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Date: Thu Oct  9 09:37:26 2008
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From rmccullough at ysu.edu  Thu Oct  9 13:04:20 2008
From: rmccullough at ysu.edu (Roy McCullough)
Date: Thu Oct  9 14:14:43 2008
Subject: [YAPA] Wednesday's YAPA meeting
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Tony pointed out I forgot to include the date.  Wednesday October 15.  

Roy


Roy McCullough wrote:


>
>Hello fellow Science Enthusiasts: A quick note to remind you that this 
month's YAPA meeting will be at Canfield High.  Our host is Steve 
Hlaudy.  A map is attached.   As usual, the meeting will start about 
7:00 P.M. and last until we've all had a chance to share (usually 
between 8:30 and 9:00).   We'll aim this time for momentum and energy, 
but will be interested in anything you care to share. Hope to see you 
there. Roy and Mike For those who couldn't make September's meeting:
>What you missed:
>Dick Zitto started by sharing some give away items he found as he was 
cleaning out his barn.   This included a $280+ CPO demonstration 
electric motor that will be given away at November?s YAPA meeting.  You 
can look it up on CPO?s website.  ? Be there.
> 
>Jodi McCullough presented the Large Hadron Rap from YouTube, a sure way 
to help your students? perspective on geeks.  
> 
>This was followed by Mike Crismano with several sharing/give away 
items? Clearing out the storage area, he found torque pipes to give 
away.  He followed this with demonstrating the effect of free fall on a 
burning candle.  He next showed us a new way to ?rip? a CD.   Using 
tape to peel of the paint layer of CD?s often produces a very useful 
transmission diffraction grating?when combined with a shoe box, this 
produced a quality, inexpensive spectroscope.   We hope to do this as a 
make and take at the November YAPA meeting, so plan to come and bring a 
shoe box along.  Mike finished his show with a simple conductivity 
tester that allowed one to test the conductivity of a solution using 
battery level voltage? this lead to a lively discussion of Jarod?s law.
> 
>Jim Andrews followed with a teaser from his workshop at this weekend?s 
Ohio Section of AAPT meeting.  If you haven?t gotten work of it.  The 
meeting is at Lorain County Community College (North of Elyria) and 
starts Saturday at 9:00 A.M.  They never turn away people who register 
at the door.  Jim?s workshop is on Intro to Materials Physics-Polymers 
and will have several work stations where participants can investigate 
the how polymers differ based on their physical and chemical exposure 
(You?ll definitely want to check out happy and sad balls that are at 
temperature extremes.)  His teaser involved investigating the density 
of different polymers.
> 
>Roy McCullough followed with a group demonstration on scale models of 
the solar system.  Starting with a scale that made planetary sizes 
viewable and the Sun about 30 cm in size, we found that we ran out of 
hallway space.   Scaling back to a standard light bulb for the Sun we 
still couldn?t get beyond Jupiter?Finally, with a maglite size Sun, we 
got out to the dwarf planet Pluto.
> 
>As usual, we ended the meeting with drawings for giveaway items.    
>_________________________________________________________________
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From: rjzitto at ysu.edu (Richard Zitto)
Date: Mon Oct 20 13:11:27 2008
Subject: [YAPA] Fwd: Digital Resources for Teaching & Learning
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R J Zitto  Physics Instructor
Youngstown State University
Physics & Astronomy Dept
Youngstown, OH 44555
Office 330 941 7110  fax  330 941 3121
cell 330 550 3652
rjzitto@ysu.edu
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From: robert.pendzick at neomin.org (Robert Pendzick)
Date: Mon Oct 20 21:47:23 2008
Subject: [YAPA] Spark timer for tape
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Sorry, I did not know Steve H. at Canfield email.  In using the pull tape with 
the cart a  bell with carbon paper or a sharp point with the tape pulled 
between the bell and clapper will mark the tape just as well as a spark timer.
 Some of the pull tapes use to obtain a mark with just light pressure.

Robert Pendzick

"Amusement to an observing mind is study."  Benjamin Disraeli


From rmccullo at hotmail.com  Tue Oct 21 21:09:15 2008
From: rmccullo at hotmail.com (Roy McCullough)
Date: Tue Oct 21 20:09:27 2008
Subject: [YAPA] YSU science fair workshop
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From rjzitto at ysu.edu  Fri Oct 31 16:21:22 2008
From: rjzitto at ysu.edu (Richard Zitto)
Date: Fri Oct 31 15:21:42 2008
Subject: [YAPA] Fwd: Teaching Job
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FYI   z

Gary Capone wrote:


>Dick,
> 
>There is a teaching job in science open for anyone who is interested in
>applying.  It will be at the newly formed, Mahoning County High School. 
 The
>school will be a combination of a traditional school and school at the
>Juvenile Justice Center.  The candidate will teach small classes 
(probably
>not more than 10 students in a class). The school is for troubled 
students.
>There will be adult supervisors in each classroom to keep strict order. 
 If
>students do not adhere to the strict guidelines set forth, then they 
must
>leave the school and are sent to the JJC.  Please contact Jeff 
Dragovich for
>more information.  You may reach him at 330.718.0661, or at 330.965.7828
>(Mahoning County Educational Service Center). His email is:
>mcoe_jad@access-k12.org.  They will also accept retired teachers who 
want to
>get back into teaching.
> 
>Thanks,
> 
>Gary
>

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Office 330 941 7110  fax  330 941 3121
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