The Physics Teacher

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  Año 2013, Vol. 51, Número 3

  • Figuring Physics

    • The 3 Rs

      Paul Hewitt

      pág. 132

      

  • Papers

    • Dark matter

      Don Lincoln

      • Resumen

      pág. 134

      

    • Moments of inertia of disks and spheres without integration

      Seok-Cheol Hong, Seok-In Hong

      • Resumen

      pág. 139

      

    • Bringing the digital camera to the Physics lab

      M. Rossi, L.M. Gratton, S. Oss

      • Resumen

      pág. 141

      

    • Spherical tippe tops

      Rod Cross

      • Resumen

      pág. 144

      

    • Wiimote experiments: circular motion

      Minjoon Kouh, Danielle Holz, Alae Kawam, Mary Lamont

      • Resumen

      pág. 146

      

    • Teaching astronomy using tracker

      Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian, Douglas Brown

      • Resumen

      pág. 149

      

    • Adding albedo and atmospheres

      Michael C. LoPresto

      • Resumen

      pág. 152

      

    • Moving clocks do not always appear to slow down: don't neglect the Doppler effect

      Frank Wang

      • Resumen

      pág. 154

      

    • An arduino-controlled photogate

      Calin Galeriu

      • Resumen

      pág. 156

      

    • Beautiful science: worth a visit

      Frederick M. Bingham

      • Resumen

      pág. 159

      

    • The Orion constellation as an installation: an innovative three-dimensional teaching and learning environment

      Daniel Brown

      • Resumen

      pág. 160

      

    • Mechanical parametric oscillations and waves

      William Dittrich, LEonid Minkin, Alexander S. Shapovalov

      • Resumen

      pág. 163

      

    • Hands-on nuclear Physics

      Jeff Whittaker

      • Resumen

      pág. 166

      

    • Teachers' self-assessed level of preparation

      Susan White

      • Resumen

      pág. 168

      

    • F = qv×B: v is with respect to what?

      Kent W. Scheller, Thomas J. Pickett

      • Resumen

      pág. 169

      

    • Yo-yo pull demonstration

      William Layton

      • Resumen

      pág. 172

      

    • Discrepant results in a 2-D marble collision

      Peter Kalajian

      • Resumen

      pág. 173

      

    • Ten things you should do with a tuning fork

      James Lincoln

      • Resumen

      pág. 176

      

  • IPhysicslabs

    • Analyzing radial acceleration with a smartphone acceleration sensor

      Patrik Vogt, Jochen Kuhn

      • Resumen

      pág. 182

      

  • Physics challenge for teachers and students

    • Washing the plates

      Boris Korsunsky

      pág. 184

      

  • YouTube Physics

    • Electricity and magnetism

      Diane Riendeau

      • Resumen

      pág. 185

      

  • Little gems

    • Cascading failure in holiday lights

      Aaron Schuetz

      pág. 186

      

  • Fermi questions

    • Fermi questions

      Larry Weinstein

      pág. 187

      

  • For the new teacher

    • Over 50 years of teaching physics: some advice for young teachers

      John Hubisz

      • Resumen

      pág. 188

      

  • Websights

    • Climate modeling reports, websites, videos from the National Academy of Sciences: www.americasclimatechoices.org, nas-sites.org/climatemodeling/

      Ken Huff

      pág. 190

      

    • Nationwide modeling workshops summer 2013: modelinginstruction.org/teachers/workshops-2013/

      Wendy Heheman

      pág. 190

      

    • Tutorials in Physics science making by Andy Elby, University of Maryland: tinyurl.com/WSEIbyMakeSense

      Jane Jackson, Kathy Harper

      pág. 190

      

    • Perimeter Institute for theoretical Physics director and theoretical physicist Neil Turok's 2012 CBC masseylecture videos: "The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos", itunes.apple.com/ca/album/cbc-massey-lectures-2012-by/id577245484

      Dan MacIsaac

      pág. 190

      

  • Book reviews

    • "The Einstein Theory of Relativity:a trip to the fourth dimension": Lillian R. Lieber, "The Einstein theory of relativity": Lillian R. Lieber

      Joe Heafner

      pág. 191