AAPT Book Archive

In partnership with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), AIP Publishing has digitized a backlist of classic texts, making the full text available in HTML online for the first time. The AAPT Book Archive collection includes 34 titles originally published in print between 1977 and 2017.

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Titles included in the AAPT Book Archive

Title	Author/ Editor	Pub Date
Exploring Laser Light	T. Kallard	1977
50 Years on Teaching Physics	Editor: Melba Phillips	1979
Making Contributions: an historical overview of women’s role in physics	Editor: Barbara Lotze	1984
A Potpourri of Physics Teaching Ideas	Editor: Donna Berry Conner	1987
String and Sticky Tape Experiments	R.D. Edge	1987
Teaching About D.C. Electric Circuits	Earl R. Feltyberger, James Mallmann, Judy M. Schmidt and Thomas Senior	1990
How Things Work	H. Richard Crane	1992
Teaching About Electrostatics	Robert A. Morse	1992
Used Math: For the First Two Years of College Science	Clifford R. Swartz	1993
Teaching About Lightwave Communications	Mark Davids, R. Stephen Rea and Paul Zitzewitz	1994
Role of the Laboratory in Teaching Introductory Physics	Jim Nelson and Jane Braye Nelson	1995
A Demonstration Handbook for Physics	G. D. Frier and F. J. Anderson	1996
Teaching About Color and Color Vision	Bill Franklin	1996
Teaching About Magnetism	Robert Reiland	1996
Teaching About Cosmology	Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman	1999
The Role of Graphing Calculators in Teaching Physics TI-83	Cherie Bibo Lehman, Linda J. Antinone and John E. Gastineau	1999
The Role of Toys in Teaching Physics	Jodi McCullough and Roy McCullough	2000
Interactive Physics Demonstrations	Editor: Joe Pizzo	2001
Safety in Physics Education	AAPT Apparatus Committee	2001
Insights into the Universe: effective ways to teach astronomy	Editors: Timothy F. Slater and Michael Zeilik	2003
The Dick and Rae Physics Demo Notebook	D. Rae Carpenter, Jr. and Richard B. Minnix	2003
Exploring Physics in the Classroom	George Amann, Jon E. Barber and Hank J. Ryan	2005
Teaching About Impulse and Momentum	Bill Franklin	2005
Teaching About Energy	John L. Roeder	2008
Teaching About Kinematics	Jane Bray Nelson and Jim Nelson	2009
Preconceptions in Mechanics: Lessons Dealing with Students’ Conceptual Difficulties	Charles W. Camp and John J. Clement	2010
Amusement Park Physics	Clarence Bakken	2011
Teaching Physics for the First Time	Jan Mader and Mary Winn	2012
Teaching Physics for the First Time: student edition	Jan Mader and Mary Winn	2012
Teaching About Magnets and Magnetism	Jane Bray Nelson and Jim Nelson	2013
Teaching About Newton’s Second Law	Robert A. Morse	2013
Teaching About Kinematics: student edition	Jane Bray Nelson and Jim Nelson	2015
With You When You Fly: Aeronautics for Introductory Physics	NASA and AAPT	2015
Physics and 21st Century Science Standards: the role of physics in the NGSS	AAPT	2017