Posts by: Heather Whitney
In our Analytical Mechanics class, the students did research projects in which they analyzed stories from literature for the physics that might be present. We heard presentations about The Count of Monte Cristo, The Hobbit, The Pit and the Pendulum, and even Jack and the Beanstalk. For extra credit, the students could opt to do [...]
A few updates here:
1. I’ve made available at my resources page a link to a Google Doc –> Form implementation of the CLASS physics survey. This was spurred by an inquiry to my ProfHacker post on the subject.
2. I’ve added to my CV page a timeline CV. [...]
The Fall 2010 semester is over. It’s been a great one. I taught PHYS221 (General Physics I), and PHYS341 (Analytical Mechanics). In this post, I’ll focus on some interesting notes about the former. For PHYS221, I did the CLASS and FCI assessments. Here are the results.
First off, a graph that [...]
The Fall 2010 semester has been very busy here at Wheaton College! There was of course the usual flurry of activity for the opening of the semester. Following that, Wheaton inaugurated its eighth president, Phillip G. Ryken, on September 17. You can catch media from the ceremony
I was startled this semester by the realization that it’s been ten years since I began my studies in physics. Ten years ago this fall, I was sitting in my first college physics class, general physics with Dr. Cross at King College. I was intending on pursuing the college’s 3/2 engineering program, or [...]
The internet briefly lit up last week with the news that Google will no longer be supporting Google Wave. I personally was not really surprised by the news, but still was saddened.
While I was at Cumberland University, my colleagues and I used Google Wave to facilitate some discussions we were [...]
Have you heard about Anthologize, the new WordPress plug-in that is the product of the One Week | One Tool project? It’s getting a lot of notice in the digital humanities circles, but I’ve not seen much from the natural sciences and math (a notable exception is [...]
Yesterday I sat down to work some analytical mechanics problems as a part of my preparation for teaching the course for the first time last fall. I settled into a local Starbucks with supplies not really that different from when I took the course as an undergrad: textbook, legal [...]
Moving to a new town brings lots of errands to run. Today I took care of going to the dentist. Everything went fairly well until the last part of the exam. The dentist and the hygienist fiddled with some kind of equipment that made noises of changing frequency, then they applied [...]
Last week I attended the LivePhoto Workshop, which was held at Vernier Software and Technology just outside of Portland, OR. Sometime between my TAing a general physics lab my first year of graduate school and starting my last faculty position video analysis became popular in general physics [...]
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