Dave Kagan introduced the rules & procedure for Share ‘n Tell including the dreaded gong! Bree Barnett Dreyfuss – Amador Valley High School Recently Bree used Energizer AA batteries in a physics lab only to find that several students were being shocked by them. It turns out that the plastic covering on the bottom terminal of the battery was not very well covered and the multi-stranded wire used in the experiment was poking underneath the covering and shorting out the battery. Duracell AA batteries have a better covered bottom terminal. Energizers can be fixed by putting a hole reinforce on…
Month: April 2011
Our spring 2011 Spring Conference has two components:
Highlights:
Friday Evening Social
April 22: San Mateo High School
- Hot Dog Reception
- Tour of new biotech wing
- “My Favorite Movie Clips” presented by Adam Weiner and Paul Robinson
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Saturday Mini-Conference
April 23: Exploratorium, San Francisco
- Show and Tell
- Invited speaker, Adam Weiner: “Don’t Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies”
- Brief business meeting
- “A Physics Teachers’ Guided Tour of the Exploratorium” by Paul Doherty
- Contributed presentations
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