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Secrets of Successful Science Projects
Amy Courtney, Michael Courtney
Over the past several years, the authors have served as teachers, qualified scientists, mentors, and/or parents on dozens of science projects. These projects ranged from elementary…
Impossible? Publication Quality Research with the Weakest 10% of Incoming Freshmen
Michael Courtney, Amy Courtney
Undergraduate research is widely regarded as a high impact practice. However, usually only the highest achieving students are rewarded with undergraduate research opportunities. Th…
Illuminating Fourier Series with Audacity
Amy C. Courtney, Michael W. Courtney
This paper briefly describes some simple techniques for illuminating Fourier series and Fourier analysis with the Audacity sound recording program. These techniques are easily appl…
EI Videos
Michael Courtney, Tom Slusher, Amy Courtney
The Quantitative Reasoning Center (QRC) at USAFA has the institution's primary responsibility for offering after hours extra instruction (EI) in core technical disciplines (mathema…
Sheep Collisions: the Good, the Bad, and the TBI
Michael Courtney, Amy Courtney
The title page of Chapter 9 in Fundamentals of Physics (Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, 8th Edition, p. 201) shows a dramatic photograph of two Big Horn sheep butting heads and prom…
Acoustic measurement of potato cannon velocity
Michael Courtney, Amy Courtney
This article describes measurement of potato cannon velocity with a digitized microphone signal. A microphone is attached to the potato cannon muzzle and a potato is fired at an al…