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American Association of Physics Teachers

AAPT is a professional membership association of scientists dedicated to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching. AAPT was established in 1930 with the fundamental goal of ensuring the "dissemination of knowledge of physics, particularly by way of teaching."

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David Faux, Thesha Thavaraja et al.
in American Journal of Physics
The generalized semi-classical game of life (gSCGOL) is a cellular automaton in which qubits evolve through repeated applications of birth, death, and survival operators. gSCGOL is used to model ...
Md Shakil Bin Kashem, Morgan Davies et al.
in American Journal of Physics
We present an inexpensive sodium molecular spectroscopy experiment for use in an advanced undergraduate laboratory course in physics or chemistry. The molecules were excited predominantly from the ...
Riley E. Alexander, Maya M. DiFrischia et al.
in American Journal of Physics
Lock-in detection is a widely used experimental technique in which a weak signal is measured by modulating it at a particular frequency. Then, by detecting an experimental output at that frequency, ...
Christian Carimalo
in American Journal of Physics
When central forces follow a power law, Cameron Reed [Am. J. Phys. 90 (5), 394–396 (2022)] showed that the resulting force on a test particle located outside an object with spherical symmetry is the ...

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