Latest Physics education Podcast Episodes

Physics Friday: g-2, STEAM and Ingenuity on Mars

Accelerated Physics - April 16, 2021 20:01 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Physics Friday Muon g-2 The experiment webpage, and some extra videos and links to the Seminar can be found here. STEAM > STEM Brandi's @sciartbro instagram account Arts at Cern, and their instagram account. The College of William and Mary's Virtual Mural Conservation Challenge. Toni...

Teaching Strategies : Good and Bad ways to Grade Exams

Accelerated Physics - April 13, 2021 23:13 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Lessons Learned in Grading 1. Grading in groups builds community. 2. Get it done. ASAP. For your own sanity and for closing the feedback loop faster. 3. Go birds eye first: student errors typically fall into equivalence classes. Thanks for checking us out! The Accelerated Physics Podca...

Learning Strategies : Think like a Physicist with... Benzene?

Accelerated Physics - April 12, 2021 22:46 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Think like a Physicist? Physicists have their own culture, and part of that culture is a kind of collective, self reflection. One of the most common targets? Creative problem solving. If you want to see a physicist student panic, as them to model the electron configuration of a benzene...

Physics Friday 2: Some physics new from the week that was!

Accelerated Physics - April 09, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Physics Friday Majorana Particles : The neutrino may well be a Majorana fermion, experiments are currently underway. In condensed matter, many folks are hot on the trail of a quasi Majorana fermion. A recent claimed observation has been retracted. Science is messy. Check out Thomas Lew...

Big Ideas : Spin in Classical and Quantum Mechanics

Accelerated Physics - April 07, 2021 12:22 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Angular Momentum, Magnetic Dipoles and Quantized Spin We take ideas in first year physics: angular momentum and current loops, and describe to what extent they can model the magnetic dipole moment of elementary particles, and more generally, the idea of quantized spin. Also. Read Nobe...

Teaching Strategies : The open-homework quiz

Accelerated Physics - April 06, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Incentive homework without having to grade it Last week we discussed using quizzes as a poll for student’s comprehension of the material. This week, we’re turning that idea on its head. Let’s discuss the use of quizzes to motivate students to LEARN the material. Compulsory homework moti...

Learning Strategies : Samir's rule of three : 3 times without looking

Accelerated Physics - April 05, 2021 19:52 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Testing your Deliberate Practice The most impactful advice for learning math and science I ever receive came - unsurprisingly - in a physics class. It was an electrodynamics class. It’s heavy subject full of complicated equations, solutions and derivations. Even for an advanced class, t...

Physics Friday : Some physics new from the week that was!

Accelerated Physics - April 02, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Physics Friday The LHCb experiment reports on new tension with the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Check out our write up on this issue. Also check out our rant about why this absolutely is NOT a discovery or sighting of any new particle. The Glashow Resonance is observed by the Ic...

Big Ideas : Special Relativity and Proxima Centauri C

Accelerated Physics - March 31, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Applied Special Relativity Today we explore the classic "Astronaut's Twin" paradox from the time dilation effects of Special Relativity, and comment on how it really makes the prospect of an interstellar civilization impractical. In more practical terms, we apply the same ideas to the ...

Teaching Strategies : Polling with Quizzes

Accelerated Physics - March 30, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Polling with Quizzes The usual grading cycle of weekly homework and exams can delay feedback to the instructor by well over two weeks. Assessing student understanding with low stakes quizzes can both catalyze learning and serve as a classroom poll of understanding. When work is to be ...

Learning Strategies: Training the Square Root of 25

Accelerated Physics - March 29, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Learning as Training Today I'll relate one of my first "ah ha!" moments of teaching mathematics, where the prescriptive instincts of a traditional education in math fails students. There’s a strong parallel between athletic training and studying mathematics- or really any kind of tech...

Trailer : Introducing Accelerated Physics

Accelerated Physics - March 19, 2021 15:52 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Sean here from the Pasayten Institute. If you haven’t heard us, we’re an organization devoted to development of physics knowledge, for everyone, without barriers. In our new Accelerated Physics podcast, we are aiming specifically to discuss matters of learning and teaching physics. I’v...