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20202025
most citedTeaching an Old Ball New Tricks: Another Look at Energetics, Motion Detectors and a Bouncing Rubber Ball

4 citations · 6 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.ed-ph2025

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…

cs.AI2023

Literature-based Discovery for Landscape Planning

David Marasco, Ilya Tyagin, Justin Sybrandt +2

This project demonstrates how medical corpus hypothesis generation, a knowledge discovery field of AI, can be used to derive new research angles for landscape and urban planners. T…

physics.ed-ph2021

It's good to be popular in high school: A look at disparities in STEM AP offerings in Northern California public high schools

David Marasco, Bree Barnett Dreyfuss

In 2018, in response to the proposed elimination of physics at a predominately Hispanic and socioeconomically disadvantaged (SED) high school, the Northern California/Nevada chapte…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 2 cited

Bringing the welcome home: One section's efforts at incorporating AAPT's diversity and inclusion practices

Bree Barnett Dreyfuss, David Marasco

While AAPT and many other physics organizations have been introducing a series of effective practices around diversity and inclusion at the national level in recent years, it was w…

physics.ed-ph2020

Schools on different corners: An investigation into the effects of ethnicity and socioeconomic status on physics offerings in Northern California public high schools

David Marasco, Bree Barnett Dreyfuss

In the spring of 2018 the Northern California/Nevada section of the American Association of Physics Teachers was alerted to a local high school's plans to eliminate physics for the…

physics.ed-ph2020★ 4 cited

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…