12 episodi
Accelerated Physics Sean Downes
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- Istruzione
This is a podcast about learning and teaching physics, from someone who's been in the trenches for almost two decades. We'll also discuss how to relate the classroom to big ideas in contemporary research: like what circuits have to do with quantum mechanics, how special relativity impacts us - literally every day - and how the Doppler effect can teach us about the earliest moments - and the farthest reaches - of our universe.
Whether you’re a student or an instructor, you’ll find a wealth of ideas both practical and inspirational. Here at the Pasayten Institute, we’re convinced that like photons, perspectives should be exchanged, and often!
Join the discussion! Drop us a line: team@pasayten.org. We can't wait to talk shop with you.
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Physics Friday: g-2, STEAM and Ingenuity on Mars
Some recent physics news! The results from Fermilab's Muon g-2, art and science and the ingenuity's flight delays.
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Teaching Strategies : Good and Bad ways to Grade Exams
Today is more strategy than tactics. The context will be undergraduate education, but a lot can be directly applied to high school physics as well. We’ll also share some practical tips and hard truths, as well as some borderline egregious counterexamples that you’ll want to avoid.
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Learning Strategies : Think like a Physicist with... Benzene?
Learning physics sometimes means learning to think like a physicist. Today we'll discuss what that means - or at least what physicists tend to think that it means, and compare how a simple lesson from integral calculus points to a powerful lesson for modeling electron distributions in quantum mechanics.
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Physics Friday 2: Some physics new from the week that was!
Today: Majorana Fermions. Xenobots and Dark Matter.
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Big Ideas : Spin in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
Today we relate a narrative approach to taking ideas from first year physics to the threshold of quantum mechanics.
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Teaching Strategies : The open-homework quiz
Professor Gramila’s idea was simple. Homework was optional. Each week in recitation, we had a quiz. The quiz was closed book, but open homework. These special open-homework quizzes were designed with these two principles in mind.