Back to Uni 2 (Physics Matters) Teachers’ Development Workshop
Thursday, 18 April 2019 from 9:00 am - 3:30 pm.
Location: Canterbury University, Christchurch
This workshop provides an opportunity to practice at a level higher than NCEA level 3 in order to reinforce the underlying physics pertaining to L3.
This workshop is for physics teachers who have also completed first year calculus at university; or who have a good working knowledge of calculus e.g. partial derivatives, integrals etc., and are able to handle such things as polar co-ordinates, and have good algebraic skills.
Attendance is free for current NZIP Members.
Programme
| Time | Activity |
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Let There Be Waves (Ben Ruck & Michele Governale) Wave equations, superposition principle, Fourier transforms, and applications to electromagnetism. |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning tea |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Stationary-Action Principle (Michele Governale & Ben Ruck) Advantages of the Lagrangian formulation of mechanics, and interesting examples. |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch break |
| 1:30 – 3:30 | Fun physics problems (Ben Ruck & Michele Governale) Problems that are nominally at NCEA level 3 but which are especially tricky, including Scholarship Exam problems |