This is a podcast about learning and teaching physics, from someone who's been in the trenches for almost two decades. We'll also discuss how to relate the classroom to big ideas in contemporary research: like what circuits have to do with quantum mechanics, how special relativity impacts us - literally every day - and how the Doppler effect can teach us about the earliest moments - and the farthest reaches - of our universe.
Whether you’re a student or an instructor, you’ll find a wealth of ideas both practical and inspirational. Here at the Pasayten Institute, we’re convinced that like photons, perspectives should be exchanged, and often!
Join the discussion! Drop us a line: team@pasayten.org. We can't wait to talk shop with you.
Some recent physics news! The results from Fermilab's Muon g-2, art and science and the ingenuity's flight delays.
13 Apr 2021
Teaching Strategies : Good and Bad ways to Grade Exams
Today is more strategy than tactics. The context will be undergraduate education, but a lot can be directly applied to high school physics as well. We’ll also share some practical tips and hard truths, as well as some borderline egregious counterexamples that you’ll want to avoid.
12 Apr 2021
Learning Strategies : Think like a Physicist with... Benzene?
Learning physics sometimes means learning to think like a physicist. Today we'll discuss what that means - or at least what physicists tend to think that it means, and compare how a simple lesson from integral calculus points to a powerful lesson for modeling electron distributions in quantum mechanics.
9 Apr 2021
Physics Friday 2: Some physics new from the week that was!
Today: Majorana Fermions. Xenobots and Dark Matter.
7 Apr 2021
Big Ideas : Spin in Classical and Quantum Mechanics
Today we relate a narrative approach to taking ideas from first year physics to the threshold of quantum mechanics.
6 Apr 2021
Teaching Strategies : The open-homework quiz
Professor Gramila’s idea was simple. Homework was optional. Each week in recitation, we had a quiz. The quiz was closed book, but open homework. These special open-homework quizzes were designed with these two principles in mind.
5 Apr 2021
Learning Strategies : Samir's rule of three : 3 times without looking
This is a great tool for self-assessment and exam preparation, but it's also a useful mnemonic to systematize your learning. In particular, it's great for self-study.
2 Apr 2021
Physics Friday : Some physics new from the week that was!
The LHCb experiment reports on new tension with the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The Glashow Resonance is observed by the IceCube Neutrino experiment. Superconducting skyrmions are observed in two-layers of graphene.
31 Mar 2021
Big Ideas : Special Relativity and Proxima Centauri C
Traveling at 90% of the speed of light, how long would it take you to get to Proxima Centauri C, this potentially habitable planet? How long do you think? If you answered more than 4.24 years. You’d be totally wrong.
30 Mar 2021
Teaching Strategies : Polling with Quizzes
Assessment is a fun topic to explore intellectually - how best to have students demonstrate their knowledge and skill, but in practice it can be a huge pain. Grading at scale is really, really hard.
29 Mar 2021
Learning Strategies: Training the Square Root of 25
i’ve been teaching math and science for almost two decades. I’ve taught to grade schoolers. I’ve taught to graduate students. In graduate school - like many in my cohort - teaching was my job. As an undergraduate, I worked as for the university, in the dorms, tutoring students in technical fields like math, physics and chemistry. All that tutoring had a huge impact on me - professionally, and that’s the context I’d like to talk about today.
19 Mar 2021
Trailer : Introducing Accelerated Physics
Introducing Accelerated Physics! It's a show to discuss matters of learning and teaching physics, connecting learning and assessment strategies with the big ideas behind the math that describes our universe.
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