Jacobs Physics

Hi, all!  The Jacobs Physics blog, archives and all, have migrated to jacobsphysics.org .  I'm escaping Google, for reasons .  Come visi...

 In conceptual physics, students are offered three possible ways to justify an answer: 1. Fact:  Write a fact verbatim from our fact sheet, ...

Aha!  We have a date... McGraw-Hill says that both the Physics 1 book and the Physics C book will publish on October 15, 2024.  Here is a li...

I have an aluminum cylinder here.  I hang the cylinder from a string, and attach the top end of the string to a force probe.*  The probe rea...

Fluid mechanics is trading places.  Since 2015, fluids has been part of the P2 curriculum, for the 25,000 or so students who take that exam....

Will Keay, who teaches in Fairfax, Virginia, came to judge the Woodberry Forest Conceptual Physics Tournament last weekend.  His class pet,...

By popular request, my June 24-27 APSI through PWISTA will now be online.  You can sign up through this link. Online means you can attend fr...

In the spring, our headmaster reminds us how this is a tremendously emotional time for seniors as they approach a significant ending of one ...

With three weeks to go before the AP physics exams, it's worth remembering that our students don't need MORE practice problems ; rat...

My AP Physics 2 class is an ungraded honors course.  There's not even a contract.  There is a careful selection process - students are ...