RE: [Fhsst-physics] New members!

[Andy Higginbotham]

Hi all,

Thought I'd join Andrew and introduce myself to the team.
I'm a 4th year undergraduate student at Oxford University in the UK.  Im am
currently studying for my masters taking major options in 'condensed matter
physics' and 'quantum information processing, lasers and optics.' Assuming
my impending finals (this month) don't go too badly I should be studying for
my doctorate at Oxford in 'high intensity laser matter interactions' (i.e.
v. big lasers...) next year.
My experience with communication comes in the form of lecturing, having
given a number of invited lectures to school children over the past two
years.  We'll have to wait and see if that experience can be converted into
good quality text! 

I look forward to hearing more from you all as the project progresses.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: Grichting, Andrew
[mailto:address@hidden
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Sent: 03 June 2005 23:32
To: FHSST Physics discussion list
Subject: RE: [Fhsst-physics] New members!


Salutations All,

IntrO; I'm a Teacher of Physics based in Melbourne Australia, teaching at a
major state High School (Balwyn High School - www.balwynhs.vic.edu.au). I'm
inovleved in what we call the Rural Physics Project, providing support to
isolated Teachers and Students of physics. 

I'm plkeased to be part of this project, even though what I may offer may be
interrupted by the demands of 150 odd students from time to time. I'll start
work on the EMspec as soon as I've perused the current books to get an idea
of style and level.

The school I am working at has been working on providing our own notes and
textbook-supplement for the last 5 years; we found that the local TB
publishers had rather strong opinions on what should be in the course - an
opinion that seems to be at significant variance from the curriculum
providers. I can make these notes available if you'd like to see them,
however they are more of a lecture support nature as against a
building-blocks up TB approach.

At this point is there any sort of timeline? Guidelines? Editing process?
Style Documents?

All the Best, and glad to be working with you,
Andrew Grichting.


-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden on behalf of
Mark Horner
Sent: Sat 6/4/2005 6:33 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Fhsst-physics] New members!
 
Hi everyone

I would like to welcome 4 new members to the list:

Neil Govender
Andrew Grichting
Michael Banks
Andy Higginbotham

Physics had slowed significantly 2 months ago but we now have 6 active 
members which is great (and around that many sections to do before we
enter the editing phase :) The other two active members are Gerald 
Wigger and myself.

Neil arrived first and he's taken on the transformers section. I 
reviewed everyones emails and we require content on:

* Electromagnetic Spectrum
* Photoelectric Effect
* Magnets and Magnetic Fields (but not EM) - so things like what is a
   magnetic, info about the poles, the earth's magnetic field etc. Some
   of this is written but it needs work
* Optics - the whole chapter is only being started so if anyone wants
   one of these sections they are up for grabs but require some LaTeX
   and PSTricks knowledge
* Gerald is working on the Heat and Properties of Matter chapter but
   there  are sections in that chapter could be written too.

How about:

Michael - can I give you a section from optics as you know PSTricks?
Andy - can I give you one of the Heat and Properties of Matter section 
that Gerald hasn't started yet
Andrew - can I give you the Electromagnetic spectrum and Photoelectfic 
Effect sections?

Please shout if thats not good for you or if you have any other 
preferences! I will send more detailed descriptions for each of the 
sections after getting an update from Gerald.

Cheers,

Mark


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