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1 Research and Teaching: How they Complement Each Other in Physics by Thomas D. Rossing BK Seminar: Science Education for Next Society June 22, 2006

2 YOUR SITE HERE Michael Faraday (1791- 1867)  Faraday’s Law of Induction  Discovered diamagnetism  Effect of magnetic field on light  Professor at the Royal Institution  Christmas lectures for young people

3 YOUR SITE HERE John Tyndall (1820-1893)  A teacher and railroad engineer in early life  He worked on transmission of sound diamagnetism, radiant heat and spontaneous generation glaciers (became a keen mountaineer) Tyndall effect: light scattering by particles  Gifted teacher and lecturer

4 YOUR SITE HERE Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)  First nuclear reactor at U. of Chicago: “The Italian navigator has landed in the New World”  Neutrino hypothesis and theory of beta decay  Fermi statistics  Nobel prize in 1938  Fermi’s golden rule:  Fermi lectures on Nuclear Physics

5 YOUR SITE HERE Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) Arrow indicating leaking o-ring on SRB Challenger on the launch pad  Theory of electrodynamics, quarks, and superfluids  Feynman diagrams  Nobel prize in 1965  Feynman lectures in physics  Oersted medal in 1972

6 YOUR SITE HERE Hans A. Bethe (1906-2005)  Theory of energy production in the stars  Nobel prize in 1967  Nuclear physics: “Bethe’s bible”  Oersted medal in 1993  Campaigned against nuclear weapons testing

7 YOUR SITE HERE Feynman and the Challenger Arrow indicating leaking o-ring on SRB Challenger on the launch pad Feynman’s famous o-ring and c-clamp experiment

8 YOUR SITE HERE Junehee Yoo  Teacher in middle school and university  PhD in physics education (1997) and physics (2005)  Research on acoustics of Korean musical instruments  Invited papers at ASA (2004),WESPAC (2006)  Invited workshop at ICPE (2006) Pyeongjong Pyeongyeong

9 YOUR SITE HERE Chris Chiaverina  High school physics teacher  Experiments to demonstrate linkage between physics, mathematics, and the arts  President of AAPT 2002  Invited speaker, ICPE in Korea, 2001  AAPT Award for High School Teaching 1997

10 YOUR SITE HERE

11 Light Science Physics for Visual Arts Thomas Rossing and Christopher Chiaverina  Textbook for artists  Light, color, photography, holography, symmetry, optical instruments, quantum optics

12 YOUR SITE HERE Cool Stuff Arbor Scientific

13 YOUR SITE HERE Sound waves in the early universe  Stephen Weinberg lectures about sound in the early universe

14 YOUR SITE HERE Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)  Experiments in sound and hearing  Surgeon in the army  Book on hearing  Invented the ophthalmoscope  Analysis of sound using Helmholtz resonators

15 YOUR SITE HERE Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919) (John William Strutt)  Theory of Sound: Bible of Acoustics  Optics: Rayleigh scattering  Nobel Prize in Physics 1904  Theoretical and experimental work in: electrodynamics, electromagnetism light scattering flow of liquids, hydrodynamics, density of gases, viscosity, capillarity  Renowned teacher of physics

16 YOUR SITE HERE Harvey Fletcher (1884-1981)  Millikan oil drop experiment  First stereophonic recording  First president of the Acoustical Society of America  25 years at BYU after retirement from Bell Labs

17 YOUR SITE HERE Allan D. Pierce (1936-)  Theoretical physicist  Atmospheric sound  Theory of scattering  Textbook Acoustics  Gold Medal in Acoustics in 2005  First Rossing Prize for Acoustics Education in 2004  Editor in Chief for the Acoustical Society of America

18 YOUR SITE HERE Isadore Rudnick ( 1917-1997)  Sound in liquid helium : fourth sound, zero sound  Hydrodynamic solitons  Gold Medal in Acoustics  Fritz London Award  Great teacher  Demonstration experiments

19 YOUR SITE HERE Seoul National University

20 YOUR SITE HERE I hear, I forget; I see, I remember; I do, I understand.

21 YOUR SITE HERE Anechoic room (Outdoor acoustical environment brought inside)

22 YOUR SITE HERE The Physics of Music

23 YOUR SITE HERE Maglev Magnetic trains that fly over ground

24 Thank You! Enjoy your research, enjoy your teaching!


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