Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Jul 20th, 2008
I was looking up information about whether there is any pedegogical research that shows “clickers” are better than simple flash cards. I’m young, so when I first started teaching I was hip to all of the fancy technology. However, as I’ve progressed in my teaching, I’ve learned that anything you can do with technology can [...]
Jul 9th, 2008
Last semester I had a student working with me on building a sputter deposition chamber. We spent a lot of time waiting for parts, but we did manage to get some very necessary pieces together. Andy and I designed and fabricated a collar system for supporting the weight of the rather large 6-way cross we [...]
I realize I haven’t written an update on the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in a while. I had mentioned about a month ago that the STM was working; however, Donnie left for Old Dominion University via our 3/2 engineering program and I haven’t yet recruited a student to pick up the pieces. I’m working out [...]
Jul 2nd, 2008
Carlwin has the following question about energy: I dont know if our solution is right, but here’s the problem: Compute for the energy given off by a gas doing 200 J of work and losing 1350 J of its internal energy to the environment Normally, I don’t respond to these types of questions for two [...]
Jul 1st, 2008
It sure didn’t take long for the emails to start pouring in after I made this comment: I also get about 1-2 emails a week from people who have developed a “new paradigm”? in physics or believe their 5 second video of the collapse of the Twin Towers is proof that the US government planted [...]