It amazes me how much my brain cranked out over the past 5 weeks. There's so much material the students had to read that I couldn't read it and write lab procedures and help during class and look for a full time permanent position. So most times I was going from the memory of tutoring or when I did the work last in college. Concept-wise, I am a nerd and read Physics, construction, and electronics books/articles for fun so jumping in to help was fine. I remembered a suprising amount of formulae and I helped the students learn alot which makes me happy. They will all be so ready once College Physics in Fall 2012 or 2013.
I was trying to remember all the different concepts and formulae I helped students understand over the past 5 weeks and here's what I came up with so far(in no particular order):
- Laws of Thermodynamics
- Ohm's Law (the triangle!)
- Reading resistor bands by colour
- Inductance
- Capacitance
- Drawing and reading basic schematics
- Parallel and Series Circuits
- Kirchoff's Voltage Law
- Force-vector equations
- Bernouli's Formula/Pressure
- Frequency and Waves
- Low-Emissivity Windows
- Photovolteics
- Insulation types and Thermal Conductivity
- Heat Transfer
- Energy Efficient Lighting
- Calculating Power costs
- AC/DC motors
- Radiation
- Specific Heat
- Phase Change
- ...and probably some things I've missed
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