{"id":281,"date":"2009-07-28T18:44:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2014-01-20T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T20:50:40","slug":"physics-on-the-subway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/science-pages\/physics-on-the-subway\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics on the Subway: Take your class on a field trip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Workshop at NSTA San Francisco Conference<\/h2>\n<p>I will be presenting a <a title=\"NSTA short course page\" href=\"http:\/\/nsta.org\/conferences\/schedule.aspx?id=2011san&amp;action=search&amp;format=Short+course\">&#8220;short course&#8221; at NSTA in SF on March 11, 2011<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have resources for this version up yet, but below you can find documents from my 2005 presentation in Chicago. This time I&#8217;m in my &#8220;backyard,&#8221; so we&#8217;ll actually go out on the subway (<a title=\"BART's website\" href=\"http:\/\/bart.gov\">BART<\/a>) and run some of the experiments on the trains.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google map\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/WenE\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a map of the 2011 trip<\/a>: Staring at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, walking to BART (about 0.3 miles), subway to Balboa Park station, then returning.<\/p>\n<h2>Presentation at NSTA Chicago Conference<\/h2>\n<p>November 11, 2005<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/science\/subway\/NSTA-presentation-Amosslee.ppt\">PowerPoint version<\/a> (822kb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/science\/subway\/NSTA-presentation-Amosslee.pdf\">PDF version<\/a> (882 kb)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/science\/subway\/student-handout-acceleration-on-BART.pdf\">Student handout for BART tip<\/a> (PDF, 195kb) (I don&#8217;t write in Word; if you want a word version, do a web search for &#8220;pdf to word conversion&#8221; and you can get an copy you can customize for your class.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/science\/subway\/accelerometer.cmbl\">Vernier Software LoggerPro data<\/a> (.cmbl, 56kb). Taken on BART from about one minute out of Pleasant Hill Station to just out of Rockridge Station. Data gathered using Vernier low-g accelerometer.<\/li>\n<li>Short movie of a ball accelerating&#8211;coming soon (.mov, 348kb)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bart.gov\/\">BART&#8217;s home page.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workshop at NSTA San Francisco Conference I will be presenting a &#8220;short course&#8221; at NSTA in SF on March 11, 2011. I don&#8217;t have resources for this version up yet, but below you can find documents from my 2005 presentation in Chicago. This time I&#8217;m in my &#8220;backyard,&#8221; so we&#8217;ll actually go out on the subway (BART) and run some&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":269,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}