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Accelerated Physics

This is a podcast about learning and teaching physics, from someone who"s been in the trenches for almost two decades. We"ll also discuss how to relate the classroom to big ideas in contemporary research: like what circuits have to do with quantum mechanics, how special relativity impacts us - literally every day - and how the Doppler effect can teach us about the earliest moments - and the farthest reaches - of our universe. Whether you’re a student or an instructor, you’ll find a wealth of ideas

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8:07

Physics Friday: g-2, STEAM and Ingenuity on Mars

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/04/16

Physics FridayMuon g-2The experiment webpage, and some extra videos and links to the Seminar can be found here.STEAM > STEM Brandi's @sciartbro instagram accountArts at Cern, and their instagram account.The College of William and Mary's Virtual Mural Conservation Challenge.Toni Feder's piece in Physics TodayThe Martian HelicopterCheck out Nasa's website for All things Ingenuity.Thanks for checking us out!The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose

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11:43

Teaching Strategies : Good and Bad ways to Grade Exams

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/04/13

Lessons Learned in Grading1. Grading in groups builds community.2. Get it done. ASAP. For your own sanity and for closing the feedback loop faster.3. Go birds eye first: student errors typically fall into equivalence classes.Thanks for checking us out!The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers. This podcast aims to serve both students and teachers of physics by injecting ideas, starting

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9:26

Learning Strategies : Think like a Physicist with......

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/04/12

Think like a Physicist?Physicists have their own culture, and part of that culture is a kind of collective, self reflection. One of the most common targets? Creative problem solving.If you want to see a physicist student panic, as them to model the electron configuration of a benzene ring. As undergraduates spend weeks studying the electron configuration of the hydrogen atom in a quantum mechanics course. Weeks. And that’s just ONE atom. How are you going to model an entire, super

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10:38

Physics Friday 2: Some physics new from the week that...

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/04/09

Physics FridayMajorana Particles : The neutrino may well be a Majorana fermion, experiments are currently underway. In condensed matter, many folks are hot on the trail of a quasi Majorana fermion. A recent claimed observation has been retracted. Science is messy. Check out Thomas Lewton's article on the subject.Xenobots : Check out Doug Blackiston’s research website on xenobots, and Philip Ball’s recent piece in Quanta.The Coma Cluster : Bruce McClure has a write up in EarthSky this week

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13:51

Big Ideas : Spin in Classical and Quantum Mechanics

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2021/04/07

Angular Momentum, Magnetic Dipoles and Quantized SpinWe take ideas in first year physics: angular momentum and current loops, and describe to what extent they can model the magnetic dipole moment of elementary particles, and more generally, the idea of quantized spin.Also. Read Nobel laureate Dudley Hershbach's fun account of replicating the Stern-Gerlach experiment.Thanks for checking us out!The Accelerated Physics Podcast is a production of the Pasayten Institute, whose mission is to

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6:03

Teaching Strategies : The open-homework quiz

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/04/06

Incentive homework without having to grade itLast week we discussed using quizzes as a poll for student’s comprehension of the material. This week, we’re turning that idea on its head. Let’s discuss the use of quizzes to motivate students to LEARN the material. Compulsory homework motivates students to only do problems once. And some problems are probably worth doing multiple times.It’s self-defeating all around. So how do you get the notoriously short-time-horizon motivated high school and

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8:19

Learning Strategies : Samir's rule of three : 3 times...

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/04/05

Testing your Deliberate PracticeThe most impactful advice for learning math and science I ever receive came - unsurprisingly - in a physics class. It was an electrodynamics class. It’s heavy subject full of complicated equations, solutions and derivations. Even for an advanced class, the material was so thick and so dense that even the professor felt it necessary to share some studying tips."Do the derivation three times without looking at your notes. When you can accomplish that, you're

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11:32

Physics Friday : Some physics new from the week that...

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/04/02

Physics FridayThe LHCb experiment reports on new tension with the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Check out our write up on this issue. Also check out our rant about why this absolutely is NOT a discovery or sighting of any new particle.The Glashow Resonance is observed by the IceCube Neutrino experiment. We wrote about this last week on our blog, check the links to the relevant info there.Superconducting skyrmions are observed in two-layers of graphene. We also wrote a summary of these

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8:01

Big Ideas : Special Relativity and Proxima Centauri C

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/03/31

Applied Special Relativity Today we explore the classic "Astronaut's Twin" paradox from the time dilation effects of Special Relativity, and comment on how it really makes the prospect of an interstellar civilization impractical. In more practical terms, we apply the same ideas to the effects of cosmogenic muons - those particles raining down upon us from the upper atmosphere.For more on Proxima Centauri C,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_cCheck out our video on Cosmogenic

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8:49

Teaching Strategies : Polling with Quizzes

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/03/30

Polling with QuizzesThe usual grading cycle of weekly homework and exams can delay feedback to the instructor by well over two weeks. Assessing student understanding with low stakes quizzes can both catalyze learning and serve as a classroom poll of understanding.When work is to be shown, usually student mistakes fall into definite patterns. You can quickly sort the quizzes and grade on those equivalence classes. Since they're low stakes anyway, detailed grading rubrics like you'd impose on

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8:32

Learning Strategies: Training the Square Root of 25

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/03/29

Learning as TrainingToday I'll relate one of my first "ah ha!" moments of teaching mathematics, where the prescriptive instincts of a traditional education in math fails students.There’s a strong parallel between athletic training and studying mathematics- or really any kind of technical skill: be it professional cooking or coding. Grinding repetition. Constant drilling. You have to be able to perform the same action, with precision, at a moments notice, which means doing it over and over

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Trailer : Introducing Accelerated Physics

Accelerated Physics ·

2021/03/19

Sean here from the Pasayten Institute. If you haven’t heard us, we’re an organization devoted to development of physics knowledge, for everyone, without barriers. In our new Accelerated Physics podcast, we are aiming specifically to discuss matters of learning and teaching physics.I’ve taught math and physics and facilitated that learning professionally at almost every level: from third grade arithmetic to graduate mathematical methods. The bulk of it, though, has been directed at first

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