MIAAPT FALL 2009 meetingSaturday, October 10, 2009Midland Center for the Arts Alden B. Dow Science Museum
Hosted in Conjunction with the Einstein
exhibit at
the Featured Talk: E.
R. Huggins, Professor
of Physics, Dartmouth On Friday night after dinner Lish Huggins, author of the new Algebra version of Physics 2000 will present a 2 hour workshop on “Starting with Special Relativity”. There is no charge for this but again you will take away lots of goodies. I attended this workshop at the AAPT meeting and was quite impressed On Saturday afternoon we will tour the special Einstein Exhibit at the museum. A conference fee of $15 includes both the MIAAPT meeting and the Einstein Exhibit. We are hoping to work out a credit arrangement for those that attend more than one PTRA workshop this year. Meeting Agenda/Abstracts (pdf)Directions
Meeting AgendaFriday Workshops9:30 – 5:00pm AAPT/PTRA Dark mater & Quantum PhysicsAl Gibson, Rochester Adams HS (retired) fziksman@yahoo.com Nicole Murawski, Royal Oak HS murawskin@royaloakschools.com Laura Ritter lritter2@troy.k12.mi.us The cost for this workshop is $60. As you know, we will provide lots of materials.
6:30 – 9:00pm Relativity First Workshop Saturday Sessions8:00 - 8:30 Registration/Breakfast (lobby of museum)Meeting fee $15 (includes Einstein exhibit) Order box lunch at registration $8.00 8:30 – 8:45 Meeting call to order and opening comments Drew Isola, MIAAPT President Welcome by Debbie Anderson Curator of Education Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art Morning Session I8:45 – 10:45 Oral Presentations (arranged from submitted abstracts)8:45-9:15 Physics Goes Underwater: The Construction of an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle Keith F. Forton, Traverse City Central Senior High 9:15-9:30 Bullion to B-Fields: The Silver Program of the Manhattan Project Cameron Reed, Alma College 9:30-9:45 Update on the National Task Force on Teacher Education in Physics Drew Isola, Allegan High School 9:45-10:00 Meet Me On Facebook: Social Networking For Supplemental Office Hours Philip Edward Kaldon Western Michigan University 10:00-10:15 Converted Shear Waves Kandiah [BALA]Balachandran, Kalamazoo Valley Community College 10:15-10:30 Teasing Apart Voltage and Current David Van Baak, Calvin College 10:30-10:45 The PhysicsBowl – marking its 25th year Michael Faleski, Delta College 10:45 – 11:00 Break
Morning Session II: Invited Talk11:00 – 12:15 Invited Talk: Starting with RelativityElisha Huggins, Dartmouth What laws of physics apply to everything, and have no known exceptions? We can think of two--the principle of relativity and the uncertainty principle. Our goal has been to construct an introductory physics course with emphasis on these two laws. To do this, we begin with the principle of relativity, a law understood by Galileo, and end with the uncertainty principle after focusing on the particle-wave nature of matter. In our talk we will start with the way we handle the time-energy form of the uncertainty principle, and then describe some of the steps we took to get there. The most important step was introducing special relativity in week one. physics 2000 Lunch 12:15 – 1:15 Lunch 1:15 – 1:45 MIAAPT Business Meeting & Elections Drew Isola, MIAAPT President Officer’s Reports 1:45 – 2:00 Share-a-thon Drew Isola, Allegan Highschool Afternoon Session2:00 – 5:00 Tour of Museum – Einstein ExhibitParking available (free) in front of the museum |
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