Teaching Resources

The following resources were made available to teachers participating in the Applied Physics Workshop by faculty from the Department of Physics at Purdue University Fort Wayne. All resources should be considered copyrighted by the authors unless otherwise noted. We encourage you to use these in your teaching and please reach out to let us know how they have been of benefit to you.

If you are interested in resources specific to the assembly of certain devices, such as files related to 3D printing or laser cutting, please contact the lead professor for more details.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Dr. Mark Masters developed the following resources:

• Lesson Plans
• Publication, A mechanical analog of nuclear magnetic resonance

Spectroscopy

Dr. Timothy Grove developed the following resources:

• Lesson Plans
• Publication, Using a shoebox spectrograph to investigate the differences between reflection and emission.

Atomic Force Microscopy

Dr. Merrell Johnson developed the following resources:

• Lesson Plans
• Publication, Exploring the cantilever: teaching tools for atomic force microscopy

Other resources

• Guide to Scanning Probe Microscopy (Stanford University)
• Probing What You Can't See (Stanford University) 

Interferometry

Dr. Gang Wang developed the apparatus for the workshop

Acoustic Levitation

Dr. Mark Masters and Justin Yoder developed the apparatus for the workshop

Lesson Planning

Dr. Matthew Perkins Coppola developed the following resources:

• Friday's PPT: PhysFESTT, Science Fairs, and Lesson Planning
• Lesson Plan template

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Teaching Lesson Plans

Participants in the Applied Physics Workshop produced the following lesson plans for the workshop apparatus.

Precession (NMR) - Mark Lenfestey, Homestead High School