December 2017 issue of The Physics Teacher

Volume 55 Issue 9, December 2017

The Physics Teacher

This month's cover is “Oobleck on a Speaker” by Darren Seaney at Glenbard West HS (teacher: Bruce Medic) in Glen Ellyn, IL, one of the winners of the 2017 91ߣɫ High School Physics Photo Contest. Oobleck is a mixture of cornstarch and water (and sometimes food coloring) that is endlessly entertaining because you can slowly dip your toe into it, like in any liquid, but if you punch it, it turns as solid as the floor.

Letters to the Editor

by Eugene Hecht. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011819

by Andreas Valadakis. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011820

by Frank Lock. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011821

Columns

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Papers

by Amy D. Robertson, and Leslie J. Atkins Elliott. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011823

by Antonio Carlos Fontes Santos. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011824

by Carl E. Mungan. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011825

by Adrian Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, and Eleanor C. Sayre. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011826

by Nada Razpet, and Tomaž Kranjc. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011827

by Alan Bates. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011830

by Jim, and Jane Nelson. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011831

by Zachary Sherin, Philip Tan, Heather Fairweather, and Gerd Kortemeyer. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011832

by José Costa Leme, and Agostinho Oliveira. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011833

by Tom Claessens. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011834

by Richard Kaufman. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011835

by Dave Vernier. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011836

by Drew Neilson, and Todd Campbell. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011837

by Rafi’ Safadi. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011839

by James Lincoln. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011847

Book Reviews

by Maryanne Angliongto. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011828

by Scott Henderson. DOI: 10.1119/1.5011829

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