Bulletin of the American Physical Society
75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of APS
Volume 53, Number 13
Thursday–Saturday, October 30–November 1 2008; Raleigh, North Carolina
Session NA: Physics Education (Joint with NCS-AAPT) |
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Chair: Shawn Weatherford, North Carolina State University Room: Holiday Inn Brownstone Roosevelt |
Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:15AM - 8:35AM |
NA.00001: Innovations in Physics Education at NC State Invited Speaker: NC State has a long history of creating and evaluating instructional innovations in the physics courses it offers. During this talk I will highlight a few of these, describing some of the history of their development as well as the innovations themselves. Several of these began as physics education research efforts and now have successful commercial products associated with them. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:35AM - 8:55AM |
NA.00002: Contemporary Introductory Physics: Matter \& Interactions Invited Speaker: The goal of the contemporary physics enterprise is to explain a broad range of phenomena by using only a very small number of powerful fundamental principles. Matter \& Interactions is a modern, calculus-based introductory physics curriculum for engineering and science students, which places a strong emphasis on making and using physical models, and on starting from fundamentals in analyzing physical systems. Computational modeling is an integral part of the course. An emphasis on microscopic models and on the atomic nature of matter makes possible the unification of topics that are traditionally taught as disconnected, and allows deeper exploration of the predictive power of fundamental principles. A collaborative project involving Purdue, Georgia Tech, and NC State is focused on institutionalizing this reform curriculum in large universities. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:55AM - 9:15AM |
NA.00003: Interactive Computer-based Models and the Internet Invited Speaker: Over the past dozen years Davidson College physics faculty have produced some of the most widely used and most widely distributed interactive computer-based curricular materials for the teaching of introductory and advanced physics. These materials are based on Java applets called Physlets and new Open Source Physics (OSP) programs. This talk outlines the pedagogical and technical features of Physlet- and OSP-based materials that have lead to their success and briefly describes current efforts to create and distribute material using the ComPADRE national digital library. The Open Source Physics collection of source code, programs and curricular materials is freely available at: $<$http://www.compadre.org/osp/$>$. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, November 1, 2008 9:15AM - 9:45AM |
NA.00004: Panel Discussion A panel discussion on physics education with the speakers and led by John Risley, North Carolina State University. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, November 1, 2008 9:45AM - 10:15AM |
NA.00005: Posters |
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