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The Physics Teacher -- March 2008 -- Volume 46, Issue 3, pp. 158

Look Around to Learn Physics

Hassan Mohammadpour

Allame Helli High School, Tehran, Iran

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I always tell my students: “Physics is all around,” and “Just observe carefully to learn physics.” This paper describes one of my own experiences in looking carefully at light reflection and, in particular, the difference between specular reflection and diffuse reflection. I also describe how I have adapted this experience for use with my students. During my years as a high school teacher, I have read many papers in TPT that describe other teachers' interesting physics-related experiences. It was those accounts that stimulated me to write this paper.

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physics education, educational aids, light reflection, mirrors, light sources

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Online Feb 2008

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0031-921X (print)  

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2840980

  1. My desk lamp has a small filament and behaves similar to a bright point-source of light.
  2. Paul Hewitt, Conceptual Physics, 9th ed. (Addison-Wesley, 2002), pp. 533–538.


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