Local+Remote Lab Classes

Posted on 7 Jul 202016 Dec 2020 by Eric Myers

This article explains a potential way to teach physics lab classes in the time of COVID-19, in a way that gives students some hands-on experience with the equipment and preserves the collaborative ele... Read More

Home camera used to view a physics lab experiment.

Potential Use of Steerable Consumer Home Cameras for “local+remote” Laboratory Instruction

Posted on 12 Jun 20206 Jan 2021 by Eric Myers

In this article I report what I’ve learned so far about the possibility of using steerable consumer home monitoring cameras (“nanny cams”) to allow students to work together on labor... Read More

Using a Document Camera for ‘local+remote’ Instruction

Posted on 9 Jun 202014 Aug 2020 by Eric Myers

This article provides configuration information for using an in-classroom document camera so that the content it displays is available to both students in the classroom and those joining via video mee... Read More

Using Duo Security Two-Factor Security at SUNY New Paltz

Posted on 3 Sep 20199 Sep 2019 by Eric Myers

SUNY New Paltz is in the process of adding Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to their adminstrative computer systems, and I have been trying it out. This is a report on some of the things I’ve l... Read More

Visualization of the Cislunar Potential

Posted on 22 Jul 201927 Jun 2021 by Eric Myers

In the past few days I’ve been following the playback of the Apollo 11 mission in “real time” (delayed exactly 50 years) at https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/. Among all the news rel... Read More

Wooster Hall main staircase at noon on the Summer Solstice of 2019.

Summer Solstice 2019 in Wooster Hall

Posted on 21 Jun 201912 Jun 2020 by Eric Myers

As we have done in past years, a small group of those interested came to Wooster Hall to observe the skylight lights cross over the staircase at Solar Noon (at 12:58:16 EDT). This year the actual Sols... Read More

Cleaning Pennies with Taco Sauce

Posted on 28 Mar 201910 Nov 2024 by Eric Myers

I have been collecting old pennies for a science experiment. (The composition of the penny changed in 1982, which changed the weight slightly, and I will someday have a student exercise that makes... Read More

Vernal Equinox 2019

Posted on 25 Mar 201926 Mar 2019 by Eric Myers

What a difference a year makes. Last year I made a time-lapse video of the Vernal equinox in Wooster Hall by standing next to a wall and taking a photo about once a minute for an hour. This year I hav... Read More

YSC-4 Electronic Clock

Posted on 18 Jan 201927 Sep 2023 by Eric Myers

I’ve just completed building a small electronic clock from a kit, the YSC-4 kit from HiLetgo, which I was able to purchase from Amazon for under $9.1 My interest in this kit was to find some... Read More

Welding Ventilation Estimate

Posted on 9 Jan 201913 Jan 2019 by Eric Myers

I have been investigating the requirements for students to be able to weld on campus, which is needed for our Baja SAE team, for projects for our Engineering Senior Design course, and for other variou... Read More