Curent & Past V.I.P. Newsletters
Spring 2008
Spring meeting information. Fall V.A.S.T involvement summary. Charged Coffee Creamer: Demo. Projectile Motion (Computer Investigation Homework) . Kirchoff’s Lab. Capacitance Lab
Spring 2007
Spring meeting information. Fall V.A.S.T involvement summary. Station education. Physics of Phast:high speed photography videos for classroom use. Fluids Stations. Fluids Unit: Independent Study.Making the Manometer. Web based air track simulations -summary.
Winter 2006
Spring meeting information. Fall V.A.S.T involvement summary. Buoyancy and the Tip of the iceberg activity. "Hooked on Physics" spring activity. "A Conundrum" answer with a demo. Stations approach to teaching freebody diagrams. Cool question and answer section: universal gravity, Net force and Tatooine, Tatoo I, and Tatoo II.
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.)
Winter
2001
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.
Summer
2001
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.
Winter
2001
Winter
2000
Winter
1999
Spring
1998
Summer
1997
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
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.
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.
Winter
1994, Science Day at KD, Physics
Pavillion on Line, Is There a Santa Claus?, Origin of "m," Pressure Demo, Squiggel
Ball Demo.
Fall
1994, Cartoon Physics Laws w/Activitiy,
Digital Timers on a Shoestring Budget, Physics Olympics Results.
Fall
1993, Super Collider in brief,
The minnix & Carpenter Demo Manual, Radon Busters Internet Project.
Summer
1993, Opportunities for Educational
Growth, Blackboard Tricks
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
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