Following Friday night's reception and dinner, Gino Segre, Professor of Physics at University of Pennsylvania, spoke on the topic of the Copenhagen Conference, and the early struggles with quantum theory.

On Saturday morning, Robert Beck Clark of Brigham Young University spoke on "A Teacher Preparation Program that Works." His talk was followed by contributed papers/demos by Connie Cooper, Marc Baron, Barry Feierman, Jeff Wetherhold, Deborah Goldader, and Harry Woodcock. Next, section officers for 2008-2009 were elected (see below for a list of officers). Gifts of appreciation were presented to John Patane, Chet Zack, and Bill Berner. The morning ended with the awarding of doorprizes.

After lunch, three simultaneous workshops were held: PTRA Gravity Workshop led by Don Scholl and Jeff Wetherhold, a Modeling Workshop led by Doug Vallette and Jess Dykes, and an open discussion of college topics, led by Paul Angiolillo.

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• scroll down to University of Pennsylvania
• select School of Arts and Sciences
• under Physics and Astronomy, select Electricity and Magnetism Demonstrations

Last night's FALL DEMO NIGHT was a great success.

First, thanks again to our hosts at Springside School: Kim Eberle-Wang and Sarah Sullivan.

We had a wonderful time getting to know one another at dinner. We had about 40 in attendance.

And thanks to our Demonstation volunteers:

• Ron Pedalty - polarizated light phenomena and a GIANT GIVE AWAY of polaroid lenses
• Bob Schwartz - don't buy the dollar store LED flashlights and here's why and other financial matters... did anyone get Bob's T-shirt's meaning???
• Liz Chesick and Tom Gordon duo - puzzles about rotation and moment of inertia (stumped all of us)
• Tom Foley - wonderful website information
• Debra Gordon (no relation to Tom) - mass on spring simulation with spreadsheets
• Bill Berner - a very cool spectrophotometer that works with Vernier/Pasco interface (I want one of these). Bill also mentioned that the local amusement parks may be shutting down the Pasco/Vernier hardware on rides. You will hear more about this as we get new information.
• Jeff Wetherhold - more very cool video animations made by Jeff (write to Jeff if you want to buy these)
• Barry Feierman - a simple, cheap, inertial mass measuring gadget (under $10) for a 9th grade physics lab
• Sandy Knott and Tom Lavanga of Perkiomen Valley HS - warped space and relativity - that soooo cool demonstration with the balls ..... and net. For more details, write to Sandy and Tom.

I continue to be impressed with the expertise in our section and how much fun it is to share ideas, demos, handouts. I'm nearing 39 years teaching high school at Westtown School and I know there is still much to learn about Physics.

So again, thank you to our hosts and to all of you for showing up for a fun night.