The Fall 2006 Joint Meeting of the
APS and AAPT New England Sections
AAPT Contributed Talks (Parallel Sessions)
Saturday, October 14 |
<Session 1 |
8:40 AM |
"The TOPS program: Encouraging Undergraduates into Pre-college Teaching" Don Donovan (Thayer Academy) |
8:55 AM |
"The Experiments and Learning of Faraday and Piaget" Elizabeth Cavicchi (Dibner Institute for the History of Science & Technology, MIT) |
9:10 AM |
"Beyond Plug-and-Chug: An Interactive Example from Electric Circuits" Jerold Touger (Curry College) |
9:25 AM |
"Astronomy Lesson Plans: A Collaboration for Outreach from Spitzer Space Telescope to Quinsigamond Community College and Beyond" Andria Schwortz (Quinsigamond Community College) |
Session 2 |
8:25 AM |
"Student Interpretations of Integration in P-V Diagrams: Not Just a Physics Problem" John R. Thompson, Brandon R. Bucy & Donald B. Mountcastle (University of Maine) |
8:40 AM |
"Learning Physics with Fun—Simulation-Based Virtual Laboratory Physics of Golf" Yakov Cherner (Advanced Tools for e-Learning, Swampscott, MA) |
8:55 AM |
"Rudolf and Albert, 20 May 1950" Bartley L. Cardon (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) |
9:10 AM |
"Taylor Series Kinematics" Craig W. Looney (Merrimack College)
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9:25 AM |
"Why the Game Clock Only Goes Forward" Douglas B. Sweetser |
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