In this talk, I share some strategies and my experience integrating these strategies without giving up my prized physics instruction time.
(Read more...) Talks & PublicationsConservation of Intellectual Momentum: Staying connected to the field of physics even if your job doesn’t make you. My four years of studying physics in undergrad had opened my mind to a way of thinking I had grown to love and didn’t want to give up. Would teaching provide the same intellectual stimulation I had enjoyed in college?
(Read more...) Talks & PublicationsDuring the 2017 INAAPT Spring Meeting, I listened to a talk about GlowScript as a way to create VPython animations online. I created the following projects just to learn the programming language and illustrate a couple physics concepts.
Talk given at the Spring Meeting of the Indiana Section of AAPT in April, 2016.
If an unstable particle used in a two-path interference experiment decays before reaching a detector, which-way information becomes available that reduces the detected interference fringe visibility.
(Read more...) Talks & PublicationsI have been teaching physics at Avon High School since 2013.
This website is a collection of projects—some related to my job and many not. Mostly, this website is just a
place for me to play around with html and other programming languages and trick myself into thinking that I
am being productive by doing so.
This website is built using hugo and a custom-coded theme.
Zachary J. Rohrbach
Physics Teacher
Avon High School
zjrohrbach@avon-schools.org