WAPT 2001 Annual Meeting

UW-Stevens Point

Program Overview

 

Friday October 26

 

            7:30 - 5:00       Registration Table open, located in the east lobby (ground floor) of

the Science Building, near room A-121

            8:30 - 11:30     Workshops W1 and W2, Science Building

1:00 - 1:10       Opening announcements.  Welcome by William Meyer,

Vice Chancellor and Provost of UW-Stevens Point:

Room 120 in the College of Natural Resources (CNR) building

            1:30 - 4:30       Workshops W3 and W4, Science Building

            1:10 - 2:00       Session I Contributed Papers, Room 120 CNR

            2:00 - 3:00       Continuation of Session I Contributed Papers, Room 170 CNR

            3:00 - 3:30       Break.  Refreshments in the west lobby (ground floor) of the

CNR building, near room 170

            3:30 - 4:50       Session II Contributed Papers, Room 170 CNR

            5:30 - 6:30       Social Time, High Court at Sentry World, 601 N. Michigan Ave.,

                                    Stevens Point

            6:30 - 7:30       Banquet, High Court at Sentry World, 601 N. Michigan Ave.,

                                    Stevens Point

            7:30 - 9:00       Presentations of WAPT Awards, followed by guest speaker.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Thomas D. Rossing

 Distinguished Research  Professor

 Northern Illinois University.

"Teaching the Physics of Music"

 

 

Saturday October 27

 

            8:00 - 9:30       Registration Table open, located in the east lobby (ground floor) of

the Science Building, near room A-121

            8:15 - 9:45       Session III Contributed Papers, Room 170 CNR

            8:30 - 11:30     Workshops W5, W6, and C1, Science Building

            9:45 - 10:20     Poster Session and refreshments in the west lobby (ground floor)

of the CNR building, near room 170

            10:20 - 11:45   Session IV Contributed Papers, Room 170 CNR

            12:00               Lunch and Business Meeting, Michele's Restaurant, 513 Division

St., Stevens Point

 

WAPT 2001 Annual Meeting

UW-Stevens Point

Detailed Program

 

Friday Morning October 26

 

            7:30 - 12:00     Registration Table open, located in the east lobby (ground floor) of

the Science Building, near room A-121

 

            8:30 - 11:30     Workshop W1: A Penny For Your Thoughts

                                    Mark Lattery (UW- Oshkosh)

                        Room B-112 Science Building

 

            8:30 - 11:30     Workshop W2: MAKE and TAKE Physics

Jim Weidner, Tim Wright (Stevens Point Area Senior High

School)

                                    Room B-104 Science Building

 

Friday Afternoon October 26

 

12:00 - 5:00     Registration Table open, located in the east lobby (ground floor) of

the Science Building, near room A-121

 

            1:00 - 1:10       Opening announcements.  Welcome by William Meyer, Vice

Chancellor and Provost of UW-Stevens Point: Room 120

in the College of Natural Resources (CNR) building

 

            1:30 - 4:30       Workshop W3: A Physics Teacher's Guide to Curriculum,

Instruction, and Assessment

                                    Joe Zoller (Lincoln High School, Manitowoc WI)

                                    Room B-112 Science Building

 

            1:30 - 4:30       Workshop W4: The Hard Drive: An Experiment for Faraday's Law

                                    Brad Hinaus (UW - Stevens Point)

                                    Room B-104 Science Building

 

            1:10 - 2:00       Session I Contributed Papers, Room 120 CNR

                                    Moderator:  Robert Beeken (UW - Stevens Point)

 

                        1:10     Joseph Obi Otu (UW - Waukesha): Analytic Solution of Maxwell's

Equations in Curved Space-Time

 

1:30     D. Bonifert and L. Nanai (University of Szeged, Hungary):

Hungarian Science (Physics) Education

 

1:40     Arthur Pejsa (Honeywell, retired): Rebirth of Ballistics (A new,

easy but exact system)

 

            2:00 - 3:00       Continuation of Session I Contributed Papers, Room 170 CNR

                                    Moderator:  Kenneth Mendelson (Marquette University)

 

2:00     Kelly T. Zagrzebski (Wisconsin Public Service Corporation):

            "SolarWise for Schools" a WPS Foundation Program

 

2:20     Suzanne Bell (Southern Door High School): Organizing Your

School's Solar Olympic Team:  Teaching Science the Sneaky Way

 

                        2:35     Jim Mallmann (Milwaukee School of Engineering): What is visible

and colorful, but not photographable?

 

2:50     Greg Taft (UW - Stevens Point): Work and Energy of a Bow

 

3:00 - 3:30       Break.  Refreshments in the west lobby (ground floor) of the

CNR building, near room 170

 

            3:30 - 4:50       Session II Contributed Papers, Room 170 CNR

                                    Moderator:  J. Erik Hendrickson (UW-Eau Claire)

 

                        3:30     Kenneth Mendelson (Marquette University): Conversations on

Natural Philosophy by Mrs. Marcet: an early nineteenth

century physics book for young people

 

3:45     Robert C. Elliott (UW - Eau Claire Emeritus/Hobbs Observatory):

                                    Converting a Navy Gun Mount into an Astrometric and

Photometric Telescope

 

4:05     Jim Madsen (UW - River Falls):  Capturing Students and Teachers

with Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos, (So You Want to Go to the

South Pole)

 

4:20     Mick Veum (UW - Stevens Point): Outreach is Easy:  A Simple

Lesson Plan

 

                        4:30     Shelley A. Lee (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction):

PI34 and Physics

 

            5:30 - 6:30       Social Time, High Court at Sentry World, 601 N. Michigan Ave.,

                                    Stevens Point

 

            6:30 - 7:30       Banquet, High Court at Sentry World, 601 N. Michigan Ave.,

                                    Stevens Point

 

            7:30 - 9:00       Presentations of WAPT Awards, followed by our guest speaker.

High Court at Sentry World, 601 N. Michigan Ave.

 

 

                                    Guest Speaker: Dr. Thomas D. Rossing

                                                             Distinguished Research Professor

                                                             Northern Illinois University

 

              "Teaching the Physics of Music"

 

 

Saturday Morning October 27

 

            8:00 - 9:30       Registration Table open, located in the east lobby (ground floor) of

the Science Building, near room A-121

 

8:30 - 11:30     Workshop W5: Astronomical Instruments in the Classroom
                        Daniel Rislove (UW - Stevens Point)

                        Room B-104 Science Building
 

8:30 - 11:30     Workshop W6: Project CLEA Astronomy Exercises
                        Katie Jore (UW - Stevens Point)

                                    Room B-204 Science Building

            8:30 - 11:30     Commercial Workshop C1: Using Interfaces and Sensors to do

Science in the Physics Laboratory

                                    Tom Kuhn (PASCO Midwest Educational Representative)

                                    Room B-112 Science Building

 

            8:15 - 9:45       Session III Contributed Papers, Room 170 CNR

                                    Moderator: Subhash Antani (Edgewood College)

 

8:15     M. Jackson and G. R. Sudhakaran (UW - La Crosse):

Incorporating Undergraduates into Laser Research at the

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

 

8:30     Mike LeDocq and Gubbi Sudhakaran (UW - La Crosse):

            Preparing Elementary Teachers for the 21st Century

 

8:45     Alan Scott (UW - Stout): Sand Diver - A Simple Device for

Teaching about Buoyancy, Torque, and Density

 

8:55     Theo Koupelis (UW - Marathon): Physics and Civic Engagement


9:15     Robert Ragan (UW - La Crosse): Computational Physics with Java

 

9:35     Mark Lattery (UW - Oshkosh):  Thought Experiments in Physics

Education Research and Teaching

 

9:45 - 10:20     Poster Session and refreshments in the west lobby (ground floor)

of the CNR building, near room 170

 

 

Poster Papers:

 

Joshua Adrians (UW - Oshkosh): Student Conceptions of Force

                                    Mark Lattery (UW - Oshkosh): Galileo's Law of Chords

                                                                       

 

            10:20 - 11:45   Session IV Contributed Papers, Room 170 CNR

                                    Moderator: Theo Koupelis (UW - Marathon)

 

10:20   Ryan Jorn and Prof. Bradford Halfpap (Ripon College):

Implementing the Network Percolation Problem on a Personal

Computer

 

10:30   Jennifer White, Ryan Jorn, Brad Halfpap (Ripon College):

                                    A Preliminary Investigation of Rigidity Percolation on Cubic

Lattices

 

10:40   Brad Halfpap and Nick Cargola (Ripon College): Network

Percolation in Dimensions Greater than Three -  Connections

to the Two Dimensional Case

 

10:50   Mary Williams-Norton, Tina Kemp, Matt Nielsen, and

Meghan Thorpe-Kavanaugh (Ripon College):  The Physics FUN

Force: An Outreach Project in Elementary Physics

 

11:00   Christine Litoborski (Ripon College): Summer Research Project: 

The Design of a Single-Use Impact Force Sensor using Rapid

Prototyping

 

11:10   Steven Sahyun (UW - Whitewater): Several Approaches for

Teaching Physics to Students With Visual Disabilities

 

11:25   Robert Greenler (UW - Milwaukee): The NASA Shuttle-Launch,

Dark-Moon-Ray Mystery

 

            12:00               Lunch and Business Meeting, Michele's Restaurant, 513 Division

St., Stevens Point