NEAF and NEAIC: Until Next Year

We returned last night, tired but happy from this year’s NEAF conference.  The vendor turn out was good and overall attendance appeared good, too, although it was  little hard to tell from our perspective.  We spent most of the two days in the children’s area helping with the various activities including a comet demonstration (followed …

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CANCELLED: Stargazing at Shore Road Park (Rescheduled)

As part of 100 Hours of Astronomy, I will be hosting stargazing at Shore Road Park, near the ball fields.  This was scheduled for Friday night, but the weather didn’t quite work out. Update 7:30pm: Well the weather forecast and reality seem to be rather different.  The forecast claims it  is currently partly cloudy, but …

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Open Source Physics Educational Java Tools

Well, it’s good news bad news time.  I was excited to find these via an article in the Physics Teacher.  Clearly, I haven’t been paying attention, because they’ve been mentioned before, but the item which caught my attention was an article that used a program called Tracker to analyze 2D motion.  I immediately thought of …

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