Readers are introduced to the structure of the book, including a discussion of the topics in each chapter, as well as how the book may be integrated in an introductory physics course.
Chapter 2 serves as an introduction to the GlowScript VPython environment. The student is shown how to enter GlowScript via a browser. The student is asked to create simple programs, including ones that print, make shapes, and...
In chapter 3, the student is asked to program the motion of a ball with constant velocity, to plot the position with respect to time of the ball moving with constant velocity, and to simulate the motion of a ball undergoing a...
In chapter 4, students are introduced to the mathematics behind the Euler method, as well as the coding involved. Students are given code and then asked to modify it.
In chapter 5, students are introduced to the kinematic equations describing an object undergoing a constant acceleration. Students are asked to write code simulating the flight of a projectile over level ground and sloping...
In chapter 6, students are introduced to the idea of a central force, the idea of a instantaneous acceleration (as opposed to average acceleration) and using the Euler method to determine the position and velocity of the...
In chapter 7, students are introduced to the concepts of center of mass, the impulse-momentum theorem, and conservation of energy. This is done by considering a binary star system, mass-spring system, and scattering in the...
In chapter 8, students consider again the motion of a comet around the Sun, but now consider torque and angular momentum. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation is introduced, as well as the cross product and how to code it in...
In chapter 9, students are introduced to the concept of Gravitational Assist, which is used to send probes to the outer planets and out of the solar system. Frames of reference are considered, as well as the energy of the probe...
This document provides a conclusion to VPython for Introductory Mechanics by Windsor A. Morgan and Lars Q. English. It includes the book’s bibliography as well as information about the authors.
Inquiry-based undergraduate laboratories provide the opportunity to engage students in a research experience that improves scientific thinking, but such activities can be difficult to develop and implement due to limited time...
Bair, Sarah. Addressing Writing Standards in a Social Studies Context: A Unit Newspaper Project. Journal of the Middle States Council for the Social Studies 1, no. 2 (2005): 19-23. and The article discusses the effects of...
For more information on the published version, visit MAA's (Mathematical Association of America) Website., Bowen, Jennifer, Mark Kozek, Pamela Pierce, and Jennifer Schaefer. Advice for First-Year Seminar Instructors. In...
A soap bubble on the end of a cylindrical tube is seen to deflate as the higher pressure air inside the bubble escapes through a tube. We perform an experiment to measure the radius of the slowly deflating bubble and observe...
Bryant, Sarah N., and Jennifer B. Schaefer. Becoming Successful Proof-Writers Through Peer Review, Journals, and Portfolios. In Beyond Lecture: Resources and Pedagogical Techniques for Enhancing the Teaching of Proof-Writing...
Nanotechnology provides a relevant and exciting theme on which to base a capstone, laboratory experience for advanced, undergraduate chemistry majors. This paper describes a course in which the theme of nanotechnology pulls...
Part of a special issue on social studies currere. Mary Ritter Beard, a well-known figure among women historians, has recently been considered within the context of social studies education. Although she played no direct role...
For more information on the published version, visit Princeton University Press's Website., Ball, David M. Close Reading Comics. In The Pocket Instructor, Literature: 101 Exercises for the College Classroom, edited by Diana...
This chapter discusses how to integrate technology more effectively into the learning and teaching of languages. The results of delivering PI in classrooms, on computers, and in a hybridised environment combining elements of...
This article argues small departments are ideal laboratories for innovative structures of collaboration. Beginning with the smallest nit—an individual teacher “collaborating with herself” to mine good ideas from one course to...
For more information on the published version, visit The Escapist's Website., A student came to my office last week and asked for help setting up a LAN game of Civ IV in one of the college's computer labs. He was going to play...
The volume of which this essay is a part, Teaching Victorian Literature in the 21st Century, is a valuable addition to the literature of teaching at the college and university level. Such a volume is particularly useful in...
Randy Olson’s book, Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style , was used to supplement a senior seminar in nanomaterials. While students learned about the chemistry behind useful properties of...
Wolff, Andrew T. European Security: The Missing Piece of European Studies Curriculum in the United States.Journal of Contemporary European Studies 25, no. 2 (2017): 243-257....
Supplementing the foreign language curriculum with the incorporation of art museum visits has benefits for students, faculty, the campus art gallery, and the institution. Such a collaborative program serves to expand the...
For more information on the published version, Amazon's Website., Explorations in Physics (EiP) is a set of curricular materials developed to help non-science majors acquire an appreciation of science, understand the process of...
Several investigations on the effects of PI on L2 development have examined subjunctive mood verbal morphology. To date, they have all examined what is popularly termed in pedagogical grammars the subjunctive of doubt (Farley...
Samet, Cindy, and Suresh Valiyaveettil. Fruit and Vegetable Peels as Efficient Renewable Adsorbents for Removal of Pollutants from Water: A Research Experience for General Chemistry Students. Journal of Chemical Education 95,...
Games and simulations are an exciting and frequently debated topic among instructional technologists because of their potential to recreate traditional pedagogical concepts in an exciting way. Learner-centered and...
For more information on the published version, visit The Council of Undergraduate Research's Website., Donna Bickford is the Director of the Women's and Gender Resource Center at Dickinson College., In an editorial in the New...
We describe a series of experiments used in a sophomore-level quantum physics course that are designed to provide students with a hands-on introduction to quantum mechanics. By measuring correlations, we demonstrate that a...
Only 28% of the U.S. adult population is considered scientifically literate. Although this is the second highest among 35 developed countries, a fact attributed to postsecondary science requirements, it should not be considered...
Bair, Sarah, Lisa Williams, and Meghan Fralinger. Integrating Women's History into an Early American History Course: Three Lesson Ideas. The Social Studies 99, no. 4 (2008): 174-180....
Bair, Sarah D. Integrating Women’s History in Social Studies: Lessons Learned from a College/School Partnership. Social Studies Research and Practice 3, no. 1 (2008): 80-95. http://www.socstrpr.org/?page_id=636, For more...
Internationalizing the Writing Center provides a rationale, pedagogical plan, and administrative method for developing a multilingual writing center. The book incorporates work from writing center studies as well as second...
Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., The authors of this article examine trends in the economics discipline regarding the classification of some undergraduate economics majors, i.e., econometrics...
Why use computer games in a liberal arts educational context? In general, their educational potential is recognized because there is significant evidence that “learning is most effective when it is active, experiential,...
Howard, Jessica L., and Maiko Arashiro. Make a UNESCO and ACRL Learning Goals Sandwich: Connecting Sustainability Education and Information Literacy Instruction to Solve Global Problems. In The Sustainable Library's Cookbook,...
For more information on the published version, visit MAA's (Mathematical Association of America) Website., I discuss my experience at Dickinson College teaching a first-year seminar investigating the portrayals of...
For more information on the published version, visit MAA's (Mathematical Association of America) Website., The purpose of this volume is to share with undergraduate mathematics faculty ideas for teaching a...
For more information on the published version, visit Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Website., Many computer science programs have capstone experiences or project courses that allow students to integrate knowledge...
The 150th anniversary of the American Civil War has brought renewed interest in the war itself and in how social studies educators teach the Civil War in their U.S. history courses. The authors encourage teachers to use social...
The widespread misperception of plants as passive organisms—providing the backdrop against which the more active members of the animal kingdom play out the drama of life—presents both a challenge and an opportunity for...
For more information on the published version, visit Palgrave Macmillan's Website., Rose, Susan D. Sex, Sin, and Social Policy: Religion and the Politics of Abstinence-Only Programs. In Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law,...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit American Association of Physics Teacher's (AAPT) Website., Browne, Kerry,...
Language development is an interactional rather than unilateral process, that is, language learners participate as agents in the formation of their own linguistic competence, as much as others they interact with. This approach...
Bair, Sarah D. The Struggle for Community and Respectability: Black Women School Founders and the Politics of Character Education in the Early Twentieth Century. Theory and Research in Social Education 37, no. 4 (2009):...
Jackson, David P., Natalie Ferris, Ruthie Strauss, Hongyi Li, and Brett J. Pearson. Subtleties with Young's Double-Slit Experiment: Investigation of Spatial Coherence and Fringe Visibility. American Journal of Physics 86, no....
The spontaneous synchronization of phase-coupled, non-identical oscillators is explored numerically via the famous Kuramoto model. The conditions for synchronization are examined as a function of the coupling network. I argue...
Watkins, Patti Lou, Amy E. Farrell, and Andrea Doyle Hugmeyer. Teaching Fat Studies: From Conception to Reception. Fat Studies 1, no. 2 (2012): 180-194., For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and...
Much of the current research in second language acquisition (SLA) stresses the social aspect of language acquisition. Creating a learner-centered environment that a) fosters collaboration and communication, b) keeps learners...
This book adds a computational dimension to introductory physics mechanics course, and is intended to accompany the textbook and other course materials for that course. It uses the programming language VPython in the...
This book adds a computational dimension to introductory physics mechanics course, and is intended to accompany the textbook and other course materials for that course. It uses the programming language VPython in the...
The Instructor's Manual contains teaching tips, syllabus planning, and lesson organization to assist professors using the book Writing Analytically in...
Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Anthony Underwood is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., The...