jkdeane.bsky.social
Physicist, teacher, union local president, CERN Ambassador, QuarkNet Cosmic Ray fellow, guinea pigs, guitar, travel, history, amateur radio, etc. I want to leave the world a better place than I found it.
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🎢 Brilliant demonstration from @cossettej.bsky.social of the relationship between normal force and friction force on a car.
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I have thought about this since we saw our membership and conference attendance dropping in our region, especially among hs teachers. Fewer physics prog's producing teachers? Less AAPT involvement in college departments? More non-physicists teaching? Pref. for NSTA? High membership cost increases?
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That's one of the reasons I love teaching regular/honors physics in high school using modeling. They learn all about kinematics and the relationship between the graphs of position, velocity, and acceleration, and then get a giant 'aha!' moment or two in calculus.
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I have been out of any active gis/gsa projects for a while. Is ArcGIS just assumed, or what are the choices of mapping software? At one time I used Idrisi, and have toyed with GRASS.
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I agree with your palette.
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I'm trying to decide what Switch game to buy. I have the nostalgia packs with n64, nes, and Gameboy games, but it's time for something modern. Suggestions?
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Probably a good-enough-by-eye bezier from an Apple II or early Mac system.
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I would chastise my students for my previous answer.
It's not x = -t^2, it is x^2 = t
(Not including the translation constants)
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It's not x = -y^2, it is y^2 = x
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Oddly it seems to have fixed itself without intervention. 🤷
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It kind of feels like the old Twitter band is getting back together. I've missed classic-era physics teacher Twitter.
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Ever get partway through a build and think "groups of eight would be fine..."? 😄
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Apparently I am either a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, a planetary scientist, or a plain physicist, depending on my mood on a few questions.
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Sometimes being a student means slogging through the swamp, up to your neck, and you can't see where you are going or how far away it is. If you're the person on high dry ground with a lantern, you can give them the encouragement, direction, and hope they need.
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2. When a student has shown tremendous growth, and even though the grades might not be there yet, you send a message to parents to highlight all the good things you see from the teacher's POV.
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Beautiful reference.
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Ah yes, the limit that is only five times the value where physical distress and cognitive impairment begin.
I am so glad I now teach in a space where I rarely see over 800. It makes an enormous difference.
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A view from the night after the full moon last weekend.
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Is this something found in Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics? Or is there a good source to look at online?