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AIP Victoria Branch Meetings
Meetings are held at 6.30pm on the third Thursday of each month in the Hercus Theatre at the University of Melbourne.
American Association of Physics Teachers
The web site for the American Association of Physics Teachers physics photo competition.
Article on Bouncing Drops from PhysicsWorld
Water droplets make an impact by Vance Bergeron and David Quere: PhysicsWorld 1/5/01. The physics of bouncing water droplets underlies a wide range of industrial applications from crop spraying to ink-jet printing, and continues to fascinate after 200 years of research.
Canadian Association of Physicists
The web site for the Canadian Association of Physicists physics photo competition.
Computer Analysis of Video Captured Motion
Link to LenoxSoftworks who produce the Videopoint
Computer Analysis of Video Captured Motion (Part 2)
David Crocker (Note:Link is to Microsoft Word Document)
Computer Analysis of Video Captured Motion (Related Site)
Link to LenoxSoftworks who produce the Videopoint
Computer Simulation of Electronics Circuits to Aid Understanding
David Crocker (Note:Link is to Acrobat Document)
Connecting research in physics education with teacher education
This website contains many articles on a large range of topics, including Students' Knowledge & Learning, Teachers' Attitudes and Practices, and Planning and Analysis of Teaching Situations. They were produced by the International Commission on Physics Education (ICPE). Articles of particular interest are: a) Students' conceptions and problem solving in mechanics by Lillian McDermott, University of Washington. b) Learning and understanding key concepts of electricity by Reinders Duit, University of Kiel and Christoph von Rhöneck, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg. c) Teaching Introductory Electricity by Dimitris Psillos, University of Thessaloniki. d) Teaching for conceptual change; a review of strategies by Phil Scott, H.M. Asoko, Rosalind Driver, Children's Learning in Science Research Group, University of Leeds. There is also commentary of the first three papers.
CONNECTING RESEARCH IN PHYSICS EDUCATION WITH TEACHER EDUCATION
This website contains many articles on a large range of topics, including Students' Knowledge & Learning, Teachers' Attitudes and Practices and Planning and analysis of Teaching Situations. They were produced by the International Commission on Physics Education (ICPE).
Discovery Centre
The Discovery Center, Bendigo's web site.
Einstein and the Jumbo Jet
David Jamieson's Plenary Address
How can we get more students to study and enjoy physics?
Keith Burrows and Martin Mahy
ICT in Physics Education: Issues and opportunities
Dr Chris Bigum, University of Central Queensland
Measuring Small Time Intervals
Dan O'Keeffe
Model Aerobatics
A promotional video for a model aerobatic competition. There is some surprising manoeuvres.
Pasco
Pasco link for Data Studio data analysis software.
Photo Contest Entries
The current entries for the AIP 2007 Physics Photo Competition can be seen at this blog.
Physics of aerobatics
A US secondary student's project, but quite detailed (a 27 page pdf file). It's accuracy has not been checked and imperial units are used at times, but the report is well expressed.
Practical Investigation
Dan O'Keeffe
Presentation by Prof Tanya Monro
A pdf file of her Powerpoint presentation
Research paper on Bouncing Drops
A paper by Bojan Durickovic and Kathleen Varland (University of Arizona, 2005) titled 'Between bouncing and splashing: Water drops on a solid surface", which describes their experimental set up as well as their results.
STAV conferences
Science Teachers Association of Victoria conferences web page.
Teaching Sound in Context
Ross Phillips (Note:Link is to Microsoft Word Document)
The Bullet Cluster and the Evidence for Dark Matter
This is a link to a very similar presentation on this topic that Dr Andrew Melatos gave as part of the July Lectures in Physics in 2007. The webpage provides a video of his talk divided into five sections. The pdf and 'print' options at the top of the screen don't seem to work.
Tutorials on aerobatic manoeuvres
A website by James Ballard. This page of you-tube tutorials covers beginners, intermediate and advanced categories. It actually uses a model plane, but the voice over is clear and instructive.
Vernier
The Vernier link for Lab Pro 3 data analysis software.
Web Authoring for Physics
Jill Crawford, Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach and Josie Hopkins