[LON-CAPA-users] Survey Question on Resources

[Mark Lucas]

Jay,

Thanks! I'm particularly interested in the conceptual physics problems!

I'll try to get a synopsis out soon of the replies.

Mark

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 07:44 -0500, Jay Sullivan wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Sorry for the delay. Just to document other resources people might
> find useful:
> 
> VCU domain:
> 
> /res/vcu/jmsullivan/physics
> 
> Several hundred physics problems appropriate for algebra-based,
> calculus-based, and tech physics courses.
> 
> /res/vcu/jmsullivan/conceptual_physics
> 
> Several hundred conceptual physics problems that have been adapted
> from Robert Gowdy's Foundations of Physics course at VCU. I'm still
> working on some of them as time permits, but a large majority of them
> are ready for use. I use them quite extensively to teach Conceptual
> Physics (following the Hewitt text).
> 
> /res/vcu/jmsullivan/math
> 
> Several hundred algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and technical math
> problems spanning a range of course levels from introductory algebra
> (algebra I), intermediate algebra (algebra II), technical math, and
> college algebra.
> 
> All of the above problems are published for system wide use. In
> addition, ALL of these problems are published OPEN-SOURCE so that
> anyone can use, modify, etc. these problems. I always find it
> frustrating to find a great problem in loncapa that someone else
> authored and I can't "look under the hood" to see how it is
> coded.......... (stealth rant)
> 
> Best,
> Jay
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 8, 2008 7:49 AM, <Robert_Brewington@er.monroe.edu> wrote:
>                 --------------------
>                 Domain:
>                 monroe
>                 
>                 For what subject areas do you have system-wide
>                 available resources people might
>                 like to use? 
>                 
>                 High School Chemistry, Physics
>                 
>                 
>                 Are these appropriate for College, AP HS, 9-12 general
>                 or all three?
>                 
>                 High School, AP
>                 
>                 What are some pointers to these materials?
>                 
>                 /res/monroe/Chemistry
>                 /res/monroe/Physics
>                 
>                 Any other comments you'd like to add?
>                 
>                 Chemistry and Physics have bunches of old NYS Regents
>                 problems used for review.
>                 Chemistry has a bunch of labs; Physics is in progress.
>                 These labs have both LonCapa pieces, and Excel
>                 spreadsheets to check student calculations.
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 ----------------------------------
>                 Example:
>                 Domain: ohiou
>                 
>                 For what subject areas do you have system-wide
>                 available resources people might
>                 like to use? 
>                 
>                 Physics
>                 Physical Sciences
>                 Chemistry (though not opened up as much as we'd like
>                 yet)
>                 No Math or Biology
>                 
>                 Are these appropriate for College, AP HS, 9-12 general
>                 or all three?
>                 The physics are a wide range of calc-based,
>                 algebra-based and physical sciences.
>                 
>                 
>                 What are some pointers to these materials?
>                 /res/ohiou/OUp200lib (algebra-based)
>                 /res/ohiou/OUp250lib (calc-based)
>                 /res/ohiou/OUpsclib/105  Physical Science - Color,
>                 Light and Sound
>                 /res/ohiou/physlets  Some physlet problems
>                 /res/ohiou/ccliphys/dcCircuits DC circuit problems
>                 from a CCLI proposal
>                                               about 30 with a wide
>                 range of difficulty.
>                 
>                 Any other comments you'd like to add?
>                 I'd love to find people who might be interested in
>                 picking a topic (like
>                 circuits or energy), looking at the literature, and
>                 then writing a whole slew of
>                 problems that particularly take advantage of
>                 LON-CAPA's capabilities.
>                 
>                 I need to convince chemistry to open their problems
>                 more.
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