Ali Yazdi's Problems from Industry:

Ali Yazdi discussed the problems he has collected and appealled for help in collecting more. If you have some, please let him know. His collection so far can be found at his website http://admin.jscc.cc.al.us/~ayazdi/nsf/index.htm

Allen Farvin: Teaching Units using a table.
Allen discussed his table and how he used it in his classes. You can obtain this really neat table from his website listed below.

http://www2.pstcc.cc.tn.us/~afarvin/tableofunits3.htm

Imad A. El-Jeaid: The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the concept of Efficiency of Motors/Generator using the Pasco Scientific series, Science Workshop 700 interface. We could not reproduce this lab here because it is copywrited.

Imad not only discussed this lab p24 from the PASCO Physics Lab Manual, but demonstrated it as well. It enables one to obtain the efficiency of a motor by using the voltage, current and position vs time curves which then are used to obtain the power vs time and potential energy vs time curves.

Chad Davies: MPEX Data from Fall 2000 Physics Classes

This was a really interesting discussion of the Maryland Physics Expectations (MPEX) survey . Chad has conducted these surveys in his courses at Gordon College and he shared his data with us. For a more in depth discussion of this survey, log into

http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/expects/ex.htm

For a copy of the survey , go to http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/ripe/perg/expects/mpex.htm

our rehash may be more readable: MPEX Rehash by CACC

Neal Tharp: Aquatics Projects at Gadsden State CC

Neal gave us a talk about the Aquatics program at Gadsden State CC. I attended the Freshwater Shrimp Workshop there March 17, 2001. They are also hosting a FREE 5 day workshop June 11 - 15, 2001 entitled Growing Fish in Recirculating Systems.

Chuen-Chuen Fang: Introducing MBL at Shelton State CC

Chuen- Chuen has recently moved into a new lab she designed herself, and began to use computer based experiments. Sounds like an ideal situation, but she revealed several pitfalls as well as blessings of the change.