Physics Resource Bank

Reposting this from years ago to mark the passing of David Hockney. t must be either evidence of Stockholm Syndrome or excessive nerdiness that I have a list in my head of my favourite LC Physics questions. Some I like because of the challenge they present, some because they were a bit of a gift to students, and some because of the subject matter they highlight. And if I had to pick just one, it would be part of that latter group: question 12c from 2017, which focussed on th

With classes finally at an end for the class of 2026, the textbooks shown here have also come to what I hope is a dignified end (though one of them has managed to reinvent itself very stylishly for the new era). As some of you will know, I had a part to play in one of these (for Edco) and these are my scattered thoughts from my experience with that book, in no particular order: First off, publishing a book is a big undertaking, that involves a very significant investment fro

I just uploaded a possible end-of-year activity that's fun and (somewhat) educational and that was shared by the always entertaining Kate Urell. It challenges students to match famous scientists with the appropriate story: so, for example, which famous physicist married his first cousin? What astronomer had a gold nose? Whose mother was tried for witchcraft, distracting him from his untangling of the universe (but also providing a fascinating back story when he (possibly) inv

Some of you may have come across this at a few Oide events this year, but I thought it was worth sharing here - not least because it's a free, open-source, non-commercial resource, and the more of them we have the better! Kudos to Doug Brown for creating this. I understand he is a teacher in the underappreciated US Community College system, in Cabrillo College in California. Essentially, the software allows you to create graphs directly from video. The homepage is here: Tra