American Association of Physics Teachers
Oregon
Section--167th Meeting
Saturday
8.March.2003
OGI School
of Science & Engineering at OHSU
Main
Meeting Room: Wilson Clark Center
Dining Room
Additional
Mini-Workshops in Room 368 and Room 371
9:00am
Registration ($5.00) Refreshments
courtesy of Vernier Software and Technology
9:30am-10:10am Dick Cooper—Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania dcooper@gettysburg.edu “Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in
Astronomy—The Universe on a Desktop” Computer-based observational
Astronomy for introductory astronomy courses.
10:10am-10:40am Thomas Wieting—Reed College Thomas.Wieting@directory.reed.edu “Source Free Solutions of Maxwell’s
Equations” Using Fourier Transforms, we will show that,
in Rainich's study of pure radiation fields (1925), the regular case is generic
and the singular case exceptional.
10:40am-11:00am Break
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Room 268 |
Dining Room |
Room 271 |
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11:00am-11:45am |
C3P—An all in
one curriculum or curriculum resource for high school physics teachers. Presenter: Stephen Scannel 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 every-thing 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/ |
Roller Coaster Physics
Presenter: Matt StephensHands-on, open-ended roller
coaster physics fun. Learn about this great
curriculum appropriate for middle-school through college. |
CLEA I— The Universe on a
Desktop: Observational Astronomy
Simulations in the Instructional Laboratory Presenter:
Dick Cooper; Gettysburg College, PA
dcooper@gettysburg.edu The Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy (CLEA) project has been creating computer based exercises aimed at the introductory astronomy level. All participants will
receive sample student manuals and a CD containing all the labs. |
Noon-1:15pm—Lunch Enjoy lunch with your physics
colleagues. A catered lunch will be
available for ~$8.00.
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Room 268 |
Dining Room |
Room 271 |
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1:30pm-2:15pm |
VideoPoint
Pat Keefe--Clatsop Community College pkeefe@clatsop.cc.or.us “Making Digital Movies” With
the advances in computing speed and digital cam-eras, making movies for
science experiments has become readily available. |
The Oregon Budget Crisis
Dennis Gilbert—Lane Community College gilbertd@lanecc.edu Over the past two years, we have seen several TYC’s in Oregon abandon their physics programs, classes cut at high schools and tuition going up at the Universities. How is the budget crisis affecting your institution’s instruction of physics? The goal of this workshop is to discuss the situation and write a letter to be presented at the 3:00pm business meeting for possible distribution to our state representatives, school boards and newspapers. |
CLEA II— The Universe on a
Desktop: More CLEA exercises. You need not attend the first CLEA workshop to attend this hour
of CLEA fun. |
2:30pm
Corinne Manogue
and Tevian Dray—Oregon State University
corinne@physics.orst.edu
“Bridging the Gap” Physics teachers have all experienced the problems their students have
applying the math they have learned in mathematics classes to physics
problems. We will discuss details of why this occurs and explicit
strategies to ameliorate the situation.
3:00pm
Business Meeting
Everyone is invited to the Business
Meeting. You are a member of Oregon
AAPT by simply attending a meeting. New
officers will be nominated and elected (you may nominate someone before the
meeting by dropping an e-mail to Walt at hellman@teleport.com). The results of the “Oregon Budget Crisis”
workshop will be also discussed during the Business Meeting.
3:30pm Adjourn
Directions to the
8.March.2003 Meeting at OGI
Get onto HWY 26 either from I-405 or HWY
217. From US-26 West take the NW 185th
exit (exit #64). Turn left (i.e.,
south) and drive about 2 miles to Walker Rd.
Turn right (west) onto Walker Rd.
The entrance to OGI is about 3/4 mile on your left at the top of the
hill.
The meeting takes place at the Wilson Clark
Center (Building 3) just to the right of the flag pole in the Dining
Room. The mini-workshops take place in
the rooms next to the Dining Room (Room
368 and 371)
Future Meetings of Interest:
- PNACP
happens 28&29.March.2003 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
- The Summer National AAPT Meeting happens
in Madison, WI 2-6.August.2003
- The Fall
2003 Oregon AAPT Meeting happens on Saturday 18.Oct.2003 at Vernier Software
and Technology—Come enjoy great physics at Vernier’s headquarters.
Visit www.oraapt.org for past,
present and future Oregon AAPT happenings.