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SM13: "Scratch and Win" Tickets and Team-based Clickers in Introductory Physics
This poster will document an attempt to hybridize the non-physics specific technique of Team-based Learning with the physics-native methods of Peer In...View more
SM13: A New Spinning Coil for Measuring the Earth's Magnetic Field
A common way of measuring Earth's magnetic field in an introductory physics lab is by spinning a coil, and using an oscilloscope to analyze the induce...View more
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Meet Shannon
In high school, physics was the most difficult and rewarding class I took. My teacher, Mr. K., was a natural storyteller: a lesson on kinematics was woven into tales of his past life as a smokejumper. Newton’s laws taught during a discussion of the construction of a huge bridge in town. On the last day of class, Mr. K. rounded us all up and we got on a bus to a nearby amusement park. Timing the ascent of a roller coaster, I suddenly knew: one day I would become a physicist.
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