!!! Call
for Papers !!!
6th Annual Fall Meeting
Carteret Community College
Morehead City, NC 2
October 12-13, 2001
Deadline: October 5, 2001
Highlights
Bob Friedhoffer, City University of New York – CASE, (212)794-9654,
scienctrix@aol.com, will speak
on “The Science of Magic and Magic in the Science Classroom” Friday
evening at 7:30. Bob’s approach
is to perform a trick, request an explanation from the audience, and
then reveal his secret. The
secret always involves a scientific principle, so that the audience
learns some science in an unconventional format.
He is the author of several award-winning books on the topic.
Check out his Web site at http://hometown.aol.com/scienctrix/page4.html
There will be a social hour following Bob Friedhoffer's presentation with ice cream and fixings. The Two-Year College group will meet shortly after.
On Saturday morning at 10:00 Jackie Krim of North Carolina State University’s Physics Department will speak on “Physics and Friction”. See the cover story “Friction at the Atomic Scale” by Jacqueline Krim in Scientific American 275 (4) 74-80 (October 1996.) Much of what you think that you know about friction may be in jeopardy!
Bob Tyndall will present the latest version of the Texas PEPTYC program. A new cycle will start this summer and applications are being sought.
Chuck Stone worked with three students this past summer (Sam Hendrix and Alexandria Caesar from Forsyth Tech, and Kelly Nicely from Carteret Community College) to develop project ideas that explored the scientific and cultural aspects of the bicycle. Sam and Kelly will present their Bicycle Projects. Sam went to Germany and did a project on mountain bike suspension systems, while Kelly went to Greece and did a project on energy and the bicycle.
The president of the national AAPT will also be in attendance and willing to answer questions.
Send your papers in soon so we can get things together for the program. Encourage your students to attend and present a paper to both gain experience and perhaps win a prize.
Abstracts
Deadline: October 5, 2001
Format:
1.
Title
2.
Presenter(s)
3.
Affiliation
4.
Address
5.
Phone
& FAX Numbers
6.
e-mail
address
7.
Short
description of paper
Papers are typically 15 minutes. List any special equipment that you may need. Overhead projectors will be available. Send abstracts to Hubisz@unity.ncsu.edu using
Word or as a text file. You
will immediately be notified if there is a problem.
U.S. Mail is certainly acceptable, but the secretary needs time
to get the program put together.
Workshops
So far we have the
CLEA
workshop scheduled to be presented by
Directions
Directions to get to CCC for the NCS-AAPT meeting Oct12 -13, 2001:
From Raleigh, Goldsboro, Kinston: Take 70E all the way into town and the college is to your right, directly across from Carteret General Hospital.
From the western part of the State: Take I40 east and then 24E through Jacksonville and Swansboro into Morehead City. Make a right on to 70E and look for the college campus across from the Carteret General Hospital.
Accommodations
Econolodge at 3410 Bridges St (252-247-2940) will have 25 rooms for Oct 12 and 13 at $59.00 plus tax per night. When reserving the room identify yourself as attending the NCS-AAPT meeting at CCC.
Comfort Inn, 3100 Arendell St (252-247-3434), will have 30 rooms for Oct 12 and 13 for $64.00 plus tax. When reserving the room identify yourself as attending the NCS-AAPT meeting at CCC.
Days Inn is at 602 West Fort Macon Road in Atlantic Beach (252-247-6400) will have 30 rooms for Oct 12 and 13 for $74.95. When reserving the room identify yourself as attending the NCS-AAPT meeting at CCC.
All three hotels will release these rooms on Oct 1, so rates quoted are guaranteed until Sept 30, 2001. Econolodge is within walking distance, across from the campus and one street away. Comfort Inn is about 3/4 mile east of the campus on the same street. Days Inn is in Atlantic Beach and some of the rooms may face the water (not the ocean side but the Sound side).
Your Mailing Label
If your mailing label is dated "2002" or greater
then your dues are paid at least until April 30, 2002, and you are in
our good graces. If not, please
send a cheque for $5.00 per year to bring your membership up-to-date
and help ensure the viability of the Section.
(I note that some regular attendees are a couple of years behind.)
If you did not receive an e-mail notice about this meeting
then I do not have a valid e-mail address for you. Please send me one
as soon as possible! hubisz@unity.ncsu.edu
Awards
There
is a $100 prize for the best undergraduate student paper, a $100
prize for the best graduate student paper, and a prize of
$150 towards expenses to present a similar paper at a national meeting
suitably noting the support of the NCS-AAPT for the best pedagogical
paper. Please keep notes and make recommendations
to any section officer to aid in their choice. Hugh Haskell is chairman of the Awards
Committee. A new award designed
to recognize superior undergraduate students has been established that
carries with it an award of $100. There
is also the Walter C. Connolly Award ("An award to recognize
outstanding pre-college teachers in the Section.")
We thank our sponsors for contributing to support these awards.
Tidbits
The North Carolina Health Physics folks would like to have a joint meeting with us. Their meetings are in Wilmington in the Spring and Asheville in the Fall. They usually meet in a hotel. All comments about arranging such a meeting, please contact me as soon as possible. It should be on the agenda at Carteret.
The Southern Atlantic Coast Section of the AAPT meets
at Coastal Georgia Community College in Brunswick, GA, on October 12-13,
2001. For other information
contact maasha@bc9000.bc.peachnet.edu
or try http://astro.physics.sc.edu/SACS/home.html
It is regrettable that SACS chose the same weekend, but we can expect
an occasional conflict.
Nominations
Nominations for the positions of the High School Representative
and Vice-President are being sought for the election at the Spring 2002
Meeting.
Pre-Registration
Pre-registration (Fill in the form included with this mailing!
Or download the form PreRegistration) is always important for our hosts.
We prefer to know early roughly how many will be in attendance. Even
if you do not take advantage of early registration please send a note
to the secretary-treasurer
that you intend to be at the meeting. Registration costs at the meeting
will be higher! Deadline
is October 5, 2001.
Sponsors
There is no charge for space at the meeting. We do accept donations towards refreshments
and door prizes. If you do not
intend to send a representative, we are willing to display your materials. Please note that your sponsorship includes
registration and all that goes with it.
Prabha Ramakrishnan
is the program chair. Contact
her or the secretary if you have questions.
Rooms & Local Arrangements
Coffee & doughnuts will be available Saturday morning.
There will also be a box lunch at noon.
Registration will take place outside the meeting rooms. Support our exhibitors and thank them for
their support.
Encourage your colleagues to fill out a Membership Application.
Early Sponsors
- American Association
of Physics Teachers
- Bernard O.
Beck & Co.
- Brooks/Cole
(ITP)
- Harcourt Brace/Saunders
College Publishers
- John Wiley
& Sons
- North Carolina
State University
- Physics Academic
Software
- Prentice-Hall
Publishers
- Spectrum Techniques
- Vernier Software
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