Westen PA AAPT Meeting - April 20

[Sam Lightner <lightner@hoyt.westminster.edu>]

Hi all,

Below is the notice and agenda for the Spring meeting of the Western 
Pennsylvania Section of AAPT, April 20 at the University of Pittsburgh. 
  All are welcome.  

Tom Walkiewicz is currently maintaing a homepage for the section at 
http://www.edinboro.edu/cwis/physics/aapt.html  for anyone interested.

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MEETING NOTICE:  SPRING 1996

The Spring '96 Meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Section of the 
American
Association of Physics Teachers will be held at the University of 
Pittsburgh,
Oakland Campus in Room 104 of Thaw Hall on Saturday, April 20, 
1996.

Registration will be in the Lobby of Thaw Hall.

The best Parking is in the parking garage on O'Hare Street near Thaw 
Hall.
There is a charge for the parking.  There also should be a lot of free on
street parking on Saturday.

We plan to have a display of AAPT resource materials and textbooks 
from
several publishers.  Lunch will be on your own.  There will be a list of 
local
restaurants available at registration.

This looks like a very good meeting with seventeen papers being 
presented.  We
would like to thank everyone who submitted abstracts and will be giving 
a
paper.

                                 MEETING AGENDA

08:00 - 08:45  Registration, Coffee, Doughnuts - First Floor Lobby of 
Thaw Hall

08:45 - 09:00  Opening remarks - Dr. Frank Tabakin, Chairman, 
Department of
               Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

09:00 - 09:10  Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall - Lilian F. Wehner

09:10 - 09:20  Imaginary Trips - Lilian F. Wehner

09:20 - 09:35  Our Fine-Tuned Universe, A new Physics Course for 
Non-Science
               Majors - Bernard L. Cohen, University of Pittsburgh

09:35 - 09:45  New Thought on Old Topics: The Pulley and the String
               Revisited - David L. Wallach, Penn State University, 
McKeesport

09:45 - 10:00  A Fusion and Plasma Chart for Use in Introductory 
Courses -
               G. Samuel Lightner, Westminster College
               Robert Reiland, Shady Side Academy
               T. P. Zaleskiewicz, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

10:00 - 10:10  Looking for the Meissner Effect in an RLC Resonant 
Circuit -
               Daniel G. Tonn and James D. White, Waldwin-Wallace 
College

10:10 - 10:20  Resonance of a Wine Glass - David Revta and James D. 
White,
               Baldwin-Wallace College

10:20 - 10:30  Using Video to Study Circular Motion, Mario C. Diaz 
and
               Brian J. Marshall, Mercyhurst College

10:30 - 10:45  BREAK

10:45 - 10:55  P^3 Problem-posing with ProSolv Software - Joseph F.
               McLaughlin, Brentwood HS

10:55 - 11:05  Properties of Light - Jessica Rupnik, Bethlehem-Center 
HS

11:05 - 11:15  The Application of Computer Spreadsheets to Labs 
Performed in
               the Physics Classroom - Katherine Meyers, 
Bethlehem-Center HS

11:15 - 11:25  Determining the Fastest Sled - Rhiannon Hess, 
Bethlehem-
               Center HS

11:25 - 11:35  Grades of Gasoline - Beth Ann Boyza, 
Bethlehem-Center HS

11:35 - 11:50  Phonons in AlAs: Lattice Dynamics, Debye Temperature 
and
               Density of States - Anthony D'Avanti and Devki Talwar,
               Indiana University of PA

11:50 - 12:05  Scattered Light from Small Particles - Hashim Yousif,
               University of Pittsburgh - Bradford

12:05 - 12:15  Challenging Students Outside the Classroom: An Action 
Research
               Case Study - Karim Hossain, Edinboro University of PA

12:15 - 12:25  Using Rutherford Back Scattering to Determine Heavy 
Surface
               Impurities on Silicon - Chad Wilcox and G. Matous, Indiana
               University of PA


 1:30 -  2:00  Business Meeting and distribution of sample texts from
               publishers

 2:00 -  3:30  WORKSHOP - H. L. Retcofsky, Pittsburgh Conference 
on Analytical
               Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, 1155 Locust Ave.,
               Pittsburgh, PA 15236

This meeting sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, Department of
               Physics and Astronomy



                                FUTURE MEETINGS
                         Western PA Section of the AAPT

Fall 1996 - at University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg Campus in 
Greensburg, PA;
               will be hosted by Ted Zaleskiewicz

Spring 1997 - at Grove City College, Grove City, PA;
               will be hosted by Jim Downey

Fall 1997 - at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA

Spring 1998 - at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA;
               will be hosted by Sam Lightner

Bill Sheers of Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA 
has indicated
a desire to host the Fall 1998 meeting


Direct questions to:    James W. Maloy, Secretary/Treasurer
                        Western PA Section AAPT
                        Physics Laboratory
                        Bethlehem-Center High School
                        179 Crawford Road
                        Fredericktown, PA 15333
                        Phone: (412) 267-4944 (11:15 to 12:00; 2:30 to 3:00)
                        Fax: (412) 267-4907

              or to:    walkiewicz@edinboro.edu

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Sam Lightner		lightner@westminster.edu
Physics Department		voice:  (412) 946-7204
Westminster College		Fax:    (412) 946-7146
New Wilmington, PA 16172