Bulletin of the American Physical Society
85th Annual Meeting of the APS Southeastern Section
Volume 63, Number 19
Thursday–Saturday, November 8–10, 2018; Holiday Inn at World’s Fair Park, Knoxville, Tennessee
Session K03: Physics Education |
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Chair: Payton Nanney, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor |
Saturday, November 10, 2018 11:00AM - 11:12AM |
K03.00001: All about "PICUP": The Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics Larry Engelhardt, Marie Lopez del Puerto, Danny Caballero, Kelly Roos, Bob Hilborn, Norman Chonacky I will talk about exciting opportunities that are available from "PICUP" (the "Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics"). These opportunities include week-long workshops during the summer, single-day workshops at AAPT meetings and at various locations around the country, and editable curricular materials that can be freely downloaded from the PICUP Collection of the ComPADRE Digital Library: www.compadre.org/PICUP. Do you already integrate computation into your courses? If so, you should submit your materials for publication in the PICUP Collection, which gives you the opportunity to both (1) contribute to the broader physics community, and (2) get some peer-reviewed publications in the process! |
Saturday, November 10, 2018 11:12AM - 11:24AM |
K03.00002: Active Learning Using a Two Pass Strategy in a Calculus Based Introductory Physics Course James Gerald For the Fall 2018 semester, we modified our active learning strategy to use a two pass approach over blocks of material. For the first block, simple, formative problems were assigned covering basic kinematics through conservation of energy. Another pass through the same material then used substantively more difficult problems. A second block of material covering momentum, rotation, statics, gravity, and fluid mechanics was treated in a similar manner. The force concept inventory was administered as a pre-test the first day of class and as a post test at the end of the second block. We report here the matched pair normalized gain, effect size, and normalized change for the group. |
Saturday, November 10, 2018 11:24AM - 11:36AM |
K03.00003: Electromagnetic Levitation as a Demonstration and Lab Project Eli T Owens Electromagnetic levitation of small objects provides an ideal medium to illustrate several important physics principles related to electricity, magnetism, and circuits. Additionally, it provides a visually striking demonstration. As a demonstration, electromagnetic levitation is suitable for illustrating a range of topics including Earnshaw's theorem, force balance, electromagnets, circuits, feedback, and Newton's laws for rotation. Electromagnetic levitation also makes a suitable advanced lab or circuits project for undergraduate students. The setup I will be presenting consists of an electromagnet below which a small iron object is suspended. The position of the object is kept stable via a feedback loop consisting of an LED and photodiode pair that monitors the position of the iron object and then adjusts the current through the electromagnet accordingly. A synchronous detection system further provides a high degree of noise immunity, promoting advanced lab skills when used as a student project. |
Saturday, November 10, 2018 11:36AM - 11:48AM |
K03.00004: Hidden Physicist Career Seminars at UTK Annastashia Blesi, Aaron Jones, David Pochik, Katie Sylvester, Peter Tarle, Christine E Nattrass While the unemployment rate among physicists is very low, most people who get physics degrees do not stay in academia as physics researchers. The problem is then to get students up to date career advice which is relevant to their career goals. This may also help with retention in the major, as students then are more likely to know about their options. We've done this through a series of career seminars for our students, called Hidden Physicists lectures, that primarily showcase people with undergraduate degrees in physics and careers outside of academia. In this talk, we will discuss the structure and benefits of the Hidden Physicists program here at the University of Tennessee. |
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