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Third Formers Participate in Physics Fights
Students in Woodberry Forest School's conceptual physics course, along with mentors from Honors Physics, spent the afternoon on May 21, 2017, presenting and defending their solutions to physics problems to outside examiners. The "fights" were the culmination of a final project requiring them to develop experiments to test their theories about problems involving gravity and velocity, circuitry, and energy.
Third-form physics teachers Colin Manning and Alex Tisch prepared the students for their presentations. "Without their teaching all year," says science chair Greg Jacobs, "our students would never have been prepared to undertake such a difficult exam project." Greg also thanked the forty-four examiners, which included alumni, faculty, students, friends, and parents, who engaged with the seventy-three young physicists and evaluated their efforts. "The examiners consistently spoke about how well-prepared our students were, both in terms of presentation and in terms of physics knowledge," Greg says.
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