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Teaching About Energy
(WSP-13)
Energy is a fundamental concept in physics, playing an important role in every aspect of
the world around us. The conversion of energy among its many forms has enabled both
the sustenance of living organisms on Earth and our development of a society based on the
manufacture of products for our own convenience. All of these aspects of energy are treated in
this AAPT/PTRA resource book written by John Roeder, beginning with the relationship between
the force and distance required to pull a roller coaster to the top of its first hill along inclines of
different slope, and ending with energy choices we will need to make for our future. Included are
activities, energy games, and teacher’s notes. (252 pages) ISBN 978-1-931024-09-9 ©2008
Members:
$28
Nonmembers:
$35
Teaching About Impulse and Momentum
(WSP-11)
This AAPT/PTRA resource book written by Bill Franklin features labs and demos physics
teachers can use to give students hands-on opportunities to learn about impulse and momentum.
“Make-and-take activities” include AAPT Apparatus Contest winners “An Air Impulse Rocket,”
“A Fan Driven Sailcart,” “An Elastic/Inelastic Collision Cart,” and others. Among the topics treated
are automobile safety, wing lift, water nozzle reaction, and spacecraft use of gravity “slingshots.”
(112 pages) ISBN 1-931024-06-5 ©2004
Members:
$28
Nonmembers:
$35
Physics Teaching Resource Agents
Physics Teaching Resource Agents (PTRA) Publications
AAPT started the Physics
Teaching Resource Agents
program in 1985—with
support from the NSF and
APS—with the mission of
improving the teaching
and learning of physics
and physical science for all
teachers and students in the
United States. AAPT/PTRA
is the leading in-service
professional development
program. Customized
workshops provide the right
approach by building on
decades of experience and
tapping into a large network
of master teachers who
are continually engaged in
physics studies.
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