The Physics Teacher

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  Año 2014, Vol. 52, Número 6

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    • A different sort of Wheatstone bridge experiment

      Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.

      pág. 326

      

    • Attraction of water using a charged rod

      Paul J. Jr. Dolan

      pág. 326

      

    • Lifting a cup of water with an immersion blender

      Carl E. Mungan

      pág. 327

      

    • Correction: ¿Water Pearls Optics Challenges for Everybody¿

      Luisa Bragalenti, Andrea Stefanini, Gabriele Tassirani

      pág. 327

      

  • EDITORIAL

    • Teaching: Art, craft, science? Yes!

      Gary White

      • Resumen

      pág. 328

      

  • FIGURING PHYSICS

    • Scaling the Eiffel Tower

      Paul Hewitt

      pág. 330

      

  • PAPERS

    • Serious Fun: Using Toys to Demonstrate Fluid Mechanics Principles

      Camilla Saviz, Said Shakerin

      • Resumen

      pág. 332

      

    • The Expanding Universe: Dark Energy

      Don Lincoln, Brian Nord

      • Resumen

      pág. 337

      

    • On the Stability of a Can of Soda

      G.A. Benesh, J.S. Olafsen

      • Resumen

      pág. 344

      

    • Laithwaite's Heavy Spinning Disk Demonstration

      Rod Cross

      • Resumen

      pág. 349

      

    • iRadioactivity � Possibilities and Limitations for Using Smartphones and Tablet PCs as Radioactive Counters

      Jochen Kuhn, Alexander Molz, Sebastian Gröber, Jan Frübis

      • Resumen

      pág. 351

      

    • Three Misconceptions About Radiation ¿ And What We Teachers Can Do to Confront Them

      Susanne Neumann

      • Resumen

      pág. 357

      

    • And the Survey Says¿

      Susan C. White

      • Resumen

      pág. 359

      

    • Apparatus Named After Our Academic Ancestors, III

      Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.

      • Resumen

      pág. 360

      

    • Plumbdads and Quarkles: Discussing Modeling Trends with Students Using Fictional Parameters

      Timothy Grove

      • Resumen

      pág. 364

      

    • Shooting Fish in a Barrel: A Demonstration of the Refraction of Light

      Walter Trikosko

      • Resumen

      pág. 367

      

    • Measuring c with an LC Circuit

      Patrick Doran, William Hawk, P.B. Siegel

      • Resumen

      pág. 368

      

    • Blackbody Radiation from an Incandescent Lamp

      C.I. Ribeiro

      • Resumen

      pág. 371

      

  • FERMI QUESTIONS

    • Fermi Questions

      Larry Weinstein

      pág. 372

      

  • FIGURING PHYSICS

    • Figuring Physics

      Paul Hewitt

      pág. 373

      

  • LITTLE GEMS

    • The Signaling Mirror: A life-saving application of reflection and refraction

      John Carlson

      pág. 374

      

  • iPHYSICSLABS

    • Determining ball velocities with smartphones

      Patrik Vogt, Jochen Kuhn, Denisº Neuschwander

      pág. 376

      

  • VISUAL PHYSICS

    • Being a Physics Teacher

      James Lincoln

      pág. 377

      

  • PHYSICS CHALLENGE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

    • Physics Challenge for Teachers and Students

      Boris Korsunsky

      pág. 378

      

  • FOR THE NEW TEACHER

    • Realism: The antidote to teacher burnout?

      Diane Riendeau

      • Resumen

      pág. 380

      

  • WEBSIGHTS

    • The American Modeling Teachers Association website

      Dan Maclsaac

      pág. 382

      

    • What does sound look like? by Adam Cole of National Public Radio

      Dan Maclsaac

      pág. 382

      

    • A Nobel winning theoretical physicist's collection of websites: How to become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist by Gerard ¿t Hooft

      Dan Maclsaac

      pág. 382

      

    • Lightning videos and pictures; other static electric dangers

      Dan Maclsaac

      pág. 382

      

    • New video from Tim Blais of A Capella Science: Eminemium ¿ Choose yourself

      Dan Maclsaac

      pág. 382