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The Physics Show -- A community college delivers BIG on community outreach
Frank Cascarano, David Marasco
Founded in 2007, the Foothill College Physics Show has served nearly a quarter of a million attendees in the two decades that have followed. This demo show features both performanc…
Phone physics and the Gateway Arch: Fun with friends and physics at the AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis
David Marasco, Bree Barnett Dreyfuss
As a famous landmark and feat of engineering, the Gateway Arch was a popular destination at the 2025 AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis. The visit to the observation deck of the Gate…
Clickers in the '60s at a TYC?
David Marasco
At an AAPT conference years ago, a person noticed my badge, exclaiming "I always wanted to work at Foothill College!" They told me that in the 1960s, Foothill had a lecture hall wh…
Teaching an Old Ball New Tricks: Another Look at Energetics, Motion Detectors and a Bouncing Rubber Ball
David Marasco
A bouncing rubber ball under a motion sensor is a classic of introductory physics labs. It is often used to measure the acceleration due to gravity, and can also demonstrate conser…
Cosmological Calculations on the GPU
Deborah Bard, Matthew Bellis, Mark T. Allen +2
Cosmological measurements require the calculation of nontrivial quantities over large datasets. The next generation of survey telescopes (such as DES, PanSTARRS, and LSST) will yie…