Monthly Archives: October 2014

Ampère’s law

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

Tomorrow I’m covering we’re working on Ampere’s law in my calc-based general physics course. In preparation I was looking around at different ways to present it, and I realized that I was getting crabby about most of the presentations I … Continue reading →

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Google moderator use in class

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

I’ve talked before about how I like to use Google Moderator to have students crowd-source the questions for me in class. I wanted to get down some notes about the conversation I had with my current class about our current … Continue reading →

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I hate Kirchhoff’s loop law

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

Sorry for the incendiary title, but it does express my feelings pretty well. When analyzing DC circuits, students are often encouraged to use the two Kirchhoff’s laws: [sometimes called the node law] all current flowing into a node must flow … Continue reading →

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String resonance

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Andy Rundquist

My friend Will posted a cool animation today: https://twitter.com/wslaton/status/518492010987024385 It got me thinking about the lab we do with vibrating strings and I learned a couple of cool things. First of all, his animation didn’t seem like what the lab … Continue reading →

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