The Blog of Phyz

If you're not following Frank Noschese ( @fnoschese ) on Twitter, why even be a physics teacher with a Twitter account? And if you get...

Where will you use it: inertia, friction, centripetal force? I don't think students will mind if you use it for all of those. Can ...

As I'm starting Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion in my Conceptual Physics class I am bringing out every demo I've got on inert...

The Forces Playlist of Phyz SONG ARTIST YEAR Carry That Weight The Beatles 1969 First Push DeVotcKa 2005 Force of Nature (Bonus Track) ...

Students being distracted by phones at school began registering in the early 2010s. By the late 2010s, the problem was full-blown. Teach...

When I began teaching in 1986, all the doors on my school's sprawling 64-acre campus opened via doorknobs. And those doorknobs locked fr...

If you want a single page with easy-to-find links to every episode of The Mechanical Universe , we have something in common. I made such a...

The long-awaited Motion Playlist of Phyz is now here. Enjoy! This playlist is long. You might want to break it up into two smaller playl...

In the last few years I've tried to reflect more on why  I do certain things and what the students get out of each. Starting my 14th yea...

Many of us have a sense of color-mixing among trichromats. There's this classic image of the primary and secondary colors of light achie...