List of  Physics Education Papers

1.    M. Sawicki, “Physics Education in Poland”, Announcer, 24, 65 (1994).
       (Invited talk presented at the AAPT Summer Meeting, University of Notre Dame,
       August 8-13, 1994.)

2.    M. Sawicki, “What’s Wrong in the Nine Most Popular Texts”,
       The Physics Teacher, 34 (March), 147-149 (1996).

3.    M. Sawicki, “Using the Solar Eclipse to Estimate Earth’s Distance from the Moon”,
       The Physics Teacher, 34 (April), 232-233 (1996).
       Reprinted in “Annual Editions: Astronomy 99/00, Second Edition” (Dushin/McGraw Hill, Guilford, CT, 1998)

4.    M. Sawicki, “What Vibrates 9 192 631 770 Times in One Second?”,
       The Physics Teacher, 34 (Oct.), 389 (1996).

5.    M. Sawicki, “Seeking “Bad Physics” Examples”,
       The Physics Teacher, 34 (Nov.), 525 (1996).

6.    M. Sawicki, “Two-Year College Faculty Members Are Forgotten by APS”,
       APS News, Vol. 5, No. 10 (Nov.), 4-5 (1996).

7.    M. Sawicki, “Is the Moon Falling Upside Down?”,
      The Physics Teacher, 35 (Sept.), 379-381 (1997).

8.    M. Sawicki, “Myths About Gravity and Tides”,
      The Physics Teacher, 37 (Oct.), 438-441 (1999).

9.    M. Sawicki, “A Note on Quantum Teleportation”,
      The Physics Teacher, 37 (Nov.), 499 (1999).

10.  M. Sawicki and P. Sawicki,  “Supernumerary Rainbows”,
       The Physics Teacher, 38 (Jan.), 19 (2000).

11.  M. Sawicki, “I'd like to say!”,
       Advocate, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Oct.), 12 (2001).

12.  M. Sawicki, “Static Elongation of a Suspended Slinky™”,
      The Physics Teacher, 40 (May), 276-278 (2002).

13.  M. Sawicki, “I'd like to say!”,
       Advocate, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Dec.), 12 (2002).

14.  M. Sawicki, “Somewhere Under the Rainbow”,
       Physics Today, March 2004, page 16.

15.  M. Sawicki, “Tautochrone as a Harmonic Oscillator”,
       The Physics Teacher, 43, (April), 236-238, (2005).

16.  M. Sawicki, “Angular Speed of a Compact Disc”,
       The Physics Teacher, 44, (September), 378-380, (2006).

17.  M. Sawicki, "Words and Warfare Follow Zipf's Law”,
       APS News, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan.), 4 (2007).
 

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