We’re excited to announce that PASCO will host our spring 2009 meeting at their facilities in Roseville, CA. The date of the meeting is Saturday, March 28, 2009. Mark your calendars! In addition to great presentations by PASCO (not strictly focused on their equipment), we’ll also offer our ever popular Show ‘n’ Tell–everyone is invited to bring a five minute presentation of your favorite lab, handout, website, or other teaching resource. More details will be posted here shortly. View Larger Map
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Our Spring 2008 Meeting took place April 18–19 at Heritage High School in Brentwood. Check out the program! The SNAAPT petition (you can download it here) was voted upon by the 50 or so attendees and passed unanimously. We wish them luck! Dean Baird, documentor and presenter extraordinaire, has assembled some cool stuff here. In includes links to: Skepticism in the Classroom (a page of mini-lessons in critical thinking) The Amazing Meeting (hosted by the James Randi Educational Foundation) And photos, of course!
The AAPT Online Career Center is now associated with the AIP, APS, and AVS Career Centers. You can submit a resumé free of charge on our site and your resumé is automatically entered into a searchable database to which employers have easy online access. Visit the AAPT Online Career Center at http://careers.aapt.org/search/. Here is a flyer (400K, pdf) that describes the Career Center. You could give to the administrator at your school who is responsible for hiring new faculty.
>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…