WNYPTA 10Jan04 Minutes and notes

The revised Regents' Physics exam scoring guides for four 2002/3 exams are available at
<www.emsc.nysed.gov/>.  The revised scores are considerably higher than previous (18pts in some cases).  

Jim Guido discussed the state legislature's Physics First discussions; he is seeking input from physics teachers at <jdgiudo@adelphia.net>
as part of the NYSUT response.

Announcements of various summer opportunities for teachers and students followed.  
BSC for physics teachers: <http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/programs/>
Cornell for physics teachers: <http://www.cns.cornell.edu/cipt>
Brookhaven for physics teachers & students: <http://www.bnl.gov/scied/>

Alfred Engineering Challenge for HS students (ends 30June): <http://engineering.alfred.edu/challenge/>

The meeting's first formal presentation was on the Physics of EKG by Erica Wehling; she demonstrated the Vernier EKG amplifier and presented information available from the meeting web artifacts site:
<http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/WNYPTA/meetings/2003-04/10Jan04/>

Prof Joe Zawicki and Kathleen Falconer then presented a series of inertia and rotation demonstrations.  Details are also available at the last WNYPTA meetings site URL above.

The charge ferry demonstration was cut due to time, but information on that activity is available both above and at the site
<http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/SeatExpts/EandM/charshut/index.htm>

Finally, Professor Douglas Easton of BSC Biology presented on the physics of electrophoresis.  His powerpoint slides are also available at the meeting site
Here.