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My Take on Learning from Laboratory Activities
This week, a lot of folks on twitter were discussing a paper in Physics Today by Natasha Holmes about the shortcomings of laboratory instruction. I’m not going to specifically get into the details of...
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Hi Everyone, This blog can now be accessed at teachbrianteach.com (no need for the extra wordpress part). This also means there should be no ads. The old url should still work, so no need to change...
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Be an Advocate for the Field: I have found it important to think of myself as a front-line representative of the entire field of PER, especially research-based teaching and learning of physics. From...
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Damped Harmonic Oscillator Energy Graphs
So, I got distracted from curriculum development, so here are some graphs I was curious about. They were made on my phone using desmos. Energy vs Time, including total, kinetic, potential, and thermal....
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Second semester physics for us includes topics like waves, optics, electricity and magnetism. With this in mind, I’ve been trying to organize my thinking about how the content is different through a...
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