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  1. The challenge of explaining why

    Article • The Physics Teacher, November 2016, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  2. Satellite splat II: an inelastic collision with a surface-launched projectile and the maximum orbital radius for planetary impact

    Article • European Journal of Physics, May 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan, Dr. Philip Blanco

  3. In defense of derivations,

    Article • The Physics Teacher, May 2016, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  4. Sampling discretization can lead to strange shapes of data curves

    Article • The Physics Teacher, April 2016, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  5. Buoyant beaker balls

    Article • The Physics Teacher, March 2016, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  6. Gravitational potential: real-life results

    Article • Physics Education, December 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  7. Pressure Change in an Arterial Constriction

    Article • The Physics Teacher, December 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  8. MULTIPLICATIVE PROPERTY OF THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION

    Article • American Journal of Physics, December 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  9. Radial descent of an energetically unbound spacecraft toward a comet

    Article • The Physics Teacher, November 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  10. More about the puzzle of a marble in a spinning pipe

    Article • Physics Education, October 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  11. Impulse and work for the bullet-block Veritasium video

    Article • The Physics Teacher, September 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  12. Entropy change for the irreversible heat transfer between two finite objects

    Article • European Journal of Physics, June 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  13. The puzzle of a marble in a spinning pipe

    Article • Physics Education, April 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  14. Satellite splat: an inelastic collision with a surface-launched projectile

    Article • European Journal of Physics, April 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan, Dr. Philip Blanco

  15. Negative Work Done by a Person

    Article • The Physics Teacher, April 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  16. Activating a radiometer with a hair dryer

    Article • The Physics Teacher, April 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  17. The Pursuit of a Plane by a Homing Missile

    Article • The Physics Teacher, February 2015, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  18. Identical distinguishable gas particles in the real world

    Article • Resonance, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  19. … And hand-cranked induction

    Article • The Physics Teacher, December 2014, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  20. Motor Demonstration Using a Hand-Cranked Genecon

    Article • The Physics Teacher, October 2014, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  21. Lifting a cup of water with an immersion blender

    Article • The Physics Teacher, September 2014, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  22. Dropping a particle out of a roller coaster

    Article • European Journal of Physics, April 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  23. SILVERED PING-PONG BALL BOUNCING UP AND DOWN INSIDE A CAPACITOR

    Article • American Journal of Physics, February 2014, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  24. Analytically solving Tarzan's dilemma

    Article • The Physics Teacher, January 2014, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  25. Oscillations of a quadratically damped pendulum

    Article • European Journal of Physics, July 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  26. Mechanical Energy Changes in Perfectly Inelastic Collisions

    Article • The Physics Teacher, April 2013, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  27. Complementary curves of descent

    Article • European Journal of Physics, November 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  28. The magnetocatenary

    Article • European Journal of Physics, September 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  29. Frictional torque on a rotating disc

    Article • European Journal of Physics, June 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  30. Rolling friction on a wheeled laboratory cart

    Article • Physics Education, April 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  31. Conceptual and laboratory exercise to apply Newton’s second law to a system of many forces

    Article • Physics Education, April 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  32. The Physics of Shot Towers

    Article • The Physics Teacher, April 2012, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  33. Babylonian resistor networks

    Article • European Journal of Physics, March 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  34. Measurement of upconversion in Er:YAG via z-scan

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, September 2011, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  35. Hanging angles of two electrostatically repelling pith balls of different masses

    Article • European Journal of Physics, August 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  36. The Bernoulli equation in a moving reference frame

    Article • European Journal of Physics, February 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  37. Rolling the Black Pearl Over: Analyzing the Physics of a Movie Clip

    Article • The Physics Teacher, January 2011, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  38. Electrostatic repulsion of charged pith balls hanging from strings

    Article • European Journal of Physics, December 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  39. More about the falling raindrop

    Article • American Journal of Physics, December 2010, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  40. Sign issues for one‐dimensional vectors

    Article • The Physics Teacher, October 2010, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  41. Radial Motion of Two Mutually Attracting Particles

    Article • The Physics Teacher, November 2009, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  42. Repairing an elementary explantion of radiation pressure

    Article • American Journal of Physics, November 2009, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  43. Chemical potential of one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillators

    Article • European Journal of Physics, August 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  44. Comment on ‘The two-capacitor problem revisited: a mechanical harmonic oscillator approach’

    Article • European Journal of Physics, July 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  45. Approximation for the Rayleigh Resolution of a Circular Aperture

    Article • The Physics Teacher, May 2009, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  46. Optical cooling in Er^3+:KPb_2Cl_5

    Article • Optics Express, March 2009, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  47. Internal ballistics of a pneumatic potato cannon

    Article • European Journal of Physics, March 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  48. Summer Challenges and Musings about Energy

    Article • The Physics Teacher, July 2008, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  49. Author's Response

    Article • The Physics Teacher, October 2007, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  50. Defining Work

    Article • The Physics Teacher, May 2007, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  51. Thermodynamics of a Block Sliding Across a Frictional Surface

    Article • The Physics Teacher, May 2007, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  52. Collision of a ball with a barbell and related impulse problems

    Article • European Journal of Physics, April 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  53. Relativistic Effects on Clocks Aboard GPS Satellites

    Article • The Physics Teacher, October 2006, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  54. Introducing the exponential function

    Article • Physics Education, August 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  55. Energy-based solution for the speed of a ball moving vertically with drag

    Article • European Journal of Physics, July 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  56. Accelerating Around an Unbanked Curve

    Article • The Physics Teacher, February 2006, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  57. Double-Exponential LR Circuit

    Article • The Physics Teacher, November 2005, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  58. A classic chase problem solved from a physics perspective

    Article • European Journal of Physics, August 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  59. Inverse Lawn Sprinkler

    Article • The Physics Teacher, August 2005, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  60. Author's Response

    Article • The Physics Teacher, August 2005, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  61. Radiation thermodynamics with applications to lasing and fluorescent cooling

    Article • American Journal of Physics, April 2005, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  62. Work and energy

    Article • American Journal of Physics, March 2005, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  63. Another comment on ‘Eccentricity as a vector’

    Article • European Journal of Physics, February 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  64. A Primer on Work-Energy Relationships for Introductory Physics

    Article • The Physics Teacher, January 2005, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  65. Response to the Letter to the Editor by Carl E. Mungan

    Article • American Journal of Physics, January 2005, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  66. Reprise of a “Dense and Tense Story”

    Article • The Physics Teacher, May 2004, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  67. Irreversible Adiabatic Compression of an Ideal Gas

    Article • The Physics Teacher, November 2003, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  68. Sliding on the Surface of a Rough Sphere

    Article • The Physics Teacher, September 2003, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  69. Thermodynamics of radiation-balanced lasing

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, May 2003, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  70. The Satellite Derotator

    Article • The Physics Teacher, September 2002, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  71. Acceleration of a pulled spool

    Article • The Physics Teacher, November 2001, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  72. Selecting materials for radiation balanced lasers

    Article • January 2000, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  73. Laser Cooling of Solids

    Article • January 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  74. Observation of laser-induced fluorescent cooling of a solid

    Article • Nature, October 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan

  75. Thermodynamics of Optical Cooling of Bulk Matter

    Article • Wiley

    Professor Carl Edward Mungan