Re: Physics education (fwd)

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:16:02 -0500 Joseph Bellina
<jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU> writes:
> Can anyone help this person...perhaps point here to some downloadable
> material?

Ann....(and others in the same situation)

If you will reimburse me for the postage or FEDeX charges, I'll be happy
to send you
a free Teacher Edition copy of my (235+ pages) Physics Lab manual.
Among other things,  it includes the centripetal force experiments
that you desire as well as all the necessary instructions for setting up
your
lab apparatus ..... and other detailed goodies for most other lab
experiments as well..


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 09:03:54 -0400
> From: Anne Pfannkoch <akp@inr.net>
> Reply-To: chemed-l@atlantis.uwf.edu
> To: Chemistry list <chemed-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
> Subject: Physics education
>
> Our physics teacher left yesterday (we didn't get much notice!) and
> rather suddenly, I am assigned the job of picking up his physics
> classes
> starting Monday. I know many of you teach both chemistry and physics
> and
> I am hoping someone can help me a little.
>
> Now, this is really ok with me that I have his class, since I've
> always
> envied him. He had 4 students, all very bright, all very interested
> in
> physics. Think of all the fun thing one can do with a class that
> size of
> very motivated students! The problem is, of course, that I am new to
> teaching CHEMISTRY and certainly new to teaching physics. I've
> looked in
> the stock room where we keep our books, and I have found plenty of
> physics lab equipment, but nothing that explains how to use them. I
> can
> get things from science supply companies (already had the department
> secretary order some things yesterday) but that doesn't solve my
> immediate problem of this coming week. I'd like to do some
> interesting
> labs to get us off on the right foot. The topic I am to start with
> is
> circular motion. The only piece of equipment I can find that seems
> related to that is a circular turn table -- one of those things you
> see
> in the Flinn catalogue with someone standing on it. How is that used
> to
> teach about circular motion? What sorts of things can I do? The lab
> book
> has not got a lab that uses it. If my predecessor used it, he did it
> all
> out of his head -- there is no documentation whatsoever.
>
> Hopefully this situation will be temporary, and a qualified physics
> teacher will be hired, but I'd appreciate any help any of you can
> give
> me.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Anne Pfannkoch