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DiLisi, Gregory A. – Physics Teacher, 2017
This May marks the 80th anniversary of the "Hindenburg" disaster. On May 6, 1937, the German passenger zeppelin "Hindenburg," hovering 300 feet in the air and held aloft by seven million cubic feet of hydrogen gas, burst into flames while preparing to dock at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, NJ (Fig. 1). Amazingly, the…
Descriptors: Science History, Death, Physics, Air Transportation
Widenhorn, Ralf – Physics Teacher, 2016
The Portland Timbers won their first Major League Soccer (MLS) Cup Championship in December 2015. However, if it had not been for a kind double goalpost miss during a penalty shootout a few weeks earlier, the Timbers would never have been in the finals. On Oct. 30th, after what has been called "the greatest penalty kick shootout in MLS…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Computation, Probability, Incidence
Greenslade, Thomas B., Jr. – Physics Teacher, 2011
The geometrical shapes in Fig. 1 recently came into the Greenslade Collection. The semi-triangular pieces of wood looked like slices from a pie, each 22.5 degrees in angular width. They were tied together with a thin leather band tacked around their curved surfaces. What is this apparatus?
Descriptors: Geometry, Geometric Concepts, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Mungan, Carl E. – Physics Teacher, 2009
Rayleigh's criterion states that a pair of point sources are barely resolved by an optical instrument when the central maximum of the diffraction pattern due to one source coincides with the first minimum of the pattern of the other source. As derived in standard introductory physics textbooks, the first minimum for a rectangular slit of width "a"…
Descriptors: Optics, Physics, Science Instruction, Textbooks