Matter & Interactions II, Week 3

This was the first full week of classes and I feel as though we’re dreadfully behind where we need to be. This week was about chapter 14, electric fields and matter. I love this chapter becuase it’s mostly experimental. The experiments use plastic tape (aka sticky tape or Scotch tape). I try to let students […]

Matter & Interactions II, Week 2

This week was yet another partial week. Between weather and holidays, we’ve not yet had a full week of classes. Such is life I guess. This week, we looked at the electric field of a static particle and the electric field of a fixed dipole on the dipole’s axis and on the perpendicular bisector of the […]