The Fall 2006 Joint Meeting of the
APS and AAPT New England Sections
AAPT Workshop
"Begin With Special Relativity"
Elisha R. Huggins Dartmouth College
For nearly a century we have lived with an introductory physics
curriculum that divides physics into classical and modern parts, and
teaches only the classical part to the majority of students. The
Physics2000 workshop demonstrates how to easily overcome this divide by
starting with special relativity in the first week, and fitting in 20th
century topics as you go along.
As examples, we will discuss introducing magnetism from Coulomb's law and
the Lorentz contraction, teach the time-energy form of the uncertainty
principle and introduce Fourier Optics using the pulse Fourier Transform
capability of MacScope II.
Free Physics2000 CD, MacScope Instruction manual, and printed texts for
those who attend the workshop.
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