Theodore Hodapp's home page
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Theodore Hodapp Email: thodapp@hamline.edu
Professor of Physics
Phone: (651) 523-2293
Hamline University
Fax: (651) 523-2620
Hamline University, #199 Office: 117 Robbins
1536 Hewitt Avenue Lab: 115 Robbins
St. Paul, MN 55104
Hello there,
want to send me a message via Email
Want to search the web?
You can also upload a file to my FTP server (if it is running).
Want to find me? Here is my schedule.
Here are some interesting places to look for net-stuff. Hope you enjoy them.
- NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
- JPL (The Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)
- AAS (American Astronomical Society)
- Eclipse paths from NASA.
- NSSDC. The National Space Sciences Data Center. Lots of interesting things to browse about space.
- Lots of Weather Images.
- View the Earth as it appears right now. You can select cloud cover, topo-map, or IR, and view the earth from any location (on the moon for example).
- This link will draw the current solar system. There are many options. Check it out.
- Location of most of the world's satellites. This is a collection
of databases. It includes TV,
Amateur,
GPS,
Weather, and others.
- Look here for Sky and Telescope's home page.
- Want to try and find the MIR space station from St. Paul or Minneapolis (You can also find observing times here for other locations)? This will tell you where to look.
- Another place for looking at transits of Space Objects.
- The CNBC (Center for Neural Basis of Cognition)
- A FAQ sheet on Neural nets.
- A collection of papers by Shimon Edelman on applications of neural nets to object recognition.
- A collection of sites on neural nets.
. A singing group I belong to. Look here to find out
who we are and where we will be singing.
- The other instrument I sometimes
try to play, the English Concertina.
Invented by a physicist back in the early 1800's.
- Here is a way to notate music and turn it into the postscript printer encryption language. It is called abc. You can find a number of useful links here to notate music.
- Here is a collection of folk tunes written out (mostly jigs and reels). The Nottingham Music Database.
- This site doesn't allow you to see the text yet, but maybe someday... It is called the Digital Tradition. Looks like a big collection of music
for folk songs.
- Some tunes from Scandinavia and the
UK.
- Here are the words and snippets of recordings to some bardic songs.
- Another huge collection of folk songs from many countries. Good
sea-shanties, English and American tunes as well.
- Yet another good site with words and tunes to many folksongs.
- Some other tunes from the same region.
- Looking for Scandinavian music? Try Norsk Ltd. They import a lot of hard to
find music.
- A listing of concerts and festivals in Norway.
- Another unusual folk-instrument is the nyckelharpa. This is a somewhat large vesion of the fiddle with keys (Swedish
word: Nyckel) which fret 3 of the 4 bow-able strings (not unlike a Hurdy-Gurdy). Want to find out more? Take a look at the
The American Nyckelharpa Association homepage.
- The Hardanger fiddle. This page is a link to
the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America (HFAA), which promotes the music and culture surrounding the playing of this
unusual Norwegian instrument.
- Here is a sample of hardanger fiddle music from Loretta Kelley (285kB). Loretta is one of
the best Hardingfele players this side of the Atlantic, and plays for dancers and listeners across the country. This snippet is
from her cassette, "Dansekveld" which means 'Dance Evening'. It is the first part of a springar from Telemark entitled
"Jå
le-Ragnhild".
- One of the foremost players in all of Norway is Knut Buen (376kB). This recording is also
of a dance from Telemark, but this
time it is a gangar, or walking tune (springar is more closly translated as running). This tune is called Sandsdalsgangaren
and is from the first of his collection of tapes for dancing called "Spel til dans" (playing for dancing).
Dancing to either of these fine musicians is a treat beyond words! If you are interested in learning this or one of the
related dances, pop me an Email, and I will let you know when classes are
starting around here or around where you are if I know of any. Both of these performers travel and give workshops from time
to time.
- Here is a copy of the new standards for
Initial
Teacher licensure in Science for the State
of Minnesota.
- Hamline has introduced Digital Video Processing to its undergraduate Physics laboratories. Here are some of the things
we have developed which might be useful to you if you are thinking of implementing video in a laboratory setting. Listed
below are the macros we use in conjuction with NIH Image or their
FTP site. NIH Image is a wonderful
and easy to use program developed by Wayne Rasband at the National Institutes of Health (Your tax dollars at work!). Also
included here are some videos we have taken of ordinary kinematic events. Before you downloading these, be warned that these
movies are not ".mpg" movies, but stacks or sequences of TIFF images. You will need a program like NIH-Image to view them.
Also note, that they are somewhat large!! You have been warned!
- A set of Kinematics macros for use with NIH Image. These macros provide a way to
sort stacks of images, split odd/even frame images (for fast moving objects) and acquire data points from them. There are
also a few macros which make using the stacks (of images) easier. (7KB)
- A movie showing a Ball toss. Basically your standard
projectile motion type problem.
The neat thing here is showing the separation of x and y coordinates. One can easily see this point by plotting pixel
data for x and y positions versus time. The x-coordinate information gives a nice constant velocity, and the y-coordinate
gives a parabola. (3200KB!!) --note-- this file is compressed and bin-hexed. The expanded file is about the same size as
the .hqx version. You can also find this file in Wayne Rasband's
NIH Image repository.
- A set of Simulation programs in quantum mechanics. Lots of fun
and some good explanations of confusing physics.
- Project Kaleidascope
- The NSTA (National Science Teachers Association).
- Or The MSTA (Minnesota Science Teachers Association).
- Interested in the National Conferenes on Undergraduate Research? NCUR has
a home base here where one an find out whats up for this year,etc...
- AIP's Physics Education News. An online journal of
information related to physics education.
- A set of resources for Physics Education.
- Another set of resources for Physics Education.
- Context Rich Problems in kinematics and dynamics from the University
of Minnesota.
- The University of Minnesota Physics Education Group home page.
Here is where to find the most recent updates to context-rich problems, and group problem-solving techniques.
- A computer-supported learning environment idea CPU (Constructing Physics
Understanding).
- Museums and magnet schools. A gathering of schools and science musemus (mostly)
which have formed the "Science Learning Network". This is a collection of some of their resources.
- Socratic Dialogue Labs. A technique used in aiding student
understanding of physics concepts through questions.
- The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. This is a collection of lesson plans, materials
and resources for science and math education at the K-12 level.
- The Contemporary Physics Education Project CPEP. A listing of internet
resources for teaching science.
- The Teachers Guide. A comprehensive list of resources related to
standards, grants, and services provided by the US Dept. of Education. Included is much of "Goals 2000".
- VPW. Video Placement Worldwide provides free educational materials to teachers in the
form of video tapes, manuals, lesson plans, etc. Go here to register if you are a teacher.
- The Comprehensive Conceptual Curriculum for Physics or (C3P) is a project for
alternative types of conceptual physics curricula.
- Here is SciMath MN. A collaboration in the State of
Minnesota to look at teacher certification and other issues as they effect Science and Math.
- Interested in the Fulbright scholars program?
- Here is a site for The Modeling Workshop Project. A collection of
stuff related to helping High-school physics instruction (other disciplines too!)
- A great Teachers (and student's) reference: The Why Files. This is a
collection of information on a variety of science-related topics of interest to just about anyone.
- CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research)
- Here is a listing of a large number of Lecture Demos
compiled by folks at the University of Maryland. Lots of cool ideas.
- An NSF funded project, the NSTA's Scope, Sequence & Coordination Project
is a set of micro units for high-scool instruction.
- Here is a collection of electronics experiments compiled by HP. Lots of
stuff from basic to very advanced.
- Even more links to educational resources.
Workshop Physics:
- Want to build your own Karate Test Stand? Here are some photos of
the one Jim Pridgeon (our Lab Supervisor) and I designed. Feel free to write us with questions about it.
- How about visiting the Workshop Physics homepage? Find
out what is new in this unique curriculum.
- Here is Vernier Software. They manufacture probes, software and
interfaces for activity-based labs.
- PASCO is one of the largest manufactures of hardware for introductory labs. Here is
their web page.
- AIP (American Institute of Physics)
- APS (American Physical Society)
- AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers)
- SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering)
- OSA (Optical Society of America)
- NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- A page about how the United States tells Time.
- Set your clock by the current UTC (coordinated universal
time).
- CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research)
- DOE
equipment
- AJP (American Journal of Physics)
- The PACS (Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme). Used to classify papers
for publication in Physics.
- Physics News Update, a service of AIP with the latest physics news.
- What's New. A weekly column (A sattirical look at the funding and research issues
concerning Physics: highly recommended reading).
- The Los Alamos E-print archive. Which contains electronic abstracts for many physics journals.
- A large collection of Physics WWW resources. This site collects almost all known web links involving Physics.
- A link to the Nobel Prize. The organization, the prize, its founder, etc...
- A large collection of Physics resources, departments, etc.
- The USENET Physics FAQ. A neat collection of physics
puzzles and other clever information.
- A collection of questions about just about anything. Ask your own too! It's How Things Work.
- The Research Corporation provides funding on a small level to researchers in the
chemical and physical sciences.
- Federal money availble through the NSF.
- EHR. Education and Human Resources Division.
- DUE Program guidlines. Division of Undergraduate Education, Program
guidlines (includes ILI, faculty enhancement, curriculum development, etc.)
- A new electronic publication of advances in physics: The Net Advance of Physics. More advanced stuff, but hopefully current stuff!
- TIPTOP. The Internet Pilot TO Physics. It claims to have every
conference listed here. Well maybe... It also has job listings and ocasional news flashes.
- Science explained?? Check out the whyfiles. Here is a collection of
contemporary science questions explained at an easily understandable level.
- Computational Resources:
- The Beowulf Project. This project is designing
software to run computationally intense problems on PC-class machines. They have achieved >1GFlop on Pentium-based
machines for less that $50,000.
- Sherry Foss (89). Got her Ph.D. at the
University of Minnesota (1997) and is now working (I think) at Seagate.
- Steve Boege (90). Completed his Ph.D. and was working on
terawatt lasers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab (SLAC) in California -zap-.
- Ben Bard (91). A former graduate student at Penn State in Acoustics. He recently completed his Ph.D.
- Heather Henneman (92). Former Peace Corps volunteer and now a graduate of the Civil Engineering program at the University
of Minnesota.
- Joel Parriott (92). Completed his Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and is now on the staff of the National Research
Council in Washington D.C.
- Jason Besky (93). Now works in Durango, Colorado as "Mr. Internet" (or
so his SO tells me) for Fort Lewis College.
- Travis (Novotny) Calef (93). Now working with computers at Global Maintech. A small computer company here in the Twin Cities.
- Matt Johnson (93). Now a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in Chemical Engineering.
- Greg U'ren (93). Off to sunny California, where he is a graduate
student in surface science at UCLA.
- Thang Huynh (94). Thang is working at Cyberoptics in Minneapolis, a company that develops machine vision systems.
- Kris Kainz (94). Now a Physics graduate student at Rice
University in Texas (and a long way from the iron range). I think he is now working at Brookhaven national Labs on some high
energy thing... probably related to some earlier work in the Tower-Sudan mine.
- Neill Johnson (94). Niell is working for a local electronics firm here in Minnesota.
- Maija (Niska) Besky (94). Now being a Mom in southern Colorado. And
probably a lot more too!
- Olena Sinkevich (94). Also a grad student at Rice, but in Mathematics.
- Maryanne Domm (96). Now at the University of Arizona
studying Physics.
- Amy (Deutsch) Tix (97). She is now working as a distance learning teacher at the University of Minnesota's
Cyber-learning project for K-8 students who can't attend classes for various reasons.
- Matt Howard (98). Matt is working for 3M in the Microreplication Technology Center in Petaluma, CA.
- Andrew (Drew) Ness (98). Drew is a grad student in Physics at the University of Rochester in New York.
- Chad Stelzig (98). Chad is in a graduate program in Electrical engineering at the University of Chicago.
- Jon Hunter (99). Jon is now off to a life of service and adventure. Destination TBA!
- Information on On Being a Scientist, a bit of information from the National Academy of Sciences on careers in science.
- Summer Opportunities for Research for undergraduates.
- Looking for information about career planning in science and engineering? Stop at the
Career Planning Center. This web site has info gathered from many places and put together by the National
Academy of Sciences.
- The NSF funds a number of summer research "institutes" called REU sites.
this is a listing of the sites from all disciplines.
- MSDS (Material saftey data sheets).
- Find a map to alomst anywhere in the US.
- Information on Co-Housing and the Co-Housing movement.
- Merit Pay debate on the Coucil on Undergraduate Research list-server
- A WWW virtual library. This has lots of interesting pointers to all sorts of places. Check it out.
- A guide to assembling HTML documents.
- Have you had your daily Dilbert?
- A list of Library collections. Including Hamline's,
the University of Minnesota, and others around the state.
- First Search. Log in and use the library.
- Political Action? Women Organizing for Change is an orginization which highlights issues
relevant to women (which are often relevant to us all!). If you are interested in Social Justice work, check them out.
- Here are some thoughts on Proposal writing by Jeanne
Narum, the director of Project Kaleidoscope.
- How about some FAX activism? At this site you can send a FAX to congress or
the whitehouse on various political issues (not for the conservatively minded though!).
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