Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2005 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 16–19, 2005; Tampa, FL
Session X8: Demonstrations |
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Sponsoring Units: FEd Chair: Ernie Malamud Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salons I-III |
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
X8.00001: Physics Teacher Demonstrations for the Classroom Invited Speaker: A sharing of physics and physics teaching demonstrations by Lee Murfee, a teacher of students learning physics and mathematics at Berkeley Preparatory School and the United States Military Academy for 21 years, and active member of the Florida Section of American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Presentation is a fast paced array of physics and physics teaching demonstrations. Topics include who and what we teach, a successful science department philosophy, forces, acceleration, impulse, momentum, observations, pendulums, springs, friction, inclined plane, rotational motion, moment of inertia, teaching description of motion with data, equations and graphing, slope, uniform circular motion, derivatives, integrals, PASCO Data Studio sensor applications, students presenting to students, flashboards, sound, pressure, and sensitivity analysis in determining specific heat. Demonstrations apply to high school and college introductory physics teaching; handouts and some door prizes/gifts will be provided. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
X8.00002: The University of Minnesota Physics Force: Large-scale Demonstration Shows in Schools and Public Outreach Invited Speaker: The Physics Force is an outreach program of the University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy, which consists of two teams, each made up of one or two UM professors and three or four high school physical science teachers. Physics Force presents exciting and entertaining programs to K14 students and the general public and the two teams reached approximately 40,000 students in the last year. Physics Force uses large scale demonstrations in their shows, and, in addition, has begun to develop small scale demos and related curriculum materials for teachers to use before and after shows, which are disseminated through their website. The authors are members of the `Next Generation' team, which has an emphasis on schools with large minority populations and geographically isolated school districts, such as those in northern Minnesota. We will present sample demonstrations and discuss our approach to conveying the fun and excitement of physics to a very broad range of ages and audiences. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
X8.00003: Physics and Families: The Open Physics Lab and other experiences Invited Speaker: The Orlando Science Center has constructed a modern, computer assisted laboratory for physics experiments and demonstrations, that is accessible to the general public. It is equipped with a complete line of computerized data acquisition instruments, at the level of a modern university teaching laboratory, including both ``wet'' and ``dry'' lab capabilities. The project was designed to bring the experience of a "day in the laboratory" to the general public, consisting of a wide mix of people groupings, from individuals, to families, to school groups. We will discuss what works and does not work in a public setting, how the public reacts to a facility like this, and extensions to other fields of science. [Preview Abstract] |
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