Pedagogy

Musical Acoustics

Fully Open & Half Open Tube Resonances 

• Tube Resonances photo
• Tube Resonances Graph

Tuning Fork 2^nd Harmonic

• How Does a Tuning Fork Move?
• Tuning Fork and Resonant Boxes
• Tuning Fork on a Homework Box!

Work and Friction

A number of freshman physics textbooks correctly point out that, since work is properly calculated using the displacement of the contact point, the normal force from a stationary wall does no work. Read more

Efficacy of Freshman Laboratory

• Value added or misattributed? A multi-institution study on the educational benefit of labs for reinforcing physics content