May
2009 e-Wave
Alabama
Section of AAPT
Some links
shared by other AAPT members. One might
be helpful.
If
any of you teach about flight this might be of interest to you. This is a film
clip from the Austrian archives about the Wright
Brothers demonstrating their plane in
Italy in 1909. What is even more fantastic is there was an on-board camera on the Wright plane and the last
part of this film shows it.
Wilbur Wright is at the controls on both of the flights. It’s a GREAT video considering it’s 100 years old
and the quality/weight of the equipment
of that day. Note the pitch stability and the yaw string on the canard.
http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/322/see-the-film-wilbur_wright_and_his_flying_machine'
A fun game to add for Crayon Physics lovers.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/
A circumhorizontal arc (also popularly called fire rainbow)
is a rare optical phenomenon.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Circumhorizon_Arc_Over_North_Texas.html
From: WC
Maddox Astronomy Lab Administrator, Auburn University
This year is the International Year of Astronomy in memory of 400 years
since Galileo started using a telescope to look at the sky. This week there is
an event called 100 Hours of Astronomy in which observatories around the world
will send astronomical images to the Internet. If you are interested in
astronomy you might want to take time later this week to go to the web sites
below. The 100 Hours of Astronomy stared April 2. The schedule is on the right
side of the first web page. Additional information is below the schedule.
Instead of Around the World in 80 Days you have Around the World in 80
Telescopes. Note that the time is in PST. It will be left as an exercise for
the student to convert this to Auburn time.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/100-hours-of-astronomy
http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/
Slashdot
has an interesting article about superconductivity - it appears that there may
be a superconductor that is both a type 1 and a type 2 superconductor.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/313/1
Want to bring
interest to you electricity unit. This
will get a laugh.
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/circuitsnacks
There is a new Academy of
Science & Technology blog starting up.
One of the first posts is about the impact of the stimulus bill on STEM
education.
http://kimsplayplace.blogspot.com/2009/03/academy-of-science-and-technology-1.html
A parody of "I Will Survive” for physics classes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE
Try using MacScope. Lisha Huggins gives it away
free with the Physics 2000. The total package
cost only $10 and has lots of videos as well. He has the Tacoma Narrows bridge video on the disk
www.physics2000.com/Pages/Downloads.html
A guy designed a boat so it did not make him sea sick.
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/914
Who needs mutants when people will
bio-engineer themselves?
A parody of "I Will Survive” for physics classes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE
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