Friday, April 29th in Olin 141 at 3:30 pm (Everyone is welcome!) There will be snacks available after the talk.
“Why being a physics teacher is so much fun”
Quick: remember the difference between Rayleigh and Mie scattering.
Now: describe how the Newton is a derived unit.
Finally: figure out why this one computer won’t run the lab software.
Sounds like undergraduate physics, all jumbled up. The professional life of a physics teacher is all of those things. My experiences in the classroom in my 15 years post-Carleton have rarely been as hard as Arjendu’s Quantum I but they’ve lasted longer than that ten-week course & have found me teaching at all hours of the day and night. The content has rarely been harder than the work that I did as an undergraduate but the depth of the questions asked by students lead me to really learn the material in ways that I never did at Carleton. I finally felt like I understood what voltage was after teaching it for the first time. Being a physics teacher is a joy and a challenge on a daily basis. It illuminates the universe for me as well and I feel like I’m preparing the next generation of citizens and scientists.
Right: “Mie is for larger particles.”