Curent & Past V.I.P. Newsletters

Winter 2005
World of physics events. Spring meeting information. "What is the Luminousity of the Sun?" -activity. Sub day plans idea. Einstein's nobel prize. General Relativity demo. Einstein -the 2 minute biography. Cofficient of Friction activity.

Spring 2004
ways to use V.I.P. resources. poetry extra credit (Cinquains and Haiku's). Very Cheap Physics: Spinners and a Studium Horn. Spectral Lines and the Discovery of the Composition of the Sun and Stars. VIP mailing list information.

Spiring 2003
Spring 2003 meeting information. As the whirl turns demonstration. Waves on a slinky. Induction braking demo (Lenz's Law.)

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Spring 2002 Meeting information. Results of a survey of physics teachers and class in the commonwealth of Virginia, Ken doll; The Crash Test Dummy, high Speed Photography, Physics warning labels, Metric converions (?) Tennis Ball Cannon demonstration and lab.

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Fall 2001 Meeting Information, High Powered Rocketry Launch 11/03/01, Meeting Information from 2001, First Day of Class Idea, VIP Online, Baseline Math Pre-Test, Measurement Activity, Blackout!, Final Exam: Lab Component, Snell's Law of Refraction Lab, Using the TI-83 Calculator to Find the Equations of a Line, Summo Car Wrestling Contest.

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Click here to see the Newsletter: Summer 1996, Toy Science, Building and Launching a 2-liter Bottle Rocket, What do you do the First Day of Class?, Tid Bits -demos, First Year Physics Experiments-Tracks, Physics on the Ski Slopes, The Indy 500 Dimensional Analysis Worksheet w/Answers

Click here to see the Newsletter: Winter 1996, Monkey and the Hunter Demo Improvement, New Element Discovered -Joke, Constructionthe Blackboard Roller Coaster Simulator, Amusment Park Tip Sheets, Making a Hot Wheels Train, The Loop-The-Loop Lab w/answers, Science Day at Paramount's Kings Dominion.

Click here to see the Newsletter: Winter 1995, Keep Track of Calculators with the Calculator Board, Inventory Your Equipment System, What Can You do with a Balloon?, Science Day at Paramount's Kings Dominion, Relativity Overheads.

Click here to see the Newsletter: Winter 1994, Science Day at KD, Physics Pavillion on Line, Is There a Santa Claus?, Origin of "m," Pressure Demo, Squiggel Ball Demo.

Click here to see the Newsletter: Fall 1994, Cartoon Physics Laws w/Activitiy, Digital Timers on a Shoestring Budget, Physics Olympics Results.

Click here to see the Newsletter: Fall 1993, Super Collider in brief, The minnix & Carpenter Demo Manual, Radon Busters Internet Project.

Click here to see the Newsletter: Summer 1993, Opportunities for Educational Growth, Blackboard Tricks

Click here to see the Newsletter: Spring 1993, Physics Olympics at Kings Dominion, Science Day at Busch Gardens, Opportunities for Educational Growth,Kite Physics, Simple Harmonic Motion and the "Pit and the Pendulum", Battery Powered Gyroscope from Junk, "Seeing the Light" -electrostatics demo,Non-Newtonian Fluids Update