Teaching
For my PHYS205 class, students were asked to come up with presentations about a scholarly article or some other relevant topic. I’ve included the presentations below. I was very happy with how they turned out.
Samantha Johnson’s presentation on Hubble Telescope Observations of Uranus’ Aurorae
Joe Spinuzzi’s presentation on Maria Cunitz
Amanda Bohney’s presentation about the discovery of pulsars.
Kevin Ketterling’s presentation on flares from the supermassive blackhole in the center of our galaxy.
Thomas Florence’s presentation about the disruption and accretion of an asteroid by a white dwarf.
As an extra credit project, I asked the students from my mechanics class to film demonstrations of physical systems we discussed in class. The videos turned out very nice, so I’ve shared some of them below.
Spent all day today making a short video illustrating free precession of a disk. I’ve embedded the video below, and I’ve posted the equations in the video here. Earth also exhibits free precession, called Chandler wobble.