The Physics Teacher, May 2025

The Physics Teacher

May2025
Volume 63Issue 5

This Month's cover...features three lasers pointing downward onto a glass plate atop a white sheet of paper, forming a pattern reminiscent of water waves when a stone is tossed into a pond. See “”by Jiasheng Wu, Sihui Wang, and Wei Zhuang, for more information, along with other arresting images from the Visual Physics collection.

Columns

, And the Survey Says..., Astronotes, Fermi Questions, Figuring Physics, For the New Teacher, iPhysicsLabs, Just Physics, Little Gems, Physics Challenge for Teachers and Students, Talkin' Physics, Technology In The Classroom, Tricks of the Trade, TCY Tidbits, Visual Physics, and Websights.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

by Peter F. Hinrichsen. DOI: 10.1119/5.0263993

by Hasan Yıldırım. DOI: 10.1119/5.0267679

by Terrence Toepker. DOI: 10.1119/5.0270901

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PAPERS

by Bogdan M. Leu; Dean A. Stocker. DOI: 10.1119/5.0183560

by Rod Cross. DOI: 10.1119/5.0181520

by Nathaniel R. Greene; Luke A. Smith. DOI: 10.1119/5.0203334

by Aaron M. Kraft; James Day; Joss Ives; D. A. Bonn. DOI: 10.1119/5.0180851

by Lauren Barth-Cohen; Jordan M. Gerton; Kevin Davenport; Kelby T. Hahn; Jason May. DOI: 10.1119/5.0159520

by Chitnarong Sirisathitkul. DOI: 10.1119/5.0205553

by Yi Jinn Lillian Chen; Shuo-Hong Wang; Jiann-Shing Lih; Tzu-Chun Chen; Jeng-Fung Hung; Jing-Yuan Ko. DOI: 10.1119/5.0180264

by Zuzana Gibová; Ján Kecer; Mária Koval’aková. DOI: 10.1119/5.0163086

by Dan Liu; Matthew Tyler Burk; Jeewoo Kim. DOI: 10.1119/5.0188505

by Michael J. Gladys; Paul C. Dastoor. DOI: 10.1119/5.0191286

by Gerardo Giordano. DOI: 10.1119/5.0202740

by Rod Cross; Kenneth Brecher. DOI: 10.1119/5.0177645

by Craig W. Looney. DOI: 10.1119/5.0173909

by Mikolaj (“Mik”) Sawicki. DOI: 10.1119/5.0128296

by Athanasios Gkourmpis. DOI: 10.1119/5.0134725

by Yang Zhiqiang; Qi Wei; Xiao Yan Zhu; Jin Tao; Xing Feng Zhu. DOI: 10.1119/5.0202045

by Ebrahim Heidari Semiromi. DOI: 10.1119/5.0211528

by Aqi Pan; Yi Fang; Kaiyang Zhang; Shouping Tang; Jin Tao. DOI: 10.1119/5.0173951

by Václav Šebelík. DOI: 10.1119/5.0180852

by Shafiq Ur Rehman. DOI: 10.1119/5.0170839