American Association of Physics Teachers
Oregon
Section--166th Meeting
Saturday
19.October.2002
Willamette
University, Salem Oregon
Room:
Collins 205
9:00am
Registration ($5.00).
Refreshments courtesy of Vernier
Software and Technology.
Bring a Demo. Do you have a cool table-top demo or physics
toy? If so, bring it. There will be a prize for the best
demo/physics toy displayed.
9:30am Pat Keefe—Clatsop Community College pkeefe@clatsop.cc.or.us
“Making Digital Movies” With advances in computing speed and digital cameras, making movies for science experiments has become readily available.
9:50am Walt Hellman—Hillsboro H.S. hellman@teleport.com
“1930's New York
City High School Physics” Developments in 1930's New York City high
school physics curricula were important in the later developments of physics
curricula nationally.
10:15am Ebe Arndt—Hudson’s
Bay H.S., Vancouver, WA Earndt@vansd.org
“Circuits in Your
Home and Environment” I will share a hands-on problem-solving
activity for an introductory physics course. Students design, build and
draw simple series, parallel and compound circuits that they find in their home
and environment.
10:25am David Vernier—Vernier Software and
Technology dvernier@vernier.com
“The Segway Human Transporter”
10:40am BREAK—Chat,
visit, and refresh yourself. There is
even a chance to observe and even briefly ride the Segway Human Transporter!
11:00am Lawrence
Ruby—Art Institute of Portland LarryorJudyRuby@cs.com
“Gravitational
Force Due to a Sphere” Non-calculus physics students are asked to
accept on faith that outside of a solid sphere, the gravitational force is the
same as if all of the mass were contained at a point and if the point of
observation is inside the sphere, then the mass of the sphere at radii greater
than that of the observer, contributes nothing to the force of gravity.
We present a non-calculus calculation which makes the results plausible.
11:20am Grant Garbo, Angie Mitchell, Richard
Watkins—Willamette University rwatkins@willamette.edu "Sonoluminescence
with Noble Gas Mixtures"
Sonoluminescence is a phenomenon where tiny gas bubbles subjected to
intense acoustic fields collapse violently and emit light. We will describe an ongoing undergraduate
research program at Willamette University that is investigating
Sonoluminescence in bubbles containing mixtures of Noble gases.
11:50pm Chuck Heil—Emeritus, Tigard High School cpheil@msn.com
“Things To Do In
Your Copious, Free Time Or: Resources
for High School Physics Teachers” in
which high school physics teachers should expect to receive some
information from an old guy who knows the ropes about the helps and
training often available to them with little more than the flick of a finger.
12:10am ANNOUNCEMENTS—Announce your scholarships, job openings, grants, etc… here!
12:20pm Lunch India Palace will be providing us a special Indian Buffet Feast
for $6.00. There are also alternative eateries
in the nearby.
1:50pm Stephen Scannell—Gresham High School sscannel@teleport.com
“C3P, Comprehensive Conceptual Curriculum for Physics--An
all in one curriculum or curriculum resource for high school physics
teachers.” C3P is a
curriculum project designed to implement research from physics education into
high school physics courses. The curriculum is contained on a CD-ROM and
contains everything from learning objectives, daily lesson plans, assessment
tools, to video clips, MBL activities, and more. Future C3P workshops will be discussed. Visit http://phys.udallas.edu/ to learn
more.
2:00pm Fred
Decker—Emeritus, Oregon State University, Past Chair Oregon AAPT deckerf@ucs.orst.edu “Physics,
The Academic Home for Meteorology”
Classical physics explained
the processes and structure of the atmosphere, enabling the pioneers of modern
meteorology to make sense of weather observations to serve aviation with advice
and forecasts. This paper suggests some uses of atmospheric analogies in the
general physics course and argues for the teaching of meteorology as atmospheric
physics by all departments of physics.
2:20pm Stanley Micklavzina—University
of Oregon stanm@hendrix.uoregon.edu
“Demonstrations for MAX; or The How and What does Synchrotron Light Do?” This
presentation will show the final demonstrations built for displaying the
principles behind X-ray lithography using an UV and IR. light sources and
detectors, spectral absorption and transmission characteristics of materials,
and principles of the electron storage ring using magnetic materials and plasma
tubes. These demonstrations could be easily adapted for instructional use in
many formats and some are basic and inexpensive.
2:30pm Bob Green (Thurston HS), Jeff Garland (S. Eugene HS), Bill Lamb (Oregon Episcopal School) bgreen@sps.lane.edu, garland@4j.lane.edu, lambb@oes.edu
“Quarknet” Lead teachers from the University of Oregon's QuarkNet project
will discuss their
summer at the University of Oregon and FermiLab. We will describe the physics teachers workshop to be held at the
University of Oregon during summer 2003.
2:50pm Table Demonstrations--Do you have a cool table-top
demo or physics toy? If so, bring
it!
Vernier
Software and Technology have kindly donated prizes for the for the best demo/physics toy
displayed.
3:20pm Business
meeting
3:35pm Adjourn
Driving Directions to the meeting:
From I-5 southbound: Exit I-5 on exit 253. Turn
west (right). You will be on Mission St. Follow Mission St. approximately 2.2
miles. Stay in the right lane as you approach the overpass. There will be a sign
which says “Willamette U.” Follow the overpass and head straight. As you cross
12th St., you will see the Willamette University sign on your right and you
will now be on Bellevue St.
The meeting will be in Room 205 Collins Science
Hall, building 12. The parking lot closest to this building is on Winter
Street near building 4.
From I-5 northbound: The directions are
identical to southbound except turn left (west after you exit I-5).
