Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Mowry, University of St. Thomas-St. Paul

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

committee work between physics and engineering on the E&M course. Thisprovided the starting point for answering questions such as, “What E&M skills do we want ourstudents to have?”, “What is our final product?”, and “Where do our graduates go to work?”Since the study of E&M has been active for over a century, the approaches used by otherinstitutions to teach and integrate their undergraduate, graduate, and laboratory curricula were Page 11.72.3studied. A very useful list of ‘Universities' Electromagnetics Research Groups’ can be found atthe web site of the University of Illinois, Urbana4. A majority of the research groups located inthe

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Upper-Level Physics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; Eswara Venugopal

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

Experiments, (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 2005) 6th ed., pp.325-350.8 Arons, A.B., Teaching Introductory Physics, (John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1997), pp.188-214 and 333- 339.9 McDermott, L.C., et.al., Physics by Inquiry, (John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1996).10 G.Brizuela and A. Juan, “Planck’s constant determination using a light bulb,” Am. J. Phys 64 (6), 819-821 (1996).11 I. R. Edmonds, “Stephan-Boltzmann Law in the Laboratory,” Am. J. Phys. 36, 845 (1968).12 B. Prasad and R. Mascarenhas, “A laboratory experiment on the application of Stefan’s law to tungsten filament lamps,” Am. J. Phys 46 (4), 420-423 (1978