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Why use energy bar charts?

Jacobs Physics

The usefulness of graphical representations over straight-up equations and calculations for understanding energy concepts has been well established in physics teaching literature for years. I resisted teaching energy bar charts for nearly the first two decades of my career - mainly for point (3) above.

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Top 5: Rebooting the Oral Exam Tops Most-Read List for October 2023

ED Surge

How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist : Since winning the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001, Carl Wieman has devoted the bulk of his energies to trying to improve teaching. Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt? Will the ideas catch on?

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AP Physics 1 and AP Physics C - Mechanics Daily Review: Fundamentals check 9

Jacobs Physics

These fundamentals checks are just as appropriate for AP Physics C (mechanics) as for AP Physics 1. because I'd teach it as just AP Physics 1 until about March. because I'd teach it as just AP Physics 1 until about March. What is the total kinetic energy of the two-cart system? That's totally doable.

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AP Physics C in April - don't worry about math!

Jacobs Physics

I'm working on the final set of test corrections with my Physics C - mechanics independent study student. This student had AP Physics 1 with me two years ago. He is in AP Calculus BC. In the first part of the year, I had him focus on the mathematics that overlay the concepts he learned in Physics 1. How do we know?:

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 23 The Physicalized Laws of Mathematics. 29 Counting the Emes of Mathematics and Physics. 1 | Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. Graphical Key.

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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. Despite this, however, fundamental physics always seemed to resist its advance. The Path to a New Paradigm.

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Fall STEM Activities

STEM Sport

Thermal Energy Insulation Investigation Description: As temperatures drop in the fall, students can design an experiment to test the insulation properties of various materials. Using this data, they can model the rate mathematically, using calculus to find rates of change or predict future leaf drop rates.

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