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The gadgets of teaching - hands-on labs
Introducing Phil Boseglav and Frank Benko
Better tools allow you to ask better questions
- A capacitor discharge curve
- reaction-time independent
- visualization of a very special function, exponential
- refined math: piece-wise-continuous fuunctions; compensating for a null offset
- the need for meaningful initial guesses
- A swinging pendulum
- direct visualization of motion, x(t)
- quality of fit to the entire data set
- the need for meaningful initial guesses
- Viscosity, terminal velocity, Reynolds' number, standard drag curve
- leveraging previously learned skills (pinger, x(t), x'(t))
- escalating the conceptual complexity (R, Cd)
- subtleties detected and revealed (wheel friction) - room to play
PHYS 1P93 Lab Manual
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