Impulse Momentum Brain Dump
Curriculum development has moved me in a direction of teaching momentum in following order. First: impulsive forces Investigating impulsive forces–factors that effect peak force and duration. We us...
View ArticleResponding Better to Student Bashing
I have become pretty emotionally sensitive to instructor dialogue that is explicitly geared toward bashing students, whether it be about a specific student or students in general. It sort of feels like...
View ArticleScenes from this week
In 2nd semester physics we started solving circuit problems. Here is one group’s whiteboard. I’ve been leaning toward having students make a new graph and new table for each reduction. In general this...
View ArticleDraft of Projectile Card Sort Task
Putting together a draft for a matching task related to projectile motion. Yah! Click to view slideshow. Revised Prompts : Round 1: Hand out just the motion diagram, description, and list of initial...
View ArticleMomentum Stacked Graphs
For 1D impulse and momentum, we need a more integrated representational set than what Knight’s textbook gives us. They do before and after (sort of vector) diagrams and force vs time graphs for...
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