Conveners
Room 100 (Parallel D/Demo Ready): Parallel 1
- Andres Akamine (Boyd J. Michael, III Technical High)
- Jency Sundararajan (University of Virginia)
Room 100 (Parallel D/Demo Ready): Demo Make-and-take Workshop
- There are no conveners in this block
Room 100 (Parallel D/Demo Ready): Demo Share-a-thon
- Jency Sundararajan (University of Virginia)
- Jason Sterlace (James Madison University)
This overview highlights physics learning modules that AAPT, in collaboration with NASA scientists, have developed with applications pertinent to current astrophysics to excite students about physics learning, and not just heliophysics. Our outreach invites educators on the regional AAPT level to experience how utilize the online, cell-phone, and hands-on tools developed to teach physics using...
This demo and hands-on experience highlights physics learning modules that AAPT, in collaboration with NASA scientists, have developed with applications pertinent to current astrophysics to excite students about physics learning, and not just heliophysics. Our outreach invites educators on the regional AAPT level to experience how utilize the online, cell-phone, and hands-on tools developed to...
CosmicWatch is a compact, low-cost particle detector designed to make cosmic-ray physics accessible for education, outreach, and research. In this talk, I will present the design and capabilities of CosmicWatch detectors, which use scintillation light and silicon photomultipliers to detect atmospheric muons in real time.
Beginning in 2025, the college board made fluids the final topic in the algebra based advanced physics 1 course. The final relationship in this final unit is Torricelli’s law for the velocity of a fluid emerging from a hole in the side of tank. It is, therefore tempting, to design a capstone lab for the course based on Torricelli’s law. It turns out that this lab is fraught with difficulty...
This Make-and-Take workshop will consist of three different take home projects; a simple “Spacephone” which can be used to demonstrate wave characteristics including: wavelength, frequency, period, amplitude, nodes and antinodes, transverse vs longitudinal waves, etc., a total internal reflection poster application that demonstrates road paint that glows when hit by car headlights at night,...
The Tesla coil is arguably one of the most iconic physics demos. They exist in many forms large and small. I will show and tell a collection of coils that we typically use in our physics classrooms, both the classic spark gap Tesla coil (SGTC) and the more modern solid state Tesla coil (SSTC). These include handhelds for vacuum testing & gas discharge, small toys that emit gentle sparks...
Incorporate these demonstrations into your curriculum that will captivate and razzle-dazzle every student. Each demonstration is easy to do with readily available materials and clearly illustrates specific physics phenomena.
