Author Description

"This is the third edition of the Activity Guide developed as part of the Workshop Physics Project. Although this Guide contains text material and experiments, it is neither a textbook nor a laboratory manual. It is a student workbook designed to serve as the foundation for a two-semester, calculus-based introductory physics course sequence that is student-centered and focuses on hands-on learning. The activities have been designed using the outcomes of physics education research and honed through years of classroom testing at Dickinson College. The Guide consists of 28 units that interweave written descriptions with activities that involve predictions, qualitative observations, explanations, equation derivations, mathematical modeling, quantitative experimentation, and problem solving. Throughout these units, students make use of a flexible set of computer-based data-acquisition tools to record, display, and analyze data, as well as to develop mathematical models of various physical phenomena"--