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There are one or two places available in the summer program described
below. If you wish to apply, reply ASAP to GREENSLADE@KENYON.EDU.
Secondary School Enhancement Program in Physics
at
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio 43022
June 26 to July 21, 2000
This course is designed to give teachers of high school physics
courses additional breadth and depth to assist them with their courses,
and to help upgrade their content. The ten participants will range from
experienced teachers who have come to physics from other fields to
relatively new teachers. The emphasis is on sharing ideas, techniques
and information about classroom and laboratory work. The participants
have the opportunity to extend their own knowledge about physics itself.
A significant set of apparatus will be supplied to the teachers,
including a dual beam triggered oscilloscope, a function generator, a
He-Ne laser, a multimeter and a variable D.C. power supply. They will
build giant air pucks (Hovercraft), apparatus for ultrasonics
experiments, air tracks and other apparatus. The teachers will learn how
to videotape and analyze physical phenomena, and will write laboratory
notes that are applicable to their own teaching situations.
A grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to Kenyon College
has made this program possible. It was given in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992
and 1999.
The equivalent of four semester hours or six quarter hours of
graduate credit will be granted by Kenyon College to those applying for
it. There is no charge for this credit.
Participants will receive a stipend of $1000, plus room and board.
Housing is provided in Kenyon student apartments, which are air
conditioned, and meals will be served at the Kenyon dining halls. It is
assumed that most participants will travel home for the weekends.
Kenyon College is located in Gambier, a village without any traffic
lights, a few stop signs and not many sidewalks. The Kenyon bookshop
serves as the focal point of the campus. Gambier is about an hour’s
drive northeast of Columbus, and is five miles east of Mount Vernon,
which has shopping areas. The recreational facilities of the college are
available to the participants.
The tentative schedule for the 2000 program is:
Mon 6/26 Check in. Class and lab on 1-D kinematics using video systems
Tue 6/27 Class and lab on 2-D kinematics using video and film systems
Wed 6/28 Class on linear dynamics & energy. Air track construction
Thu 6/29 Class and experiments on linear dynamics & energy. Make air
pucks
Fri 6/30 Class and experiment on momentum, center of mass, energy
Mon 7/3 Class and experiment on rotational kinematics and dynamics
Tue 7/4 Class on rotational dynamics. Parade. Make ultrasonic
apparatus
Wed 7/5 Class and experiment on SHM and oscillations. Speed of sound
expt
Thu 7/6 Class and experiment on waves. Ultrasonic interferometers
Fri 7/7 Class on acoustics and music.
Mon 7/10 Classes on electrostatics and electrostatics workshop
Tue 7/11 Class and experiments on direct current experiments
Wed 7/12 Electric fields and electron ballistics. Exponential decay
experiments
Thu 7/13 Class on magnetic fields. Student Confidence Workshop
Fri 7/14 Class on magnetic fields. Charge and mass of the electron
Mon 7/17 Class and experiment with optics. RC decay with oscilloscope
Tue 7/18 Class and experiment with optics
Wed 7/19 Class and experiment on wave optics. Decay of radioactive
silver
Thu 7/20 Class and experiment on the Bohr atom. Holography
Fri 7/21 Class on modern physics and applied optics
The in-class sessions are a mixture of lecture, demonstrations,
problem discussions, question and answer periods and coffee breaks.
There is ample opportunity to discuss the techniques of presenting the
material in the high school classroom, and to investigate the lecture
demonstrations. Single concept films, slides and computer simulations
are used to supplement the live demonstrations. The text is College
Physics by Franklin Miller, and participants are expected to do regular
reading and to work through the assigned problems (no pain, no gain!).
In the first five years of the program the teachers gave numerous
demonstrations that they had developed or liked particularly well, so be
prepared to bring things for an advanced show-and-tell.
The program provides the opportunity to work with the experimental
side of physics. In addition to workshops developed by the American
Association of Physics Teachers, there are several experiments on the
college level that show the phenomena in a sophisticated way. While
these cannot be done in the high schools, seeing how the charge on the
electron, the charge to mass of the electron and Planck’s constant are
measured are basic background experiences for the teacher. Radioactivity
experiments are recorded on video tape for later analysis. We expect
that the teachers will go home with a tape of experimental phenomena
that can be analyzed using the stop-action function of the VCR.
The staff of the program is:
1. Mark A. Carle. (Associate -- fourth week); Physics Teacher,
University School (Cleveland). Physics Teaching Resource Agent (PTRA) of
the American Association of Physics Teachers. Past President of the Ohio
Section of the AAPT. Winner of the Presidential Award for the Teaching
of Science and Mathematics.
2. Judith L. Doyle. (Associate -- third week); Physics Teacher,
Newark High School. PTRA. Winner of the Presidential Award. She has
conducted numerous workshops for primary and secondary school teachers.
3. Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr.. (Director); Professor of Physics,
Kenyon College
4. Richard J. Zitto. (Associate -- first and second weeks); Adjunct
professor at Youngstown State University and former physics teacher at
Boardman High School, Youngstown. PTRA. Past president of the Ohio
Section of the AAPT.
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., Department of Physics, Kenyon College,
Gambier, Ohio 43022; email GREENSLADE@KENYON.EDU