Teacher Definition and 279 Threads

Homework Statement Hey Guys, I don't really want to have to post this in of all places due to how advanced everyone else is compared to me, but I went to my second physics class and I have a huge problem. My teacher gave me my homework, but I have no idea on Earth how to do it because she...

Just introducing myself. My name is Paul Looyen and have taught physics for 22 years, mostly in Australia, but also for three years in Virginia, USA. Interests is the big (astronomy) and the small (quantum) but obviously enjoy lots in between.

This one may sound like a rant, so please forgive me if I am generalizing a lot. In my student life as well as teaching career, I have noticed an alarming trend that makes me question the worthiness of my profession. The only type of students that I (as well as other teachers I have seen in...

Hello PF, I am a middle school teacher in Humboldt county, CA and teach physical science to eighth graders. We are beginning our electricity and magnetism unit and have students have experimented with making a light bulb illuminate using a battery and copper wire. My question is, if we make a...

I AM I am a Minecrafter that wants a pet anaconda. I wonder how we, humans, will evolve, in the future. I hear the stars talking, ever so quietly through the night. I see Jupiter playing jump rope. I want to know all the peculiarities that exist. I am a Minecrafter that wants a pet anaconda. I...

Deborah Hearn taught physics for many years at the University of Calgary before coming to Nanaimo. She is very interested in research about physics teaching and how to make it more effective. She has had a lifelong interest in creativity in science, and its relationship to scientific discovery...

As an 8th grade student, I can honestly say that I understood everything he stated. The things that I didn't know, I figured out. Not with the internet but with the lecture, the way he describes things and how he uses them, i figured out. It's amazing how he speaks, it wasn't boring at all and...

I will be working with a group of high school students on introductory modern physics. They've studied classical physics, chemistry and differential calculus. Some will be taking integral calculus concurrently. We work from Weidner and Sells Elementary Modern Physics. I do not see much I can do...

My teacher mentioned this was a very important thing to know in calculus, he didn't explain too much about it but tried to emphasize how important is it. If $$P=\{a,x,...,x_{k-1},x_{k},...,x_{n}=b\} , P^*=\{a,x,...,x_{k-1},x^*_{k},x_{k},...,x_{n}=b\}$$ Then...

My Physics teacher told us to use a = g x sinθ during a lab trying to find how close we could calculate gravity using an inclined plane, a moving cart and a motion sensor to measure acceleration. He also drew a diagram next to the formula. I just wanted to confirm that his diagram was wrong, or...

Hi Everyone, I am a high school Physics Teacher. I have a B.S. in Chemistry and a B. ChemE from a Big 10 University. I did a Post-Bacc. certification program to get my teaching certification in Wisconsin. I live and teach in southeastern Wisconsin. I have small children. I'm looking for a grad...

In a recent exam, the question came up ""If the object has zero acceleration the object must be at rest" is this statement: A: Always true B: True in space C: Sometimes true D: Never true" Obviously we can cross of the first two, but for the other two its not so easy, for this question I...

In math class my teacher said that if you take any base or A and square it that the answer is howmany times two goes into the base multiplied by the base times 2, does this always work?

So I decided that I want to be a teacher (maybe high school and possibly college). To those who are physics teachers / professors, I would like to know what advice you can give me as well as what you like about being a teacher, and what you dislike? Thanks. :)

Hello all! I was wondering if any of you Physics educators could help me realistically size up my future options as a Physics teacher. Back story: After receiving my bachelor's degree in business management and simultaneously working in the business world for around 6 years, I became unhappy...

So I was helping my sister on homework and there was this problem: 2 abs(2x + 4) +1 > or equal to -3 teacher told her to ignore the -3 and just set it equal to zero. Soo should you? This question got me confused. can't you just go about solving, bringing the 1 to the left and then dividing by 2...

Hello forum, I'm a high school senior, who is taking a AP Calculus course, I enjoy math a lot and I'm attending Missouri S&T next fall to pursue a degree in physics. My problem is my AP Calculus teacher is not a very good teacher, I've even talked to others in my class about this and most of...

Homework Statement A teacher would like to distribute 20 candies to 5 children, each of which receives at least two candies. (a) Find the probability that at least one child receives at least 6 candies. (b) Find the probability that at least one child receives at least 7 candies if at least...

Are there any threads to find teachers who can give me reading and problem assignments to complete, and who I can send my completed work to? I want to make it clear that I'm not asking for lectures, but just for reading and problem assignments. I understand that everyone's time is valuable and...

Is anyone familiar with the difference in pay for high school teachers vs. applying your skills in private sector workforce? For instance, are there tax benefits that teachers receive that can be quantified vs. those of say some analyst (if they make the same pay)? What about pensions? Are...

Next semester, I have an English teacher who apparently marks ridiculously hard, and evidently, the highest mark in his class was somewhere at a low 80% for his previous grade 11 class. I'm in grade 12 and I need a 90% or at least a high 80%. What sort of ways are there for dealing with teachers...

I hope this is in the right place. For a long time I did not know what I wanted to do as a career. I went to college and got a BA in English because I really enjoyed reading and writing. I am very proud and happy with my education, but I have an issue. I wish to become a Science teacher in a...

Consider the electric circuit shown in the figure. Using Kirchhoff's rules, select True or False for the following equations. a.) I2 + I3 = I1 b.) ε1 - I2R2 - I3R3 - I1R1 = 0 c.) ε2 - I1R5 - I3R3 - I2R4 = 0 http://tinypic.com/r/2zyws55/8 My answers were: True, False, False. However, the...

Hello, So I'm currently a senior in high school and I want to major in physics. I was really excited to start Honors Physics this year and meet my teacher. When I met him, I told him how I wanted to be an experimental physicist; he replied saying, "That's cool". Since then, things have not...

It's not really homework, it's something we did in class, but I don't understand why we did it this way. Problem, you have a cylinder with uniform charge density rho and some point p which lies on the x-axis (i'll draw a picture). Find the potential at p. Solution. You have to...

I am curious to know what my chances would be to transition into engineering after having taught physics and math at the high school level for about a decade. I have a BA in physics and math and have also accumulated a host of professional development hours, many in research. Is transitioning...

Hello everyone, I teach Physics at a local high school. I designed a simple lab to determine the relationship between net work and kinetic energy. The diagram is shown below: In this experiment, students release the cart from rest, while keeping displacement constant. A Vernier motion...

Hello everyone. I've been searching for some similar topics, although I didn't find one. In case a topic already exists, sorry about that. I'm currently an undergrad studying CS, and I'd like to know whether becoming an AP teacher at a local high school requires additional coursework. For...

It boils down to this: Imagine you had a mattress for you and your significant other, who is lighter than you. You sleep on the right side. You are top heavy. Is the most pressure on the top right quadrant of the surface of the mattress, or the top right quadrant of the bottom surface of...

Hi, I'm 17 years old and I attend college. I have an English class twice a week. Mostly males attend my class and I am one of 3 females. There's this boy In my class that I think might like me, I am NOT interested in this person whatsoever, but he came and sat next to me during one of our...

Hi all, I am an undergrad physics major working in two physics labs and also doing research in math with a professor. I only have two strong recomendations from my two physics lab professors, so for my third recomendation (for physics graduate school) i wanted to ask my math professor, so i...

Have any of you worked as a high school math or physics teacher or nuclear engineer? If so do you like your job? Is your job stressful. Would you do it again? What other jobs in math or science have you had that you liked?

Where do they find these people and why are they being set free on our kids? http://news.yahoo.com/substitute-teacher-taped-spouting-bizarre-conspiracy-theories-high-135248463.html We ban crackpot like this in this forum. Zz.

Homework Statement A 1200 kg elevator is supported by a cable. If the elevator is accelerating down at 1.1 m/s2, what is the tension in the cable? Homework Equations F=ma The Attempt at a Solution W=mg W=1200 kg(1.1 m/s2 ) W= 1320 kg 1.1= 1320-F cable/ 350 kg Tension=1705...

Homework Statement A 350 kg piano is dropped from a stationary helicopter. As it falls, it picks up speed and the air resistance increases, causing its acceleration to be less than 9.8 m/s2 What is the piano's acceleration at the moment that the air resistance is exerting an upward force of...

I was wondering about the situation with regards to teaching high school physics and the extent that it is a viable path for those with a MS and/or a PhD in physics. I have heard it said numerous times, on physics forums and in my physics department, that many high schools are starved for...

Hi everyone! Thank you clicking on this thread. I am a community college student seeking to transfer by the end of this upcoming spring semester. I plan to major in math; my main goal is to become a high school teacher or community college professor. Only recently did I find out that...

Can anyone learn Physics alone (without a teacher) ?? I'm doing a research about { If students can study Physics without teachers } and I need answers to these questions , please...:confused: 1-What are the topics in Physics which the student MUST learn in the beginning of learning Physics ...

1. A 1000 kg automobile initially moving 72 km/h jams the brakes and skids to a stop in a distance of 24 m on a dry pavement but stops in 81.6 m for a wet pavement. (Neglect reaction delay.) A. Calculate the applied forces for both weather conditions. B. What is the coefficient of friction for...

One of my primary motivations for moving to teaching is that my summers would be "open". One of my goals would be to spend my summer months either in inner city or overseas areas teaching underprivileged students. I really don't want to teach high due to politics and the terrible education...

Homework Statement The problem is problem 2 of the attached picture Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I got the problem wrong, and I am trying to understand what my teacher did. Particularly, on the right side of his solution, he took the θ acceleration to be...

Hi all, this is 1 of my homework questions. The resolution of microscopes is approximately half the illumination wavelength. a) Assuming a visible microscope has an average wavelength of 550 nm, what is the resolution limit? I'm not sure what my teacher means by resolution limit?

1. A particle is moving around a circle of radius R in the x-0-y plane. During the motion, neither the x nor the y component of the particle's velocity exceeds v. Find the minimum possible period of revolutions. 2. V=2*∏/TR 3. x=y=v x^2+y^2=2v^2=V^2=sqrt{2}v T=2∏R/sqrt{2}/v...

hello, I did double degree in physics and mathematics and now I'm considering being a high school teacher. i always had passion for it. i actually wanted to be teacher in community college and i still plan to apply for that when i get my masters (not attending atm). anyway, i have 0...

Hi everyone, I've got a lot on my mind and I would really appreciate any advice. I'm entering into my senior year of college in the Fall and for about a year now, I've been set on becoming a high school physics teacher because I'd like to maybe make a dent in education problems in the U.S...

Rewriting an expression...what math operation did my teacher do? I'm trying to see how did my teacher rewrite this expression in the following manner: What mathametical operation did he do? I really can't see it...

hybridization of carbon--is my teacher right? https://www.myhaikuclass.com/c/937570/file/show/15157688.jpg (comes up as a download) Hi, in the link above, I am looking at the 1st image. This is the answer my teacher offered, but at 7 and 8, shouldn't the hybridization be sp, not sp2...

Hi everyone, I'm a high school teacher from Sydney, Australia. I shoot videos of my classroom lessons for my students as a resource for their revision (or to help them catch up if they ever miss class). Some of them mentioned that I should share these videos with others because they might be...

Hello, I graduated from University in 2009 with a business degree but have decided that wasnt for me. I want to be a teacher and secondary math seems like the best path to take [higher demand & tutoring opportunities] While I never was a genius in school, I did alright (mostly B's with a few...

If you have any looks at the situation or have experienced the same you might want to read. So I'm studying in europe. I am 18 and am on a course focused on maths and physics, but there is also biology and such. I got **** grades the year before in maths but just because I was lazy and I took...