Sunday, August 11, 2019

Syllabus alternatives

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In the last few years I've tried to reflect more on why  I do certain things and what the students get out of each. Starting my 14th yea...
Friday, August 09, 2019

The evolution of color vision in tetrachromats

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Many of us have a sense of color-mixing among trichromats. There's this classic image of the primary and secondary colors of light achie...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

The Mechanical Universe High School Adaptations

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The original episodes of The Mechanical Universe once streamed from the Annenberg Learner website and were available for purchase there. Th...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Today in "What not to buy"

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This floated through my social media feed today... The comments were appropriately brutal. And it wa...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Adhesion Cohesion Lens-hesion

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The correct reaction here is "I saw that when she posted it" because you subscribed to Physics Girl's YouTube channel ages ag...
Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Breakthrough: The Ideas that Changed the World

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The Next Generation Science Standards place a new importance on engineering. There will be initiatives and ideas for how to engage students ...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

AP Physics C new Manual Part 2

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This is a continuation of the original post discussing the changes/tweaks to the AP Physics C Mechanics curriculum by the College Board. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The Light Playlist of Phyz

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Somewhere in the end-of-the-year rush, I failed to post the ever-important Light Playlist, suitable for background play during light and opt...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The best laid plans

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It's true: I see the world in physics. You might, too. So when I saw a thing at Panera Bread, I spun it into a narrative that's too ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

AP Physics C new manual

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The College Board has redesigned (or tweaked?) the AP Physics C Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism exams for the 2019-2020 school y...