Annual General Assembly 2006 - Dalian

Project Session 1

Maritime Physics: Developing Interactive Teaching Materials Connecting Physical Laws And Principals With Maritime Applications

Jaya Punglia, Ken Dobra, Ludmila Kisseleva-Eggleton,
Peter Hayes, Sam Pecota, Steven Browne

ABSTRACT

This paper presents preliminary results of an ongoing research project. We present working examples of Physics problems and classroom teaching presentations which are based on real life video clips of maritime activities and/or on routine activities performed by mariners navigating the ship. We discuss interdisciplinary connection between general education Physics and Mathematics courses and maritime subjects taken by maritime students.. We also present here a method of using video documentation of events in a maritime setting, and employing digital analysis of the video using inexpensive commercially available software called VideoPoint to obtain useful data. This data can be then successfully used by Physics instructors at Maritime universities in order to explain students the theoretical basis for motion demonstrated on the video and to produce their own maritime related activities for general Physics classrooms.

Keywords: general education; physics; maritime applications; software; video analysis; digital

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