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  • E&M course this summer (6 credits)
    Download the Full Document PHY622: Learn how to teach E&M better at Buffalo State this summer. Would you like to improve your understanding of Electricity and Magnetism and improve yourstudents’ learning? Are you confident teaching the related yet distinct ideas of electric field,electric forces, electric potential, electric potential energy, EMF, voltage, capacitance,inductance, magnetic fields, magnetic forces, and current to your students? Would you like todevelop greater conceptual comfort with robust atomic level models more appropriate for HSand college introductory E & M learners than Ohm’s Law and water flowing through pipes?* PHY 622: The class will run 15 days July … Read more
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  • New LIPTA Website
    Stay tuned for the new and improved LIPTA website…
  • 2022 Fall Conference
    November 5, 2022 9am – 12 noon Location: TBD Presentations: Collaborative Learning: Energy The Physics of Sports Registration coming soon.
  • President’s Message
    What’s your favorite topic in physics? I’ve heard that question before, usually from a student. I suspect that my students just want to get me to talk off-topic for a while. And sometimes I do – who can resist rambling on about physics? But really, what is your favorite topic in physics?Is your favorite topic that many of us cover at the very beginning of introductory physics courses: kinematics? Kinematics is so easy to grasp because we’ve all thrown, rolled, and bounced balls, and we know what a speed limit means, even if we don ‘t initially know the difference … Read more