During the Spring and Summer sessions of 2020 and 2021, our students used the circuit kits we sent them to create light sources for use in the optics portion of the course. Various single-colored LEDs and an RGB LED were used with the Fresnel-lens book mark and diffraction grating slides included in their kit to explore ray optics, image formation, color mixing, and interference effects. Christmas lights, Fresnel book marks, magnifying glasses, and reading glasses were could be used in the explorations by those without access to the kits. The use of multi-colored light sources increased the quality of student discussion of the concepts involved.

Using Circuit Kits and LEDs to Teach Optics at Home

In the fall of 2021, the Marquette University Honors Engineering Physics Class worked together with the Wandering Sword Project to measure the center of mass and moment of inertia for a variety of straight and curved swords. and pole-weapons. Results were compared to student work from previous semesters where the same methods were used to analyze other sporting equipment such as golf-clubs, baseball bats, and hurly sticks.

Swords for Science

One challenge when&nbsp;teaching physics to life science students is that they do not see the connections between physics and their other coursework.. Additionally, some teachers of introductory physics believe that PER-based tools such as motion maps and energy graphs are not used&nbsp;aside of physics class and so they focus on&nbsp;algebraic problem-solving algorithms. I have found that including work from recent experimental biology in introductory physics courses can both provide relevance to bio-focused students and show physics faculty colleagues that the multiple representations used by PER informed textbook authors are used actively and effectively in current biological and biomedical contexts. Several examples from applications as diverse as bio-mechanical engineering, ethology, and molecular biology will be discussed to highlight where to look for good examples and how to incorporate such materials in introductory courses.

Mining Biological Research when Developing Curricular Materials for Introductory Physics

(AB) Apparatus @ Home

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(JF) Sports Meets Physics II

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C1.1 Teaching the Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences (IPLS) Course

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Using Circuit Kits and LEDs to Teach Optics at Home

Swords for Science

Mining Biological Research when Developing Curricular Materials for Introductory Physics

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