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Author: Lee Trampleasure
Lee Trampleasure has been teaching for 25 years, and teaches Physics and Biology at Menlo-Atherton High School.
Just in case you’ve never seen it, check out his YouTube debut doing the famous Bed of Nails Demo. You can also see his Physics of Baseball spot. Finally, the ultimate Rube Goldberg; if you haven’t seen this famous Honda ad, here is a URL: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php.
>California State University at Fresno http://www.csufresno.edu/ Saturday, April 9, 2005 Don’t miss this talk! Invited Speaker: Michael Nauenberg, UC Santa Cruz Einstein’s quantum theory of radiation revisited In 1916 Einstein published a remarkable paper entitled “On the Quantum Theory of Radiation” [1]-[3] where he derived Planck’s formula for black-body radiation by a new statistical hypothesis for the emmision and absorption of electromagneic radiation based on discrete bundles of energy and momentum which we now call photons. Einstein radiation theory replaced Maxwell’s classical theory by a stochastic process, and in this talk I will show that it also gives the well known quantum…
Northern California/Nevada Section AAPT Friday & Saturday, November 5-6, 2004 Henry M. Gunn High School 780 Arastradero Rd. Palo Alto, CA Local Host: Clarence Bakken email: cbakken2001@yahoo.com PROGRAM Friday Workshop Teachers are welcome to contact our President, Joe Tenn, for a letter of support to assist them obtaining funds and release time to attend this conference. “He’s Losing His Momentum!” (11 am – 5 pm) Andria Erzberger, Mike Ugawa & other PTRA’s Room S10, Gunn High School (see map below) Do your students confuse momentum, force, and energy? Do they understand what “conserved” means? How can you do inexpensive labs…
Throat Singing and You Presented by Damon Jansen Newark Memorial High School Physics & Robotics Teacher dkjansen@yahoo.com 510-818-4396 Short description of sound spectrum analysis. Looking at throat singing. How to throat sing — starting with vowels. Spectrograms of other instruments. How to do spectrum analysis? –if you have probeware, get microphones for it –for Windows machines, Spectrogram works well: Demo Version; Free; limits time of usage Paid version: $25 http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/gram/gramdl.html –Macintosh: Audacity 1.0 (free) and Mac the Scope (free to try; $74 to buy) are both on www.zdnet.com –for more options: go to www.zdnet.com or www.cnet.com and search their “Downloads”…