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Volume 48, Issue 3

March 2010

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ISSN 0031-921X

EISSN 1943-4928

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
MEET YOUR NEW PRESIDENT
GUEST EDITORIAL
FIGURING PHYSICS
PAPERS
APPARATUS FOR TEACHING PHYSICS
FERMI QUESTIONS
TRICK OF THE TRADE
YOUTUBE PHYSICS
PHYSICS CHALLENGES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
FOR THE NEW TEACHER
LITTLE GEMS
WEBSIGHTS
BOOK REVIEWS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Spherical Raindrops

Lester Evans

Phys. Teach. 48, 147 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317439

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MEET YOUR NEW PRESIDENT

Meet your new President, David Cook

John R. Brandenberger

Phys. Teach. 48, 148 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317440

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GUEST EDITORIAL

AAPT meetings, then and now

David M. Cook

Phys. Teach. 48, 149 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317441

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FIGURING PHYSICS

DC CIRCUIT

Paul Hewitt

Phys. Teach. 48, 150 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317442

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PAPERS

Happy Balls, Unhappy Balls, and Newton's Cradle

David Kagan

Phys. Teach. 48, 152 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317443

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Galvanize Your Class! Build a Battery of Students

Robert A. Morse

Phys. Teach. 48, 154–155 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317444

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25 Years of AAPT's PhysicsBowl

Michael C. Faleski

Phys. Teach. 48, 156–157 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317445

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Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

Paul Gluck

Phys. Teach. 48, 158 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317446

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The Answer to Rising Gas Prices…Nitrogen?

Frank Lee; Herman Batelaan

Phys. Teach. 48, 160–161 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317447

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The Flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS‐119)

Arthur Stinner; Don Metz

Phys. Teach. 48, 162–168 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317448

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Propelling Extended Objects

Richard Humbert

Phys. Teach. 48, 169–172 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317449

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Explaining Electromagnetic Plane Waves in a Vacuum at the Introductory Level

Clark L. Allred; Devin J. Della‐Rose; Brian M. Flusche; Rex R. Kiziah; David J. Lee

Phys. Teach. 48, 173–175 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317450

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In a Hurry to Work with High‐Speed Video at School?

André Heck; Peter Uylings

Phys. Teach. 48, 176–181 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317451

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Short Note on Units: Planetary Units

Elisha Huggins

Phys. Teach. 48, 182 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317452

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A Simple Statistical Thermodynamics Experiment

Michael C. LoPresto

Phys. Teach. 48, 183–185 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317453

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Quantum Dotting the “i” of Inquiry: A Guided Inquiry Approach to Teaching Nanotechnology

Timothy A. Laubach; Lee A. Elizondo; Patrick J. McCann; Shahryar Gilani

Phys. Teach. 48, 186–188 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317454

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Measuring Air Density in the Introductory Lab

G. Calzà; L. M. Gratton; T. López‐Arias; S. Oss

Phys. Teach. 48, 189–190 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317455

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What Is Wrong with Water Barometers?

Dan M. Sullivan; Robert W. Smith; E. J. Kemnitz; Kevin Barton; Robert M. Graham; Raymond A. Guenther; Larry Webber

Phys. Teach. 48, 191–193 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317456

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Photo of the Month

James Mallmann

Phys. Teach. 48, 193 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317457

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Correcting the Normalized Gain for Guessing

John Stewart; Gay Stewart

Phys. Teach. 48, 194–196 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317458

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Daytime Celestial Navigation for the Novice

Philip M. Sadler; Christopher Night

Phys. Teach. 48, 197–199 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317459

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APPARATUS FOR TEACHING PHYSICS

The Iowa wave machines

John D. Daffron; Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr.; Dale Stille

Phys. Teach. 48, 200–201 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317460

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FERMI QUESTIONS

Fermi Questions

Larry Weinstein

Phys. Teach. 48, 201 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317461

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TRICK OF THE TRADE

Using vacuum food sealers as a low‐cost vacuum pump

Jim McClymer

Phys. Teach. 48, 202–203 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317462

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YOUTUBE PHYSICS

Circular thinking

Diane Riendeau

Phys. Teach. 48, 203 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317463

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PHYSICS CHALLENGES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

The Three Stooges

Boris Korsunsky

Phys. Teach. 48, 204 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317464

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FOR THE NEW TEACHER

What your mother never told you about … physics teaching

Deborah Roudebush

Phys. Teach. 48, 205 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317465

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LITTLE GEMS

Demonstrating spectral band absorption with a neodymium light bulb

Adam J. Beehler

Phys. Teach. 48, 206 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317466

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WEBSIGHTS

Physics of projecting and perceiving 3‐D movies: Depth perception, stereoscopic images, and polarized light

Leigh Palmer

Phys. Teach. 48, 207 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317467

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Fire pistons

John Denker

Phys. Teach. 48, 207 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317468

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Astronomy Education Review

Dan MacIsaac

Phys. Teach. 48, 207 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317469

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The International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching (IPHST) group

Dan MacIsaac

Phys. Teach. 48, 207 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317470

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BOOK REVIEWS

A Demo a Day: A Year of Physics Demonstrations: Borislaw Bilash II and David Maiullo

John L. Hubisz

Phys. Teach. 48, 208 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317472

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Sophisticated Sounds: Springer Handbook of Acoustics: Thomas D. Rossing

John L. Hubisz

Phys. Teach. 48, 208 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317473

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MicroRewiew by the Book Rewiew Editor: Evidence for Murder: How Physics Convicted a Killer: Rod Cross

John L. Hubisz

Phys. Teach. 48, 208 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3317474

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