Explore the Forces of Flight with a New Digital Lesson Make physics exciting and relevant for your high schoolers with the new, free digital lesson plan, Ocean Landing, brought to you by Discovery Education in partnership with the U.S. Navy. Students will investigate how pilots launch and land high-speed F35 jets on the flight deck
Calendar of Cool: P.T. Barnum’s Circus Begins First Tour of the U.S.
On this day in 1835, famed showman P.T. Barnum and his circus, The Greatest Show on Earth, started their first tour of the U.S. Phineas Taylor Barnum, self-proclaimed Prince of Humbugs, was eager stretch the truth if that’s what it took to gather a crowd. One of his best known humbugs, or tricks, was the
Protocol for Solving Physics (and math) word problems
The protocol is an appraoch to problem solving for Physics that was taught to me by my mentor. It works for most word problems in general. 10 steps 1. read the problem 2. create a meanful diagram 3. determine the variables 4. assign values to variables (what you are given and what you know, and
The Physics Behind “Unstoppable”
The Physics Behind “Unstoppable” is a great piece I found on Open Culture’s website. The article starts with the plot of the movie and a trailer for it and then has a video from Emory physics professor Sidney Perkowitz explaining the physics part of this. Professor Perkowitz has also authored books and articles on physics and science in