Spring Meeting April 4 &5, 2008
South Florida Community College, Avon Park FL
Meeting Agenda

Friday, April 4, 2008

5:45 Registration

6:30 Dinner

7:15 Brenda Prenitzer - Electron Microscopy

Saturday, April 5, 2008

8:00 a.m. Registration & Continental breakfast

8:30 Welcome & Panel Discussion - Teaching physics for non-physics majors Panel leader - Dr. Joana Owens

Presentations by Participants

9:20 Frank Lock          Wired Science Physics Video Contest

9:27 John Axe            Special Relativity in High School

9:55 Joe Boyle           Stability and Balance

10:02 Jane Nelson      Attraction of a compass needle to a charged rod

10:14 John Carnahan  Graphical Analysis with MS Excel

10:26 Break

10:41 Theo Koupelis  Civic Engagement in the Physics Classroom

11:15 Karim Diff        From FCI to CSEM to Lawson Test

11:25 Frank Lock       Graphs and Equations

11:36 Karim Diff       Two Year College Committee Initiatives

11:47 Business meeting

12:15 Lunch

1:00 p.m. PSSC Physics - Jim & Jane Nelson