Barclay Towers Resort Hotel, Nov. 3
Keynote Speaker
Cynthia Keppel
Jefferson Lab and Hampton University
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Keynote Speaker
Cynthia Keppel
Jefferson Lab and Hampton University
The local contact person for the Fall 2000 Section Meeting at Tidewater Community College is:
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David Wright Tidewater Community College 1700 College Crescent Virginia Beach, VA 23456 |
E-mail: tcwrigd@tc.cc.va.us Phone: (757) 822-7307 FAX (757) 427-0327 |
The meeting banquet will be held at Barclay Towers Resort Hotel on Friday night, November 3, starting at 7:00pm. Please send reservation requests for the banquet to David Wright no later than Friday, October 27, 2000. The cost will be $22.00 per person. Please indicate your choice of entree from Grilled New York Strip, Grilled Tuna, Chicken Cordon Bleu, or Vegetarian.
Physics Education Research and a New Model Course in Applied Quantum Physics*
Michael C. Wittmann,
University of Maryland,
wittmann@physics.umd.edu
Teaching About Color and Color Vision
Robert Morse,
St. Albans School,
robert_morse@cathedral.org
A Physics Demonstration Session is being organized as part of our contributed papers session on Saturday morning. Please communicate directly with David Wright if you would like to do a demonstration as part of this session. Demo(s) should be approximately 5 minutes in duration, with a 10 minute maximum. In your note to David, please indicate the nature of the demonstration and how much time you need (5 or 10 minutes). Also indicate any equipment needs, if there is something that you might need to have provided.
Lunch will be available at the College (soup, salad, beverage, and sandwich bar) for $7. if you will be partaking of this opportunity to dine collectively with other members, please contact David Wright as he needs to provide an approximate headcount to dining services.
The Saturday session will be held at Tidewater Community College, which is approximately 20 minutes from the hotel. Papers will begin at 8:30am; presentation times will be 20 min. with 5 minutes for questions.
Prizes will be awarded for the best paper representing a significant contribution to the teaching of physics at each of three levels: University and College, Two Year College, and High School.
Welcome (photos: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 )
"Modern Physics and the Mathematical World": A New Course
George DeRise,
Thomas Nelson Community College,
gderise@tncc.cc.va.us (photo)
Pasting Schwarzschild Charts Together
Lincoln E. Bragg, Raytheon Corp. (photo)
Innovative Teaching Practices in the Conceptual Physics "Wonders of Technology"
(slides - 19.2Mb)
(website)
Adam Niculescu,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
vnicule@saturn.vcu.edu (photo)
Obstacles Encountered In Calculating The Stress Tensor Using Thermoelasticity And Photoelasticity
(slides - 1.0Mb)
Deonna Woolard,
Randolph-Macon College,
dwoolard@rmc.edu (photo)
An Application of the Method of Images: Who would have thought it?
(slides - 2.9Mb)
David M. Schaefer,
Towson University,
dschaefer@towson.edu (photo)
| Dazzling Demos | ||
| David Wright | Genecons in Series and Parallel Christmas Lights: Series or Parallel? |
(photo) |
| Robert Morse | Flexible Capacitor | (photo) |
| George Watson | Blacker than Black | Break | (photos: 1 , 2 , 3 ) |
| Bill Warren | Sticking vs. Bouncing | (photo) |
| Bob Williamson | Conductivity of Hot Glass | (photo) |
The Measurement and Analysis of Atmospheric Species in the Hampton
Roads Area for June 2000
Jedidah Isler,
Norfolk State University,
jciham@aol.com (photo)
Active Learning in Physics
Bill Warren,
Lord Fairfax Community College,
lfwarrb@lf.cc.va.us (photo)
Ion Beam Interaction with Matter
Ahmad Halim,
Wilson High School, Portsmouth, VA,
ahmad12@hotmail.com or
halim@jlab.org (photo)
Lunch (photo)
Implementing a Research-Based Curriculum in Microcomputer
Based Laboratories at Norfolk State University
(slides - 17.6Mb)
James Toy,
Norfolk State University,
jltoy@nsu.edu (photo)
Circuits for Everyone: A Problem-Based Learning Approach
(slides - 0.9Mb)
(website)
George Watson,
University of Delaware,
ghw@udel.edu
Agenda submitted by Bill Ingham
Minutes submitted by Bill Warren
"http://www.physics.udel.edu/csaapt/Fall2000/advance.html"
Last updated November 8, 2000.
