Alex McKale's movie of the valentines is here. ...

I worked all last weekend learning how to integrate the Electric Field near an infinite line of charge, finite line of charge, charged ring ...

Induction is one of those things that make students go "Whhaaaatttt???" You have probably seen and demonstrated a moving wooden...

It's my first year teaching AP Physics C (Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism) and I am wrapping up our last Mechanics unit on Sim...

Next time your at the Department of Motor Vehicles renewing your driver's license, don't be surprised if you see people in the lobby...

When I was a new teacher, I was wary of veteran teachers who complained about "kids these days". The gist was that students of a l...

There comes an awkward moment in my AP Physics 2 course when we arrive at the topic of electromagnetism. Students enrolled in Physics last y...