PICUP Workshops at the 2024 Joint Spring Meeting of the AAPT, APS, and SPS Texas sections
Two workshops on Integrating Computation into Undergraduate Physics Courses are being held at the 2024 Joint Spring Meeting of the Texas Sections of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), American Physical Society (APS), and Zone 13 of the Society of Physics Students (SPS). Physics educators from high schools, 2-year colleges, and 4-year colleges and universities are welcome to participate.
Where: Stephenville Campus of Tarleton State University
When: Friday, March 22, 2024
Meeting and Registration information can be found here: https://www.tarleton.edu/aapt/
W1 Integrating Computation into Physics Courses: Introductory Physics, 10am - 12:00pm
Tentative W1 Schedule
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Welcome, Introductions, Review of PICUP site and available resources |
| 10:15 - 11:10 | Introductory kinematics and dynamics with spreadsheets |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | An introduction to vPython / web-vPython |
W3 Integrating Computation into Physics Courses: Advanced Topics, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Tentative W3 Schedule
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Welcome, Introductions, Review of PICUP site and available resources |
| 2:15 - 3:00 | Discussion of benefits and challenges of integrating computation |
| 3:00 - 3:10 | BREAK |
| 3:10 - 4:00 | Approaches to computation in sophomore and upper-level physics courses |
| 4:00 - 4:10 | BREAK |
| 4:10 - 5:00 | Work on Exercise sets, and/or exchange of ideas about integrating computation into your courses. |
