January 2018 Issue of The Physics Teacher

Volume 56 Issue 1, January 2018

The Physics Teacher

This month's cover is a fascinating view from inside an ice cave by Hans Strand (copyright Hans Strand Photography). Notice at the bottom left how the dirt outlines the sharper edges of the ice. This curious phenomenon is addressed by Bruce Ackerson in his also fascinating article,

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Editorial

by Geraldine L. Cochran, and Gary D. White. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018672

Letters to the Editor

by Lior M. Burko. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018673

by Rachel E. Scherr. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018674

by Amy D. Robertson. DOI:10.1119/1.5018675

Columns

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Papers

by Rod Cross and Crawford Lindsey. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018677

by Bruce J. Ackerson. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018678

by Allen I. Janis. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018679

by Rafael Garcia-Molina, Alejandro del Mazo, and Santiago Velasco. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018680

by Jair Lu´cio Prados Ribeiro. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018681

by Jennifer J. Birriel and Damon King. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018682

by Victor E. Henrich. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018686

by Jo-Anne Brown. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018687

by R. G. Tobin. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018689

by Andrzej Sokolowski. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018690

by Elena J. Sojourner, Adam J. Burgasser, and Eric D. Weise. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018692

by Stanislaw Bednar. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018694

by Frederick J. Thomas, Robert A. Chaney, and Mart Gruesbeck. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018695

Book Reviews

by Brian C. Utter. DOI: 10.1119/1.5018684

by Stone Oliver, Alexander Staron, and Jennifer Marie Blue> DOI: 10.1119/1.5018685

Additional Resources

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DNA Science Lesson & Digi-Kit

Inspired by an article from The Physics Teacher, this multidisciplinary lesson and digital resource collection is based on How Rosalind Franklin Discovered the Helical Structure of DNA: Experiments in Diffraction (Braun, Tierney, & Schmitzer, 2011). Click the image to access this resource.

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