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

Thursday, January 22, 2015

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Captain Disillusion—Russian Ghost Car Debunk

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Captain Disillusion is at it again… Russian Ghost Car DEBUNK CD is always entertaining and informative. The language can veer off into...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Did the sands of AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2 just shift again?

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UPDATE: I've been told that the my interpretation is mistaken (which happens only on days that end in a "y"). The equation she...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Fibonacci zeotrope sculptures

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Sorry for the sudden aggregation binge. I should be working on my genuflection to The College Board (AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2 syllabi),...

Two men in conductive suits climb Tesla Coils—What happened next was truly shocking!

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Can I write a Buzzfeed-(up)worthy click-bait headline, or what? Anyway, what to do if you have skills in electrical engineering, dance, an...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Momentum Mobile: Have you seen this equipment?

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Demonstration or lab equipment for physics classes can vary from homemade of scraps and junk to store bought and polished shiny pieces. I be...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

FLIR's next generation smartphone thermal camera

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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES2015) was recently held, and vendors were pushing their latest and greatest gizmos. This includes FLIR, ...

Arcs over Amarillo: A sky full of halos

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And my first attempt to embed a Facebook post and image URL. We'll see how it all goes. "Yesterday morning, Texan Joshua Thomas t...

New video questions—Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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I've updated the "Cosmos in the Classroom" page to include question sets for episodes 1–12 of the Neil deGrasse Tyson-hoste...

New video lesson—The Physics of Tavurvur Volcano

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A video similar to this one made it into my Facebook feed, and I saw fit to turn it into a YouTube Physics lesson. Mount Tavurvur Volcan...
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