The Blog of Phyz

Kevin Ferguson graduated from Rio Americano in 2008. He took Physics 1 in 2005-06. He ended the year as a recipient of the highly-coveted Ph...

The Rio Phyz 2012 album is up. Or watch it all from the gizmo below. The hi-res group shots are at the end of the album.

The White House and the National Science Foundation named me as a recipient of the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Scienc...

Due to Apple's everchanging implementation of web-based services, all homepage.mac addresses will expire at the end of the month. I...

The results are trickling in. I'll post my pics to a Flickr album. My eclipse self-portraits and Rio Americano Campus shots at Flickr....

Better yet, have your students do it! An annular eclipse will be passing through Northern California this Sunday. The more populated areas...

The usual caveats apply: I miss more than I see, and this one's been around for a spell. Good, clean, unstable equilibrium, amplificat...

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have now been drafted, reviewed by states, and revised. The current draft can be accessed v...

Neil deGrasse Tyson asks a fair question. If you were sentient in the 1960s, you'll want to wipe your tears so they won't drip o...

We had our unit test on mechanical waves and sound today. A student inquired as to whether or not polarization would be covered. I assured...