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Program Guide Welcome to Greensboro Welcome to beautiful Greensboro and The Accelerating Universe of Phys- ics Education: the biggest and best AAPT meeting ever. With more than 500 papers and posters and 132 sessions and workshops, you are sure to find quality physics information, custom designed for your every interest. Kick back and im- merse yourself in exciting physics and physics education from NASCAR to the Vatican Observatory, Nanotechnology to the Milky Way, AP Physics to Gradu- ate Research, Art Museums to String Bands—whatever your heart desires. In addition to all of the informative and inspiring presentations, don’t miss any of the special events: cutting-edge exhibits; world-famous plenary speakers; solar viewing; the High School Day and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Day activities; Physics Apparatus, Photo, and Video Contests; High School Share-A-Thon;the uniquely North Carolina “egg”citing Picnic and Phys- ics Demonstration Show; and all of the committee meetings and crackerbarrels. I promise you will have the opportunity to experience Southern hospitality at its finest and learning at its best. Thanks to our wonderful local hosts, Steve Danford (UNCG) and the North Carolina section of AAPT; AAPT Programs and Awards Committees; the paper sorters; the AAPT Executive Board and Central Office staff, and all of the many dedicated people who made this meeting possible. Special thanks to Mary Creason of Duke University, who dreamed of this meeting many years ago but was killed in a traffic accident in May. We are dedicating this meeting to Mary— in her honor in memory—for all the hard work and insight she gave. (See also page 2.) It has been my pleasure to serve as AAPT Program Chair for Seattle and Greensboro, and I’m now pleased to pass the torch to Vice President Alex Dickison, who will serve as Program Chair for Baltimore and Edmonton. Best of luck, Alex. Lila Adair, AAPT President-Elect and Program Chair Piedmont College, Athens, GA 1 In Honor and Memory Dr. Mary Alice Putnam Creason was the inspiration for this meeting— Mary proposed many years ago that an AAPT Summer Meeting be held in North Carolina, and then she worked hard to make it happen. Unfor- tunately Mary and her husband Jim were killed in a car accident May 12, 2007. Mary was known for her dedication to AAPT on both the local and national levels. Bill McNairy, President of the NC section of AAPT, said, “Mary was never as happy and fulfilled as when she attended an AAPT meeting.” Her smile was contagious and yet she never seemed to tire in her efforts to share her love of science teaching in the classroom, at AAPT workshops on forensic science and laboratories, and during PIRA activities at summer meetings. One student said, “She was so nice, supportive and caring; one of the people who really stuck in my mind and who made that my best meeting ever by far.” Mary was a Lecturer and the Director of Introductory Laboratories at Duke University, and had served several years as Secretary/Treasurer of the North Carolina Section of AAPT. In her honor, the local planning team continued diligently with the many plans and arrangements that Mary had started. We are certain they have put together a meeting that would have made Mary proud. Lila Adair, Program Chair, said, “Mary, we will miss you, and all of your friends and colleagues dedicate this program to you. Thank you for all you did to make this the biggest and best AAPT meeting ever.” 2 July 28–Aug. 1, 2007 The Accelerating Universe of Physics Education 2007 AAPT Summer Meeting–Greensboro, NC July 28–August 1, 2007 Joseph F. Koury Center & University of North Carolina (UNCG) Welcome to Greensboro ........... 1 Featuring Dedication to Mary Creason ...... 2 • Plenaries In Gratitude .............................. 4 • Workshops and Exhibits Meeting Information ................. 6 • Invited and Contributed Sessions Contact Information ................. 6 • Award Lectures by Leading Educators About Greensboro .................... 8 • AAPT’s Semiannual Business Meeting Special Events ......................... 10 Exhibitors ............................... 12 Award Winners ....................... 16 Plenary Speakers ..................... 17 Committee Meetings .............. 20 Meeting at a Glance ............... 22 Session Schedule Grids ............ 26 Workshop Abstracts ................ 30 Commercial Workshops .......... 38 SUNDAY Poster Sessions ......... 40 MONDAY Sessions ................. .41 TUESDAY Sessions .................. 69 WEDNESDAY Sessions ............. 84 Index of Advertisers ................ 96 Index of Participants ................ 97 American Association of Physics Teachers Maps .................................... 102 One Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 20740-3845 301-209-3300, fax: 301-209-0845 [email protected], www.aapt.org AAPT Sustaining Members Thank you to local organizing committee Addison Wesley–Pearson Education Mario Belloni, Davidson College, Davidson, NC Alberti’s Window Mary Creason, Duke University, Durham, NC ALTAY Scientific Spa Steve Danford, University of North Carolina–Greensboro Arbor Scientific Jose D’Arruda, University of North Carolina–Pembroke In Gratitude Carolina Biological Supply Co. Ed Hellen, Davidson College, Davidson, NC John Hubisz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Centre Pointe Learning William McNairy, Duke University, Durham, NC Daedalon Corp. Promod Pratap, Davidson College, Davidson, NC Educational Innovations John Wiley & Sons Inc. Johns Hopkins University Thank you to our paper sorters Kinetic Books Lila Adair, Piedmont College, Demorest, GA Klinger Educational Products Corp. Mary Creason, Duke University, Durham, NC Lamda Research Corp. Alex Dickison, Seminole Community College, Sandford, FL Math Machines Wayne Fisher, Myers Park High School, Charlotte, NC PASCO scientific Floyd James, North Carolina A&T State University, Physics2000.com Greensboro, NC Physics Academic Software Rachel Scherr, University of Maryland, College Park Prentice Hall–Pearson Education Spectrum Techniques LLC StratoStar Systems LLC With Appreciation TeachSpin Inc. Tel-Atomic Inc. The AAPT Meetings Committee thanks Shodor Education Turning Technologies LLC Foundation and UNCG Reynolds for their generous contri- Vernier Software butions toward scholarships for local teachers to attend this meeting. WebAssign W.H. Freeman & Company W.W. Norton and Company ZTEK Co. AAPT Executive Board Harvey Leff, President Mary Mogge California State Polytechnic Univ. Vice Chair of Section Representatives Pomona, CA California State Polytechnic Univ. Lila Adair, President-Elect Pomona, CA Piedmont College Gordon Ramsey Demorest, GA Four-Year College Representative Alexander Dickison, Vice President Loyola University Chicago Seminole Community College Frankfort, IL Sanford, FL John Roeder Steven Iona, Secretary High School Representative University of Denver Calhoun School Denver, CO New York, NY Charles E. Robertson, Treasurer Dwain Desbien University of Washington Two-Year College Representative Seattle, WA Estrella Mountain Comm. College Avondale, AZ Ken Heller, Past-President University of Minnesota Karl C. Mamola (ex officio) Minneapolis, MN Editor, The Physics Teacher Alan Gibson John Mallinckrodt (ex officio) Chair of Section Representatives Acting Editor, American Journal of Physics Adams High School Toufic Hakim (ex officio) Rochester, MI AAPT Executive Officer 4 July 28–Aug. 1, 2007 TEACHING RELATIVITY IN WEEK 1 The Physics2000 textbook introduces a way to teach a comfortably paced one-year in- troductory physics course that integrates modern physics. That is done by starting with Special Relativity in week one and then incor- porating 20th century concepts as you go along. For example, after you finish discussing light waves, you go right to photons and the particle- wave nature of matter. To see how this is done, come to the Physics2000 workshop on Tuesday, 1:30 to 3:30. PHYSICS2000 CD PHYSICS 2000 WORKSHOP This $10 CD contains In the workshop we show you how to everything: the com- start with special relativity in the first plete Physics2000 week, and fit 20th century topics in text, 20 movies, as you go along. As examples, we the Calculus2000 discuss introducing magnetism from text, and the Coulomb’s law and the Lorentz con- shareware program traction, and then how to teach the MacScope II. The time-energy form of the uncertainty 2 volume paperback principle using the Fourier analysis version of the text is capability of MacScope II. $25. Hardcover version Free Physics2000 CD and printed texts for $40. those who attend the workshop. www.physics2000.com MACSCOPE II AS AN EASY TO USE, INEXPENSIVE, LAB SCOPE We taped 2 microphones to the ends of a steel pipe, plugged them into the stereo input and used MacScope to measure the time it took the sound pulse to travel down the pipe. We can also see the pulse bouncing back and forth. Total equipment cost, under $100 plus a USB equipped computer. 5 Cyber Cafe The AAPT Cyber Cafe will be available daily for checking Travel Fast and email. Easy with Avis Speaker-Ready Room Avis is proud to offer special rates for the AAPT There will be a speaker-ready room in the McCormick meeting in Greensboro! We want to help you enjoy room where all presentations (invited and contributed) your event more than ever with great rates and time must be taken in advance. saving services. Your special discounts are available Meeting Information on a wide selection of vehicles and are good from The Speaker Ready room will be open during
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