The Physics Teacher

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  Año 2026, Vol. 64, Número 1

  • EDITORIAL

    • Call for Papers: AI and Ethics in Intro Physics

      Gary White

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 3-3

      

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    • Making high school physics interactive: Integrating AI tools to support active learning

      Nasir Ilyas

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 4-4

      

    • Dollars and sense

      Terrence Toepker

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 4-4

      

    • Comment on “Creating physics concept cartoons using ChatGPT”

      Jianwei Jiang

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 4-5

      

  • PAPERS

    • The Boiling-Frog Problem of Physics Education

      Gerd Kortemeyer

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 8-12

      

    • Surviving a Syrup Tsunami

      Hollis Williams

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 13-15

      

    • Hawking for Beginners

      Jorge Pinochet Iturriaga

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 16-18

      

    • Untapped Resources: Training Undergraduate Teaching Assistants as Future Physics Educators

      Angela Johnson, Corey Payne

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 19-22

      

    • Using Skateboarding to Develop a Culturally Relevant Tutorial on Static Equilibrium

      Gian Viray, Isaac Cheney, Tong Wan

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 23-26

      

    • Adaptation of a Calculus-Based Introductory Physics Lecture and Lab for a Blind Student

      Abigail M. Bogdan, Kimberley A. Bassi Cook

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 27-30

      

    • A Two-Session Qualitative and Quantitative Lab Experiment on Faraday’s Law for Introductory Physics Students

      Scott M. Gianelli

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 31-33

      

    • Measurement of the Magnetic Energy Stored in an Inductor

      Bogdan M. Leu

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 34-35

      

    • Using 3D Printing to Construct a Precise Spectrometer and Enhance Understanding of How It Works

      Matej Pašák, Gezim Hodolli

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 36-39

      

    • Exploring Light Polarization Using Smartphone Screens and Dielectric Interface Reflectance

      Daniel N. Hammer, Thiago M. Batistel, Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 40-44

      

    • Demonstration of Resonance Using a Reciprocating Motor and Smartphones

      Qiren Chen, Xiumei Feng, Min Xia, Jiabao Zhu

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 45-47

      

    • Study of an Impulsive Blow on an Unpivoted Uniform Metal Rod by Video Analysis

      E.S. Silva, G.A.C. Perez, A. L. de Oliveira, V. L. B. de Jesus

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 48-51

      

    • A Viscosity Lab Designed to Demonstrate the Usefulness of Uncertainty Calculations

      Mike Augspurger

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 52-56

      

    • A Black Balloon Dancing Under a Stream of Water

      Edy Wibowo, Naily Ulya

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 57-59

      

    • Isochronism of the Harmonic Oscillator Revisited

      Joseph A. Rizcallah, Yahya N. Shaar, Nibal S. Khassan

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 60-63

      

    • The Conservation and Transformation of Mechanical Energy to Thermal Energy: An Experiment and Its Use as a Teaching Tool for Physics Students

      Nguyen Anh Thuan, Pham Kim Chung, Nguyen Thi Thu Hang

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 64-68

      

    • A Zero-Cost and Active Method for Estimation of the Speed of Sound Using a Smartphone for Undergraduate Classrooms

      Manoj Kumar Gundawar

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 70-71

      

  • IPHYSICSLABS

    • Investigating damping and collision dynamics in a two-ball Newton’s cradle using a smartphone sound sensor

      Sanjoy Kumar Pal, Pradipta Panchadhyayee, Soumen Sarkar

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 72-73

      

  • ASTRONOTES

    • A planetary habitability flowchart

      Michael C. LoPresto

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 74-75

      

  • AI PHYSICS TOOLS (AI@TPT)

    • Sound analyses with generative AI: Examination of a children’s instrument

      Patrik Vogt, Stefan Küchemann, Peter Sander, Jochen Kuhn

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 76-77

      

  • LITTLE GEMS

    • Pendulum oscillations in free fall

      Jennifer J. Birriel, Ivana M. Krulj, Josip Slisko Ignjatov

      • Resumen
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      págs. 78-79

      

  • TYC TIDBITS

    • Leaving a trail

      Paul J. Heafner

      • Resumen
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      págs. 80-80

      

  • FERMI QUESTIONS

    • Move over, Tatooine Available John Adam ORCID logo

      John Adam

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 81-81

      

    • Move over, Tatooine: Solutions for Fermi Questions, January 2026

      John Adam

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 81-82

      

  • TALKIN’ PHYSICS

    • Working for Veritasium

      James Lincoln

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 82-83

      

  • AND THE SURVEY SAYS…

    • Influences to pursue an undergraduate physics degree

      Susan C. White

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 84-84