Materials for Section Representatives of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and other interested AAPT members:

Form to express preferences concerning the national meetings of AAPT (distributed and discussed at the July 23, 2001 Section Officers Exchange at the Rochester National Meeting)

New!!!  On-line version of the National Meeting Preferences survey. We encourage use of this version, brought to courtesy of Dave Renneke of the Illinois section. Here is the link:

http://helios.augustana.edu/isaapt/rep-report/survey.html

If you prefer a PDF or Word version, here they are:    Word Doc       PDF file

Handouts for Recent Talks, and related supplementary material:

• "Modern Electrostatic Apparatus for Demonstrations and the Teaching Laboratory", given in Philadelphia, PA  ( 1/23/2002)  (note - some figures are absent from these files; I hope to have this deficiency corrected by 2/11/2002.)
• Synopsis of presentation (without transparencies)
• Miscellaneous comments concerning electrostatic activities
• Equipment list and equipment notes for Experiment #15 of Physics 221, "Electric Charge and Capacitance"  (PDF)  (WORD)
• Pre-lab problems, page 9 - 12 of Pre-lab #15, "Electric Charge and Capacitance"    (PDF)  (WORD)
• Lab #15, pages 1 - 25, "Electric Charge and Capacitance"    (PDF)  (WORD)

• "Instructional Materials for Using Digital Oscilloscopes in Introductory Physics Labs", given in Rochester, NY ( 7/24/2001) and at Creighton University, Omaha, NE (11/3/2001)
• page 1 & 2 (pdf file)
• writeups for some of the revised experiments are available below.

• "Using Digital Oscilloscopes in Introductory Physics Labs", given in San Diego, CA  ( 1/9/2001)
• page 1 & 2 (pdf file)
• page 3 & 4 (pdf file)

• Lab write-ups for several experiments involving the digital oscilloscope
• Copyright Notice for the following materials:     Word Doc      PDF file
• Appendices for experiments #2R, #6, & #7:    Word Doc       PDF file
• Lab write-up for experiment #2R, "Time-Dependent Electrical Signals" (i.e., intro to scope)   Word Doc   PDF file
• Lab write-up for experiment #6, "Magnetic Induction"    Word Doc    PDF file
• Lab write-up for experiment #7, "Electrical Oscillations"   Word Doc    PDF file

• "Activities for the First Week or Two of an Introductory Algebra-based Physics Laboratory", given in Des Moines, IA, 4/21/01
• Introduction, page 1 & 2 (pdf file)
• "Some Fundamentals of Math and Science", a lab activity from the students' lab manual, pages 1-7 (pdf file)
• Some additional problems for this same lab activity (not currently used), pages 8-10 (pdf file)
• Equipment list for the lab activity listed above (pdf file)

• "Using Digital Oscilloscopes in Introductory Physics Labs", given in San Diego, CA, 1/9/01
• page 1 & 2 (pdf file)
• page 3 & 4 (pdf file)

Archives for Information Announced in Dept. Dispatch:

• Information concerning department license for XWIN32 (4/3/2001)
• The license "key" for XWin32 is available from Erlene Mooney (emooney@iastate.edu) or Frank Peterson. This license is only valid for members of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
• Information concerning a gift of equipment to the department (3/6/2001)

Other links:

• Physics 111 Laboratory home page
• Physics 112 Laboratory home page
• Physics 221 Laboratory home page
• Physics 222 Laboratory home page
• Department of Physics and Astronomy home page
• Directory of Web pages for Physics and Astronomy courses at ISU, and other instructional resources
• Some other Physics Links (assembled by Professor Laurent Hodges)
• Iowa State University home page

Comments or questions concerning this site may be sent to Frank Peterson at fcp@iastate.edu
URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~fcp
Copyright © 2001, F. C. Peterson. All rights reserved.