Jacobs Physics

The 2020 digital AP physics exams were all digital, all at home.  That meant the development committees had to go many extra miles to produc...

Hi, I'm Greg.  You may remember me from such films as the 2020 AP Live video series .  My friend Josh Beck and I were live on the Colleg...

A physics phriend discovered a question about a massive pulley.  Look at the diagram to the right.  The hanging block of mass m  is allowed ...

I'm doing a one-semester AP Physics 2 intensive course for some very dedicated students.  On a typical day we take a fundamentals quiz; ...

The question was asked on a physics teachers message board: How do you deal with a rope-and-pulley situation if the rope isn't truly mas...

Where do you start with AP Physics 1 (or C) rotation, especially in a Pandemic Year when you might have a lot of virtual students? Think of ...

In 2015, I was in London for a month on sabbatical.  I went to three football games, one Victorian pottery factory, toured several sports ca...

Does every student need to do the same number of practice problems? Early in the year, yes.  Even the best students need practice.  Even All...

All done for the conceptual physics institute in 2021!  I'll probably schedule another in summer 2022.  Do please let me know if you hav...

A correspondent has questions about how I deal with g  in conceptual physics: I notice that you intentionally use g as 10 N/kg instead of m/...