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

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Torsional pendulum

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This was another one of those things I wrote on my "To Do" list and figured I should complete before it had been on there a year....
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Friday, January 25, 2019

Spring demo set-up

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I joke with my classes that the last class of the day gets the best version of me. At least today it only took one period for me to get thi...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

The Electricity Playlist of Phyz

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Wow. Electricity seems to be very well represented in the world of popular music. My Blog of Phyz colleague, Dan Burns, has apparently be...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Physics Problems Get Tested by Drones

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A drone is hovering in an elevator. The elevator goes down. What would happen to the drone? Alternatively, the elevator goes up. What happen...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

That's not a pendulum... THIS is a pendulum

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As another physics teacher responded after seeing this pendulum: Just when I think I have great pendulum set ups in my classroom for eith...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Want to be ferocious in college? Take physics in high school!

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I have been running poster-based ad campaigns to promote physics enrollment since the 1990s. (I tried personalized, direct mail prior to tha...
Saturday, January 05, 2019

Rotation Props

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"Mrs. B, did you make  all this?" In my AP Physics C class we finished our rotation and angular quantities unit before the break...
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Saturday, December 22, 2018

Challenge Accepted: 2019 Top Safety Picks

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On Wednesday,  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released its 2019 list of Top Safety Picks and Top Safety Picks+, it's...

Porch Pirates vs. STEM Stars

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In the event you've severed all your social media ties, you might have missed this week's viral video. So allow me to present Mark R...
Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Epic Rotational Derby

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This year in my AP Physics C class I did a Rotational Derby Lab, students have no prior knowledge of rotational inertia formulas and observe...
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