Brad Moser

Plymouth State partial eclipse presentation on Saturday, October 14, 2023 - from 12:00-1:00 pm. If you are in the Plymouth, NH area, come out and learn about the partial eclipse and, if the weather cooperates, some telescope views! #PlymouthState

Plymouth State Planetarium show on Thursday, October 5, 2023 -- from 5:00-6:00 pm. If you are in the Plymouth, NH area, come out for the FIRST public show in years! #PlymouthState

@MsMagaryPhysics I’ve called it merging and smushing…and my favorite was the one time I accidentally combined those two words and said “smerge.”

#iteachphysics people what do you call the process of finding multiple proportionality relationships (e.g. y~a, y~1/b, y~c^2) and then mashing them into an equation with a constant?

@cjcornthwaite @FromPhDtoLife Right. Basically academia taught you to leave academia.

@FromPhDtoLife There are always ways to get more money. There are always more sources. And getting big chunks of money often isn't much more work than getting small chunks. Best lesson academia ever taught me.

Share some insights about money management that you gained while in academia.

@PhysikProf Hi Robert, the website is up and running again. Thanks for your patience.

@PhysicsAlive Thanks a lot! I feel like having discovered a gold mine and can not wait to tell my colleagues about it. Thank you for the interesting episodes!

Dear Brad @PhysicsAlive, I am trying to reach your site but can't... is it down? I hope it will be back soon!

@danny_doucette Another cool twist in this experiment: If the excess string hanging over the edge of the pulley happens to be equal to 1/2 wavelength in length, then it will oscillate with the rest of the string!

@joshua_r_eyler This graphic makes absolutely no sense to me. I honestly don’t know what it’s trying to show me. And I’ll do my due diligence to not bother trying to understand it, either, since it’s chock full of myths, haha.

Ok #iteachphysics pholks. I’m going through old equipment and found this. Lopsided glass goalposts? Anyone know what this might be used for? There’s a second smaller one as well.

@SecaurPhysics Hard to find free stuff for this. But here's a good place: dhammer.phy.tufts.edu/home/publicati…. Start with pp. 6-8. The writing about epistemology tends to be rather dense. But I've found it worth grappling with. I've pretty much stricken "misconceptions" from my lexicon now.

@aserkin b) Google sheets, and b*) Excel. Because all of the chem and meteorology majors in my class use Excel in all major courses. I honestly loved graphing on Logger Pro when I had it. But Ss won't have access to Pasco and Vernier in their lives. They need to learn spreadsheets.

Ts: what do you use for graphing data in your classes? Why? Suggestions? #iteachchem #iteachphysics a) Graphing by hand/paper b) Google Sheets c) Desmos d) nPlot e) Vernier Graphical Analysis f) who has time to teach them? g) something else entirely

@SecaurPhysics Yes to this!!

@SecaurPhysics Resources are all the tangible, real experiences that students have and the vocab they use around it. Our role is to say "let's build on what you've experienced and develop some concepts and vocab around it." Elby & Hammer have done a lot of work here. Redish, Scherr, & more

@SecaurPhysics This is the big difference between the "Resources" framework and the "Misconceptions/Preconceptions" framework. I'm trying to move more toward Resources.

@smartereveryday College physics teacher. I've got plenty of room to get smarter. Love your work!

Someone recently asked me "Who watches Smarter Every Day?" So... What do you do for a living? OR if you're a student, what are you studying?

Bought more happy/sad ball sets from @ArborSci so my students could do this classic experiment instead of watching me do it. I used the old 2D collision ramps made from bent rulers and scrap wood from the shop. Students predicted first, then tried it, then we talked about why.

@BarnettDreyfuss @ArborSci Love this demo!! Wow, what a great way to show this idea.

@JPteach314 @BarnettDreyfuss @ArborSci Totally see it!

@BarnettDreyfuss @ArborSci This video is a trip. With that ramp sitting on the floating apple makes the ramp look likes it floating too. Anyone else seeing this?

@smartereveryday Flame test for a new hot air quad-balloon

This is a still image from the new video. What is it? Wrong answers only.

@MrJoeMilliano This is a great lab! I've been doing this one for awhile. Great hook for life science crowd by connecting this to biceps muscle. Good Modeling lab: graph F1 vs. F2, then students can figure out slope is ratio of two lengths d2/d1.

New Introduction to Torque lab just dropped! Vary d2 and see the response of F1. Plot F1/F2 vs d2/d1, and see the ratios are the same! Some tricks and pro tips in the next tweet #iteachphysics #modphys