Take a closer look at the cover art that defined each issue |  | Highlighting The Physics Teacher's Issue Covers of 2024 | Totaling over 20,000 downloads, the following articles are some of the top downloaded papers in each issue of The Physics Teacher (TPT) from last year. These outstanding publications highlight some of the most impactful papers, issue by issue. Take a closer look at the cover art that defined each issue from 2024—click each thumbnail to view the issue cover and discover its most downloaded paper below. | | With a 9.1 author satisfaction rating, your research is supported by a journal that values quality and transparency. | | | | | | | A "Perpetual Motion Machine" Powered by Electromagnetism Hollis Williams
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| January 2024 This month's cover depicts the extent of the Arctic ice on December 3, 2023 (represented in white) as compared to the maximum extent of the contours of the 15% ice edge (the yellow boundary, from 1992) during the period from 1978 to the present; the red curve (from 2016) represents the least extent of the Arctic ice during that interval. |
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Using 19th-Century Physics to Discover Einstein's Most Famous Equation Arthur Hovey
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| February 2024 "Only Rainbows After Rain" won first place in the "contrived" category in the 2023 AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest. Photographer Sophia Uselman attends Columbus School for Girls in Columbus, Ohio (Kevin Sweeney, physics teacher). The largest raindrops on the surface of the iPad magnify the pixels, appearing as a grid of white dots, while the smallest drops sometimes reveal beautiful colors and combinations. The photo contest, sponsored by Vernier Science Education, begins on March 1 and runs through May 15, 2024. See https://aapt.org/Programs/PhotoContest/index.cfm for more details. |
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Designing for Proudness Angela J. Little, Gregory Curry, Ember Smith, Jamia Whitehorn, et al.
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| March 2024 This month's cover features young scientists examining a recent solar eclipse; on April 8, 2024, much of the central US will experience a total eclipse. See the AstroNotes Column on page 228 for more details about the eclipse and other upcoming astronomy events from Cherilynn Morrow of the NASA PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission. Credit: Courtesy Mark Margolis/ Rainbow Symphony. |
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Repurposing Concept Inventories to Help Students Find Gaps in Explanations Tiffany-Rose Sikorski, Brandon K. Lee
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| April 2024 This month's cover shows BICEP2 (the Back- ground Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization telescope) near the South Pole, which measures the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. See Don Lincoln's article "What is Cosmic Inflation?" on page 250 for details about how BICEP2 fits into the cosmic inflation story. |
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A Simple and Cost-Effective Fluid Dynamics Apparatus to Engage Students in the Classroom and Laboratory David James Horne, Lily Zheng, Bryce King
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| May 2024 This month's cover features a student examining a thin film of soapy fluid. See the article by David James Horne, Lily Zheng, and Bryce King on page 330 for more details about building a fluid dynamics apparatus to support the study of such fascinating films. |
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Direct Observations and Measurements of Single Atoms Natascha Hedrich, Ilia Sergachev, Jonathan Home, Andreas Lichtenberger
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| September 2024 This month's cover shows sparks flying when a rotating grinder wheel is used to remove sharp points from screws while creating home-made mandolins. The photo, one of the top 100 in the 2024 AAPT H.S. Physics Photo Contest is titled "Sparks of Knowledge," by Muhammad Ahmad of Skaneateles High School (teacher: Daniel Kurzen, see https://aapt.org/Programs/PhotoContest/index.cfm). So much physics here! --- The length of the spark paths, the directions, the colors, the brightness...what strikes you? |
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Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Tethered Buoys Hans C. Mayer
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| October 2024 This month's cover is a colorful representation of a phase diagram for nuclear matter. Everyday states of matter such as gases, liquids and solids reside in the lower left of this figure. As the temperature and density are increased, not only are atoms broken down, but the protons and neutrons of the nucleus melt into an exotic mix known as a quark/gluon plasma. See the article on page 550 by Don Lincoln for details, "Quark/Gluon Plasma: When Protons Melt." Figure credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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Buzz Lightyear and the Physics Classroom: Can Science Fiction Animated Movies Spark In-Class Discussion of Time Dilation? Esmeralda Campos, Martin Hopf
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| November 2024 This month's cover features a circumhorizontal arc photographed by Judy Smith. See John Adam's Fermi Questions Column item "Sky Smiley Face" on page 687 for more information about this fascinating colorful phenomenon. |
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Oblique Collisions Between Billiard Balls for Introductory Physics Alan J. DeWeerd
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| December 2024 This month's cover features billiard balls in a colorful array, serving to draw you in to our lead article which addresses this and related questions. You may have heard that when a cue ball collides with a stationary 8-ball, the final velocities are perpendicular to each other---but when does this theoretical result have relevance for a billiard player in the real world? (photo credit, David Moss, http://www.davidmossphoto.com). |
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