Report on the AAPT 128th Winter Meeting

 

Miami Beach, FL

 

Dates: January 25-28, 2004.

 

Prepared for: Ontario Association of Physics Teachers (OAPT)

 

Prepared by: Rolly Meisel, Section Representative Disclaimer

 

Location Radisson-Deauville Resort, north Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL

 

The World Year of Physics in 2005 Article from The Physics Teacher? by Chuck Stone

(posted by kind permission of Sina Kniseley, Director of Communications, AAPT)

 

Meeting Reports

 

* Section Officers Exchange

* Section Representatives Meeting

* Council Meeting

 

Session Reports: Notes from sessions attended by the Section Rep

 

* Ceremonial Session

* Interactive Lecture Demos

* High Energy Physics

* Using Technology to Teach Physics

* Sonoluminescence: Star in a Jar

* The Physics of Cats

* New Ideas in High School Physics Teaching

* Women Leaders in Physics

* Listening to the Ocean

* Geometry and Physics of Proteins

* Teaching Biological Physics

* Physics Teaching Around the World

 

Web Site Summary:

 

* Summary of all Sessions with Abstracts

? http://www.aapt.org/scheduler/128th/results.cfm?Cat=Day&Day=Entire&Type=Session

* World Year of Physics http://www.physics2005.org/

* AAPT Grant Program http://www.aapt.org/Grants/grants.cfm

* AAPT Officer Directory http://www.aapt.org/Directory/

* Slowing down light in a Bose-Einstein condensate http://www.physicscentral.com/people/people-02-2.html

* Fermilab High School Cosmic Ray Detection http://www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/ferminews02-02-01/p3.html

* Nebraska Cosmic Ray Observatory Project http://unlhep2.unl.edu/~CROP/CROP2003.htmll

* Caltech CHICOS Cosmic Ray Project http://www.chicos.caltech.edu/

* Oak Ridge National Labs TECOP Cosmic Ray Project http://www.phys.utk.edu/tecop/main.htm

* Albany Quarknet http://www.albany.edu/faculty/jae/quarknet/? http://quarknet.fnal.gov/grid/invest.html

* Interactive Learning Toolkit http://www.deas.harvard.edu/galileo/login/

* Computer software for teaching relativity http://www.opensourcephysics.org/.

* Just in Time Teaching http://webphysics.iupui.edu/jitt/jitt.html? http://www.jitt.org/

Sonoluminescence http://www-phys.llnl.gov/N_Div/sonolum/

* NASA SHARP Program for high school students

http://www.mtsibase.com/sharp

http://www.gravityprobeb.com/

* Ocean sounds? http://www.ridge2000.org/ http://www.noaa.gov/ocean.html

* US/Zambia Teacher Collaboration http://www.jlab.org/~cecire/cosmzambia/cosmzambia.html

* On-line physics problems for teachers and students, graded on-line http://hw.utexas.edu/overview.html

* Hiroshima and Nagasaki for college teachers http://titan.iwu.edu/~physics/Hiroshima.html

* International Young Physicists Tournament http://www.iypt.org/

* The Physics of Cats ?http://www.nhm.org/cats and http://www.lookd.com/cats/anatomy.html

 

Resources for Teaching Physics

 

AAPT Conference Display Area

New Interactive Physics 2004 Demo http://www.interactivephysics.com/

Motion Visualizer 3D http://www.albertiswindow.com/

VideoPoint Capture http://www.isw.com/

Roller Coaster Physics http://www.gdjinc.com/

Educational Innovations (lots of great demos and fun apparatus) http://www.teachersource.com/

NASA Microgravity Demonstrator (plans and activities) https://neeis.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/

 

Pre-Conference Advanced Scuba Course in Key Largo (Underwater photos)