WNYPTA Meeting Minutes & References from 6Dec03 Meeting

The QuickTime streamed digital video vignette (10m15s) of students circle whiteboarding a ball drop and using energy pie charts is at <rtsp://media1.buffalostate.edu/rtop4.mov> , please note how the instructor "seeds" individual groups to take important ideas to the whole group discussion, and how he moves the class towards standardized physics language. You will want cable modem, ISDN or faster to view the video smoothly.

David Henry's Regents' Physics Electrostatics activity word files are all found at <http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/WNYPTA/meetings/2003-04/6Dec03/>

A variant of the sticky tape and electrophorus activities is found online at <http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/SeatExpts/index/>

The applets (Java applications) that simulate the pop-can electroscope and more are found at <http://cpucips.sdsu.edu/cpuindex.htm> although these may become part of a commercial package later and be locked down.

The wonderful textbook we suggest as a reference that looks at sticky tape using calculus and calculates surface charge density, tape polarizability etc is Chabay and Sherwood
<http://he-cda.wiley.com/WileyCDA/HigherEdTitle.rdr?productCd=0471442550>

The best electrostatics make-and-take style labs book is by Robert Morse of the AAPT: <http://www.aapt.org/Store/description.cfm?ID=WSP-01&Category=All&Type=Print%20Products&Level=All&Keywords=morse>

The wall flexing demo article (get the corrected version) is available at:

<http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/pubs/TPT/TPTApr01WallFlex/>

A student-made webpage on the paper match rockets (aka "microrockets") is

<http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/courses/00/spring/sci420/misc/students/logan_jeffrey/index.html>

And Jeff Yap wants all to know that an inexpensive ($15) 4" plasma globe can be had from American Science and Surplus <http://www.sciplus.com/category.cfm?subsection=6&category=69 >

Our next meeting will take place Sat 9am-noon 10Jan04, and the theme will be BioPhysics -- introductory physics with Biological Applications. We will include electrophoresis and EKG demonstrations (anyone who owns a Vernier EKG preamp is requested to bring it to the meeting).

Dan MacIsaac