TAPT,
Here are some notes from our last meeting.
We agreed to meet on February 6th at J.D.’s house so that we can see Jim Housley. Jim is a friend of TAPT from Alaska, where he is retired from physics teachers, and where he manufactures and develops physics demonstration equipment. Jim is interested in visiting some classrooms, so if you are able to host him during the week, he would appreciate it. You can contact him atjmhousley@aol.com if you have a time that he can visit your classroom. He is especially interested in physics and physical science. I think he will be here for most of the week after February 6th, but am not sure of his travel dates.
The next meeting date after Feb. 6 is TBA – we are working on a speaker for early April.
The Festival of Books is March 12, and on that day all of the physics labs at the University are open to visitors. It’s a good day for your students to see all of the cool stuff going on there.
The Arizona section of the AAPT meets April 16th in Prescott at Embry-Riddle University.
There is a transit of Mercury on May 9 at 6:00am – 11:45. Chris Ubing is making his astronomy students come to see it as part of his final. I think we can go too, or maybe there will be some telescopes available closer to home. It’s a Monday, so I guess it would be a school day.
We will have our end-of-the-year party on May 14th.
I showed some of Derrick Muller’s videos from Veritassium. He was one of the speakers at the recent AAPT meeting in New Orleans.
A website that is useful for contextual problems is: http://groups.physics.umn.edu/
Fritz had been sick and had too much time to read, and he brought way too many books, but here’s a list.
The Evolution of Everything, by Matt Ridley. The title says it all.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Steven Greenblatt. It sounds great.
The Nature of Things, by Lucretius. I think this is an old one.
Wolfram Language, by Stephen Wolfram. It’s a tutorial. Several people tried to steal this at the meeting.
How to Read a Page, by I.A. Richards. Something about 100 important words.
Thing Explainer, by Randall Monroe, author of xkcd and everyone’s favorite, who also explains things in simple words in this book.
Thhe Invention of Science by David Woolton. A history of the scientific revolution.
Fritz’s illness is hard on us all. Way too much to read.
Dave Katz was nice enough to summarize his knowledge of the gem show. I have attached his hints and advice.
Next meeting: February 6th at J.D.’s house, 8:30 am. Hope to see everyone there.
Best,
Karie
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