American Association of Physics Teachers

Oregon Section--165^th Meeting

Saturday 9.March.2002

Portland State University--Portland, Oregon

Room: SB 190

9:00am Registration ($5.00). Refreshments courtesy of Lane Community College

Bring a Demo. Do you have a cool table-top demo or physics toy? If so, bring it.

There will be a Vernier Software & Tech. prize for the best demo/physics toy displayed.

9:30am Opening Greeting Erik Bodegom—Portland State University

9:35am Toby Dittrich Portland Community College-- tdittric@pcc.edu

“Cryoconites: A Student Project in Mathematical Modeling” Incorporating student generated mathematical models to investigate cryoconite development.

10:15am Greg Mulder Linn-Benton Community College—mulderg@linnbenton.edu

“Underwater Physics” Bring students underwater for interesting physics and good lab technique”

10:35am Pat Keefe Clatsop Community College--internet:pkeefe@clatsop.cc.or.us

“Making Digital Movies” With the advances in computing speed and digital cameras, making movies for science experiments has become readily available.

11:05am J. Lockhart, P. York  and A. La Rosa—Portland State University—andres@pdx.edu
"Optical Telecommunication: Encoding Audio and Video Signals in a Laser Beam"
Using relatively inexpensive electro-optical components, we will show the principles of how an optical telecommunication system works. We expect to motivate high-school teachers to implement similar experiments in their classroom.

11:40 ANNOUNCEMENTS—Announce your scholarships, job openings, grants, etc… here!

11:45 LUNCH—Fine dining will be available nearby. Approximate cost: $10.00

1:15pm Erik Bodegom Portland State University--Bodegom@pdx.edu

“Portland State University’s Remote Observatory” Presenters: Albert Bae, Martin Cenek, Kathryn Mohr, Dave McClure. PSU has received a grant to build an automated observatory PSU. The twelve-inch reflector will be fitted with a research grade CCD camera, spectrometer, adaptive optics and will be available through the internet.

1:40pm Dean Livelybrooks University of Oregon--dlivelyb@hendrix.uoregon.edu

“Feel a parallel and a series circuit” Using a hand-crank generator it is possible to feel the difference between driving equal power to simple, three-bulb parallel and series
circuits.  Having students predict what each circuit will feel like and why is a good way to test understanding of: series and parallel circuits; Faraday's law applied to generators; and the definition of work as force exerted over distance.

2:10pm Table Sharing--Everyone

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.

2:40 pm Stanley Micklavzina—University of Oregon--stanm@hendrix.uoregon.edu

“Demos for the Classroom, Hallway, or a Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory”

I will present two demonstrations I am developing for a special project. The first demonstration will show the diffraction effects observed in X-Ray crystallography.  The second will focus on
interesting transmission and absorption observations of UV and Infrared light.

3:00pm Stephen Scanell—Gresham High School—sscannel@teleport.com

“IB Physics:  Curriculum, IB Requirements,  Exams, and Experience”
Two years ago, Gresham High School began to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program. I will discuss the curriculum components of IB Physics, the laboratory work (including the required inquiry project), exam preparation and an overview of my experience in teaching this course.

3:20pm Business Meeting

Driving Directions to the Spring 2002 Oregon AAPT Meeting at Portland State University

The meeting will be in the “School of Business Administration (which is also the Graduate School of Education Building). We will be in room SBA190.  The SBA building itself is between SW Broadway and SW 6th Ave, and on SW Harrison across the street from the Smith Center.

Parking is available in Parking Structure #1 on SW Broadway. Parking will cost $3.00 for the day—parking passes can be purchased at the Kiosk on SW 6^th and Harrison.

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