LaTeX Worksheets
Jun 18, 2025
For the past couple years, I have typeset all of my worksheets and other teaching materials in LaTeX. Here is a repository containing all of my worksheets, with a CC0 license.
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Copernicus, Galileo, and the Scientific Method
Mar 08, 2025
I explore some of the historical circumstances of Galileo and the Copernican Revolution in order to nuance how the actual practice of science differs from the Scientific Method as we discuss it in the textbooks, relying heavily on Thomas Kuhn’s fascinating book The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.
(Read more...) Talks & PublicationsExperiences teaching ICP to Multilingual Learners
Apr 13, 2024
After spending a few years teaching multilingual inclusion sections of Integrated Chemistry/Physics, I discuss strategies I use to support students who are learning the English language.
(Read more...) Talks & PublicationsAnalog Telephone Physics
Apr 15, 2023
I discuss the basic analog telephone circuit and some of the old analog switching mechanisms at the telephone office. I also talk about the practice of ‘phone phreaking,’ the precursor to modern computer hacking, in which (mostly) high school and college kids learned how to manipulate the phone system in ways it was never intended to work.
(Read more...) Talks & PublicationsClassroom Timer
Jul 17, 2022
This project exists to serve a very niche problem. In my classroom, students coming from across my rather large school have trouble making it to my room before passing period ends. Therefore, I give them an extra 45 seconds after the bell rings before I count them tardy. I also don’t allow students to pack up prior to three minutes before the end of the period. So, I wanted a script that would sound an alarm bell 45 seconds after the beginning of each period and 3 minutes prior to the end of the period.
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I have been teaching physics at Avon High School since 2013.
This website is a collection of projects—some related to my job and many not. Mostly, this website is just a
place for me to play around with html and other programming languages and trick myself into thinking that I
am being productive by doing so.
This website is built using hugo and a custom-coded theme.
Zachary J. Rohrbach
Physics Teacher
Avon High School
zjrohrbach@avon-schools.org