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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)
9:25 AM "Why the Game Clock Only Goes Forward"
Douglas B. Sweetser

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