TPT October 2018 cover image

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Volume 56 Issue 7, October 2018

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The Physics Teacher

This month's cover shows an elegant Lissajous figure adapted from the cover of Thomas Greenslade’s new book Adventures with LissajousÌý Figures (2018, Morgan & Claypool Publishers), created on his double-elliptic harmonograph.Ìý See for more about Lissajous figures, and some connections to music, history, and art.

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Letters to the Editor

by Said Shakerin, and Edwin Pejack. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055314

by Laurence Tarini. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055315

by Rod Cross. DOI: /10.1119/1.5055316

by Tommaso Rosi, Pasquale Onorato, Luigi Gratton, and Stefano Oss. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055317

Columns

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Papers

by Michael J. Ruiz. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055319

by John A. Daffron, and Thomas B. Greenslade Jr. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055320

by Lakshya Kaura, Akshat Mallya, and Vijay A. Singh. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055322

by Scott A. Lee, and Zachary Richards. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055323

by Gabriel I. Font, and Anthony N. Dills. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055324

by Zahra Hazari, and Cheryl Cass. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055325

by David Rosengrant. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055327

by Travis Rector, Michelle Wooten, Andrew Puckett, Catherine Pilachowski, and Kimberly Coble. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055328

by Michael LoPresto. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055329

by Gilit Porat, and Shulamit Kapon. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055330

by Kathleen Foote, and Silvia Martino. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055331

by Alicia C. Alonzo, and Claudia von Aufschnaiter. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055332

by F. Behroozi. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055333

by Lars-Jochen Thoms, Giuseppe Colicchia, and Raimund Girwidz. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055334

Book Reviews

by Jennifer Birriel. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055335

bu David M. Smith. DOI: 10.1119/1.5055336

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Additional Resources

Race and Physics Teaching Collection Resource

DNA Science TPT Element

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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