Freaky Fzx Friday - ICE 2

Freaky Fzx Friday was a new thing this year and it's been quite popular so I'll be continuing it for years to come.  For our last installment of the year we'll reprise my favorite topic.

Toddlers love ice.  They play with the ice cubes in their drinks and love to suck on those plastic tubes filled with flavored sugar ice.  Silicone trays for shaped ice cubes make it even more fun.

apparently NOT recommended - choking hazard

Freaky Fzx Friday - Schrodinger's Pet

Schrodinger's cat is so popular she's on T-shirts.

dead AND alive

Since teeny tiny things don't obey Newton's Laws, different equations govern the quantum world of the amazingly small.  In the 1920s, quantum equations and experiments were leading physicists to conclude that a particle could exist in multiple quantum states simultaneously.  It was a difficult paradox that brought forth important questions.

Teach Fzx Tuesday - Video Substitute

Out for two weeks for shoulder surgery with no physics certified sub, I had to figure out a way to keep the class moving and give them good labs to do.  The topic was circuits.

I used the district provided iPad and iMovie to provide practical instruction on ammeter and voltmeter use.

How to Use an Ammeter

I put out a compare and contrast video on series vs. parallel circuits:

Freaky Fzx Friday - Cell Phones and Cancer

Grandma probably told you not to stand in front of the microwave and I've been told not to use my cell phone too much.  And to keep it in my pack, not my pants.

Articles have been written about cops with cancer from their radar guns.  Products are marketed to ameliorate the cancerous effects of electromagnetic waves.  Why all the fear?

When I check cancer.gov and mayoclinic.org I find carefully worded science speak that no average person could get through.  Their conclusion?

"no consensus"
"no one knows"

Scientists agree on climate change but medicine can't figure out whether cell phones cause cancer after decades of fear and studies?  Ironic.  I disagree with their conclusions.