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- Inertial Navigation: A Bridge Between Kinematics and Calculus
- Millikan's Oil-Drop Experiment: A Centennial Setup Revisited in Virtual World
- Charge and Energy Stored in a Capacitor
- Teaching Galileo? Get to Know Riccioli! What a Forgotten Italian Astronomer Can Teach Students About How Science Works
- The Monty Hall Problem as a Class Activity Using Clickers
- How Can “Weightless” Astronauts be Weighed?
- Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider
- Non-Mathematical Explanation of Precession
- Laboratory Activity: Specific Heat by Change in Internal Energy of Silly Putty
- Atwood's Heavy Chain
- Using NASA Science News Articles to Enhance Learning in the Classroom
- Vibration Analysis and the Accelerometer
- Launch of a Vehicle from a Ramp
- The Joy of Teaching and Writing Conceptual Physics
- Projectile Motion Gets the Hose
- High-Speed Video Analysis in a Conceptual Physics Class
- Ring Falling into a Chain: No Magic — Just Physics
- Infrared Imaging for Inquiry-Based Learning
- Rolling the Black Pearl Over: Analyzing the Physics of a Movie Clip
- An Inexpensive Mechanical Model for Projectile Motion
- Equations as Guides to Thinking and Problem Solving
- Teaching Newton's Laws with the iPod Touch in Conceptual Physics
- Helium Speech: An Application of Standing Waves
- Cramster: Friend or Foe?
- Demonstrations with an LCR Circuit
- Collaborative Lab Reports with Google Docs
- How Rosalind Franklin Discovered the Helical Structure of DNA: Experiments in Diffraction
- Siphons, Revisited
- Standing Waves in a Nonuniform Medium
- Unfortunate Outcomes of a “Funny” Physics Problem: Some Eye‐Opening YouTube Comments
- Experiencing Light's Properties Within Your Own Eye
- Using the Wiimote in Introductory Physics Experiments
- Remembering Cliff Swartz
- Experiments with Helium‐Filled Balloons
- Using Environmental Science as a Motivational Tool to Teach Physics to Non‐science Majors
- Innovative Interactive Lecture Demonstrations Using Wireless Force Sensors and Accelerometers for Introductory Physics Courses
- “Apparent Weight”: A Concept that Is Confusing and Unnecessary
- Discrepant Events: A Challenge to Students' Intuition
- An Interactive Science Blog at UCF for High School Science Students
- Investigating Flight with a Toy Helicopter
- Measuring g Using a Magnetic Pendulum and Telephone Pickup
- Another Demo of the Unusual Thermal Properties of Rubber
- Simulation of the Inferior Mirage
- Hydromonochord: Visualizing String Vibration by Water Swirls
- Student Blogging about Physics
- An Introduction to Solar Cells
- Einstein's Tea Leaves and Pressure Systems in the Atmosphere
- Weighing Photons Using Bathroom Scales: A Thought Experiment
- Women and Men of the Manhattan Project
- Bola Motion
- Teaching the Fundamentals of Cell Phones and Wireless Communications
- The Answer to Rising Gas Prices…Nitrogen?
- Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- Galvanize Your Class! Build a Battery of Students
- Invariability of Mass
- Learning Nuclear Science with Marbles
- Obtaining and Investigating Unconventional Sources of Radioactivity
- Virtual Mirrors
- Eyeglasses in the Classroom
- “The errors were the results of errors”: Promoting Good Writing by Bad Example
- Shaping Attitudes Toward Science in an Introductory Astronomy Course
- Note on Magnetism and Simultaneity
- Quiz Corrections: Improving Learning by Encouraging Students to Reflect on Their Mistakes
- Using Ethnic Art to Emphasize Laws of Reflection
- Steel Spheres and Skydiver — Terminal Velocity
- A Simple Demonstration of Back emf
- Interacting Compasses
- The Real Prize Inside: Learning About Science and Spectra from Cereal Boxes
- Why Does the Goldfish Disappear in the Fishbowl?
- The "Nut-Drop" Experiment—Bringing Millikan's Challenge to Introductory Students
- Motors and Bulbs in Series
- Time Trials — An AP Physics Challenge Lab
- Physics Labs with Flavor
- Double-Glazing Interferometry
- The YouTube Makeup Class
- An MBL Experiment to Analyze the Torque on a Rigid Body
- Nanomagnetism: A Case History of Nanoscience and Technology
- Kinematic Measurements from YouTube Videos
- Cellular Phones Helping To Get a Clearer Picture of Kinematics
- Innovative Uses of Video Analysis
- An Exercise in Vehicle Kinematics and Energetics
- A Physics Road Rally
- The Glass Computer
- Analog of Optical Elements for Sound Waves in Air
- Video Analysis with a Web Camera
- Electricity: From Tabletop to Power Plant
- Plucked String on a Shoestring Budget
- The Salty Science of the Aluminum-Air Battery
- Teaching Measurement and Uncertainty the GUM Way
- A Model of the Human Eye
- Podcasting a Physics Lecture
- The Smallest Tweezers in the World
- Orbital Motion of Electrically Charged Spheres in Microgravity
- The Surprising Effectiveness of College Scientific Literacy Courses
- A Cool Sport Full of Physics
- Measurement of g Using a Flashing LED
- A Physics Show Performed by Students for Kids: From Mechanics to Elementary Particle Physics
- The Blowgun Demonstration Experiment
- Rainbow-Like Spectra with a CD: An Active-Learning Exercise
- Megapixels and Human Recognition of Resolution
- Energy and the Confused Student V: The Energy/Momentum Approach to Problems Involving Rotating and Deformable Systems
- Electric Motorboat Drag Racing: A hands-on physics project that motivates students from start to finish
- Lava Lamp
- Energy and the Confused Student IV: A Global Approach to Energy
- Determining Absolute Zero Using a Tuning Fork
- Look Around to Learn Physics
- Energy and the Confused Student III: Language
- Young's Modulus of a Marshmallow
- Kinematics of a Head-Neck Model Simulating Whiplash
- Energy and the Confused Student II: Systems
- Energy Conservation Simplified
- Escape from the Pipeline: Women Using Physics Outside Academia
- Speed of Sound in Metal Pipes: An Inexpensive Lab
- A Black Hole in Our Galactic Center
- The Challenge of Teaching Introductory Physics to Premedical Students
- GEOMAGTM Paradoxes
- Is It More Thrilling to Ride at the Front or the Back of a Roller Coaster?
- Precipitation in the Solar System
- An Electromagnetic Induction Flashlight Experiment
- Modeling Physics with Easy Java Simulations
- Physics Northwest: An Academic Alliance
- Student Selection of the Textbook for an Introductory Physics Course
- Spherical Rare-Earth Magnets in Introductory Physics
- Strong Little Magnets
- Inquiry with Laser Printer Diffraction Gratings
- Aerodynamics of a Party Balloon
- Report on the 2006 AAPT Apparatus Competition
- Some Interesting Thermodynamics of the Thermos Flask
- Flexible Faraday Cage with a Twist: Surface Charge on a Möbius Strip
- Why Shiny Metals Are Poor Emitters of Radiation
- Two Kinds of Electron?
- A Data Analysis for the Inverse Square Law
- "Physics with a Smile"—Explaining Phenomena with a Qualitative Problem-Solving Strategy
- Experimenting with Electric Trains
- Material and Optical Densities
- Playground Physics: Determining the Moment of Inertia of a Merry-Go-Round
- Providing Support to Inner-city Students and Teachers Through the Physics Van Inservice Institute
- Thank You for Flying the Vomit Comet
- INSPIRE: A VLF Radio Project for High School Students
- What Happened to Pluto?
- CD Rainbows
- Teaching College Physics at the Local Elementary School
- Simple Experiments for Teaching Air Pressure
- A Brush-Creeper
- Electrostatics with Computer-Interfaced Charge Sensors
- Reflection with a Twist: The Helical Mirror
- An Atmospheric Pressure Ping-Pong "Ballometer"
- Doppler Football
- Kelvin and the Trans-Atlantic Cable
- Estimating the Speed of Light from Earth-Moon Communication
- Creating a Virtual Ripple Tank in Microsoft Word
- Making and Evaluating an Electrical Battery
- Rocket Propulsion with Sparklers
- What Was I Thinking?
- Squishy Materials
- An Extension of the Imploding Can Demonstration
- Why Do We Feel Weightless in Free Fall?
- Albert Einstein and Mosscicki''s Patent Application
- Teaching Image Formation by a Lens
- Hands-on Synchronization: An Adaptive Clockwork Universe
- Mechanics in the Real World
- Drugstore Reading Glasses
- When Is a Capacitor NOT a Capacitor?
- Sine Waves in the Snow
- Quantitative Investigation of Thermal Expansion Using Single-Slit Diffraction
- PhET: Interactive Simulations for Teaching and Learning Physics
- All Atoms Are (About) the Same Size
- Resonance in Flasks and Pipes
- Einstein in My Hometown
- A Low-Cost Sounding Balloon Experiment
- Photographing Auroras
- Godzilla Versus Scaling Laws of Physics
- Challenge Laboratories
- Demonstrating Beats with Springs and a Cart
- A Bernoulli's Law Lab in a Bottle
- Hysteresis Loops of a Ferromagnet
- Five Quantitative Physics Experiments (Almost) Without Special Apparatus
- Physics the Google Way
- It's About Time: Mark Twain's "My Watch" and Relativity
- Soap, Colors, Holes, and Much More
- Physics First: The Right-Side-Up Science Sequence
- Albert Einstein: The Violinist
- Surfing a Standing Wave
- Hands-on Experiments on Faraday's Law
- The Speed of Sound in Air: An At-Home Experiment
- Organize Your Own Road Show for WYP 2005 and Beyond
- Einstein in Western Maryland
- Measuring Distances with Walkie-Talkies
- Advice from an Out-of-Field Physics Teacher
- Visualization Tool for 3-D Relationships and the Right-Hand Rule
- My Half Hour with Einstein
- How About a Magnet and a Paper Clip?
- Prescribing Eyeglasses for Myopia and Hyperopia
- Teaching E = mc2: Mass Without Mass
- Collaborative Competition? A Great Way to Teach and Motivate
- Speed of Sound Using Lissajous Figures
- Universe Interactive: Static Displays with Active Components
- The Surprising Impact of Seat Location on Student Performance
- The Ping-Pong Cannon: A Closer Look
- The Simplest Motor?
- Physics on the Bus—How About Physics on Your Bus?
- The Freezing of Streams and Ponds: A Simple—But Uncomfortable—Experiment
- Physics Outreach for WYP
- Robert Jemison "Tee" Van de Graaff: From Football Fields to Electric Fields
- Demonstration of Beats with a Double-Driven String
- Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion for the Classroom
- The Haunted Physics Lab
- Model Rocketry in the 21st-Century Physics Classroom
- The Metal Detector and Faraday's Law
- The X-ray Shoe Fitter - An Early Application of Roentgen''s 'New Kind of Ray'
- Following in Einstein's Footsteps: Teaching the Photoelectric Effect
- Creating and Maintaining a High School Physics Research Program
- Just What Did Archimedes Say About Buoyancy?
- Reflections on Handedness
- Compact Fluorescent Lamp Observed Through a Diffraction Grating
- Parallel Plate Capacitor at Home
- Floating Magnets as Two-Dimensional Atomic Models
- How Many Students Does It Take Before We See the Light?
- Student Explorations of Quantum Effects in LEDs and Luminescent Devices
- Kick Dis Power Puck
- Color Mixer for Every Student
- Rollover of Sport Utility Vehicles
- Centrifugal Icicles and an Inertial Paradox
- Wire Diffraction Gratings
- The Bohr Staircase
- The World Year of Physics in 2005
- The Pendulum, Gravity, and that Number "9.8"
- A Student-Centered Interactive Color Quiz
- Using Computer-Generated Animations as an Aid in Teaching Wave Motion and Sound
- Coriolis Force on Your Arms
- An Historico-Critical Account of Potential Energy: Is PE Really Real?
- Tycho Brahe's Stjerneborg
- A Triple Rainbow?
- Projectile Motion Model
- Physics Was Once First and Was Once for All
- Fractals in the Classroom
- Measuring Horsepower and Torque Curves of a Car
- Fluid Flow with Logger Pro
- Physical Push-ups
- The Answer Is Forty-Two — Many Mechanics Problems, Only One Answer
- The Doctor Is In
- Galileo's Lens
- Collecting and Recording Bicycle Speed Data by CBL
- Conceptual Physics in Two-Year Colleges
- Specular Reflection from a Rough Surface
- How Fast Is Your Finger? An Introduction to Photogate Use
- Experimental Determination of Absolute Zero Temperature
- The Gauss Rifle and Magnetic Energy
- A Physics Teacher in Europe
- Physics in the Art Museum
- More Diamagnetism Demonstrations
- Induced Current Measurement of Rod Vibrations
- Warning! Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
- Logarithmic Scales: A Useful Example
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