Physics education, physics of dance...
Physics
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I am currently teaching the Physics 325/326 Intermediate Mechanics and Relativity course.
Before that I was the lecturer for Physics 102, a non-calculus course covering electricity and magnetism, as well as a small amount of quantum mechanics and special relativity. That course is the second semester in the introductory physics sequence often taken by students in the Life Sciences at UIUC.
I created the original materials for Physics 199HO, the honors seminar that is an optional companion course to Physics 212, in 2001. I had the good fortune to teach the course from the Spring 2001 semester to the Fall 2003 semester. At that time Physics 212 was numbered Physics 112 and I used the working course rubric "Physics 212" for the seminar. Click here for the 199HO in-class exercises from the Spring 2003 semester. (4 MB PDF)
- 1998 Physics Department Convocation speech
The Age of Networks
- Here's something that cuts across disciplinary boundaries: The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections, an initiative at the UIUC Center for Advanced Study. The initiative's steering committee includes faculty from Speech Communication, Library and Information Science, Neuroscience & Psychology, Law, History, and Physics (me!). Included is the weekly graduate seminar CAS 587.
Physics of dance
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The
Physics of Dance: a 1997 presentation to dance classes
at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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The Physics of Dance:
a 2001 Saturday Morning Physics Honors Program presentation at UIUC.
152 kB pdf file.
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Something completely different:
a three-way collaboration of Architecture, Dance, and Physics.
- The Physics of Dance: Kenneth Laws visit to the UIUC campus September, 2002
Pedagogical presentations on relativity and particle physics
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Special Relativity:a
Saturday Morning Physics Honors Program presentation at UIUC; 11/15/03.
697 kB pdf file.
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Special
Relativity in 14 Easy (Hyper)lessons.
- It's Not Like Colliding Watermelons: A High Energy Physics Chalk Talk. UIUC talk to summer (REU) students; July 23, 2003. 2.4 MB pdf.
Teaching teachers
- Web page authorship: an in-service presentation to the Dr. Howard Elementary School faculty technology group (Champaign Unit 4 school district), January, 1997.
Museums
- Van Gogh online museum:
his complete works.
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Krannert museum: excellent art
museum on campus
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San Francisco's Exploratorium Science
Museum
- Aircraft information from the USAF museum
Learning to cook
- You too can learn to make sushi at home in your spare time!