Physics is sum phun. My personal facebook profile is at http://facebook.com/meador
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- Affiliation:
- Bartlesville High School
- Location:
- Bartlesville, OK, 74003
- Phone:
- 1-918-336-3311
- Birthday:
- July 27, 1966
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School Dress-Up DaysUpdated about a week ago
Fluffy the CatUpdated about 6 months ago
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Mark Blumer http://iphonehangtime.com/scores/ -This dind of seems like disaster waiting to happen but it's pretty cool too.
Granger Meador
This links to an enormous
interactive map of the almost two hundred manned and unmanned
exploratory missions in our solar system over the past fifty years. It
was created by graphic designers Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco for
National Geographic. Click on the link and use the box in the
upper-right corner of the screen to choose what area you’d like to see,
and zoom as needed.
Granger Meador This week NASA had the first launch from Cape Kennedy of a vehicle other than the shuttle since the old Apollo program Saturn rockets.
Source: www.boston.com
On Wednesday, October 28th, NASA launched its Ares I-X prototype vehicle, the first launch from Kennedy's pads of a vehicle other than the space shuttle since the Apollo Program's Saturn rockets were retired. ...
Granger Meador BHS Halloween 2009 with Granger Meador as "Oklahoma Jones", Chris Ruhl as "Mr. Spock", Sandra Cloud as the nun, and Julie Anderson as, er, um, someone special.
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The other day I had to choke back the tears in class again, for I always break down when I mention Carl Sagan and the Pale Blue Dot.
Granger Meador Nerd Day of Homecoming 2009 with David Ayres, who teaches chemistry at BHS and was my student in physics 20 years ago.
Source: www.wired.com
Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, is also its only moon with a strong magnetic field. Now, using thousands of images from the Hubble Space Telescope,
Granger Meador Working in the dark, dry highlands of Chile with a Nikon D3 digital camera (50 mm lens open at f5.6), Serge Brunier and Frédéric Tapissier patched together 1,200 photos of the night sky into the composite you can zoom and browse at the site below.
Source: www.popsci.com
We always like to look forward to bigger and better tech, but NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, though it's been around the block, still holds a special place in every geek's heart. Now the freshly repaired ...
Sean My friend's little brother was asking me for help on finding approximate instantaneous acceleration from 3 data points on a rocket problem. But he's in Physics B, so I couldn't remember how to do it without derivatives. Calculus is a crutch.
Cash Sanders We could have stole fluffy!!! The chain was not really locked!! Fluffy is lucky we have grown up the ever so little bit!!! Class of '99 almost struck again!! Although, I think Fluffy might like OKC. By the way.... Nice new classroom!!! Thank you for making Physics Phun!! Your class is still to this date one of my favorites of all time! Keep up the great work and thanks again!!
Granger Meador Former student Joseph Sardashti, recalling the famous Edgerton photo on my classroom door of a bullet fired through an apple, sent me this great link to 30 more high speed bullet photographs.
Source: www.digitalpicturezone.com
It is almost impossible to capture a speeding bullet with your eye and the impact the bullet creates is even faster and happens within a blink of an eye.
Granger Meador My teaching schedule for 2009-2010: 2nd, 8:20-9:14, Inquiry Physics | 3rd, 9:19-10:13, AP Physics B | 4th, 10:18-11:12, Inquiry Physics | 5th, 11:17-12:11, AP Physics B | Tutorial, 12:16-12:41, Mondays and Wednesdays only
