Jan Mader, Mary Winn, 2012. "Acknowledgments", Teaching Physics for the First Time, Jan Mader, Mary Winn
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The authors would like to thank Alan Gibson for providing endless support and encouragement. Without Al’s persistence and his work through the AAPT Publications Committee, the book would never have been completed. We also thank Mary Beth Monroe for working with the members of the Publications Committee as they oversaw the project and made many helpful suggestions; the Publications Committee, for continuing to support the several versions of the book; and the High School Committee, for seeing the need for this book and supporting it to completion.
The authors would like to thank Alan Gibson for providing endless support and encouragement. Without Al’s persistence and his work through the AAPT Publications Committee, the book would never have been completed. We also thank Mary Beth Monroe for working with the members of the Publications Committee as they oversaw the project and made many helpful suggestions; the Publications Committee, for continuing to support the several versions of the book; and the High School Committee, for seeing the need for this book and supporting it to completion.
Our sincere thanks to Dr. Richard B. Minnix and Dr. D. Rae Carpenter, Jr., long-time professors of physics at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va. We thank them for inspiring us to love demonstrations, teaching us how to do demonstrations and use them in our classrooms, and allowing us to reproduce some of the demonstrations from their book, The Dick and Rae Physics Demo Notebook. Hundreds of teachers who were trained by Dick and Rae, and thousands of people who were entertained by the demo shows they gave to children of all ages can attest to the dedication and expertise of these two wonderful teachers.
We want to express our appreciation to Dr. Roy Unruh, Professor Emeritus, University of Northern Iowa, for granting us permission to use and modify materials that were developed via his National Science Foundation (NSF) PRISMS Project. Dr. Unruh reinforced the learning cycle approach to physics instruction, and he has inspired physics instructors worldwide to hands-on-minds-on learning. We are greatly indebted to Dr. Richard Olenick, professor of physics at University of Dallas, Irving, Tex. As principal investigator for the NSF C3P, Comprehensive Conceptual Curriculum for Physics, he granted us permission to use and modify materials within C3P for Teaching Physics for the First Time. We are very fortunate to have had the support of Dr. Unruh and Dr. Olenick in this endeavor.
Many, many thanks to Dr. Robert Williamson, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., and to Willis Garrett, retired physics teacher, Waterford High School, Waterford, Mich., for reading and correcting tremendous amounts of material.