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Session J15: History of Physics and Educational Topics

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Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Adrienne Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Grand Hall East D


Sunday, April 1, 2012
1:30PM - 1:42PM

J15.00001: On the Late Invention of the Gyroscope
Kenneth Brecher

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
1:42PM - 1:54PM

J15.00002: Sommerfeld's balancing act with Einstein: The geometry of relativistic velocity space
Felix T. Smith

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
1:54PM - 2:06PM

J15.00003: Francis Perrin's 1939 Analysis of Uranium Criticality
Cameron Reed

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J15.00004: Babson, Bahnson, the DeWitts and the General Relativity Renaissance
Hamilton Carter

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J15.00005: Who was Christine Shack?
Ronald E. Mickens

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J15.00006: Black Holes: are they as real as we think?
John Laubenstein

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
2:42PM - 2:54PM

J15.00007: Online and Blended Climate Change Courses for Secondary School Educators from the American Museum of Natural History
Robert Steiner

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J15.00008: Learning Physics from the Real World by Direct Observation
Saami J. Shaibani

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
3:06PM - 3:18PM

J15.00009: Teaching the Maxwell and Dirac Equations in the Same Algebra
Gene McClellan

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