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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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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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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

ED Surge

I’ve spent so much energy replaying what happened, trying to process it with friends, ruminating about what I should’ve said or done instead, that you’ll have to ask my classmates how it really went down. Do I have the time and energy right now? At least, I hope I said something like that. Will I lose my job?

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Can we unlock the secrets hidden deep within the nucleus of an atom?

Futurum

Understanding the nucleus and its substructure is at the heart of nuclear physics. Full of exotic-sounding particles, and existing on a scale billions of times smaller than the width of a human hair, the world of nuclear physics can be daunting and bewildering. This is where nuclear physics starts to get more complex.

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