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einsteinAlbert Einstein: Person of the Century He was the iconic 20th century scientist, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliché in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in salons from Berlin to Hollywood. Yet he was unfathomably profound - the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.

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Nancy A. Woods

Instructor, Physics & Mathematics

DMACC Boone Campus  =

1125 Hancock Drive

Boone, IA 50036

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Telephone

 515-433-5061 or

Toll Free 800-362-2127 Boone Campus Ext. 5061

Fax

 515-433-5033

Office Location

 Room 224

Office Hours

Lunch time is open in my schedule—stop by!

By Appointment—Please contact me!

E-mail

nawoods@dmacc.edu

 

Welcome to Physics and Mathematics at the Des Moines Area Community College Boone Campus! DMACC has articulation agreements that make these courses transferable to most universities (for example Physics 213 at DMACC transfers to Iowa State University as Physics 221). In my classroom I believe in a more "quality verses quantity" technique of instruction. Don't let this fool you! You will be required to do a lot of work both in the classroom as well as outside the classroom! In physics there are weekly labs, in-class assignments, homework, exams, and projects. In mathematics there are in-class problems, homework problems, and projects. Imagine actually learning physics! Imagine really understanding mathematics! These are not scary subjects…just ones that require you to focus and study. I hope that you come to class prepared to learn some really great things. See you soon!

Nancy Woods

P.S.  Do you want to see a picture of our physics lab? We recently remodeled and I thought you would enjoy viewing our facilities! J

2010 Iowa Regional PTK Convention Information Center

  ««Iowa Region Phi Theta Kappa««

ü Phi Theta Kappa – Tau Phi Chapter

International Honors Society for Two-Year Colleges

I am Boone Campus' faculty advisor for Phi Theta Kappa, the Honors Society for two-year colleges.  Would you like information about our chapter?  Would you like information about the upcoming Iowa Regional Conference of Phi Theta Kappa?  Please contact me as soon as possible.

ExperpixIs it 2:00 a.m. and you wish you could get your physics questions answered? You could always go to Ask Dr. Science! This is a fun site that you may find useful.

ALSO:  Free on-line tutoring can be found at http://www.smarthinking.com This is a 24-hour tutoring service for you!  Give it a try!

 

HEY! Here is a fun site that shows a lot of great (and easy) physics experiments that you can do on the Internet or at home! This shows that physics really is fun! Enjoy the fun at http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/explore/physics.htm

 

General Information about Nancy Woods

 Personal Education:

BS - Physics, University of Nebraska at Omaha

BA - Math, University of Nebraska at Omaha

MS - High Energy Physics, Iowa State University

MSM - Mathematics, Iowa State University

PhD (pursuing) - Education, Iowa State University

 Courses Taught (Course Competencies):

Survey of Physical Science (PHYL 106)

College Physics (PHYL 111 & PHYL 112)

Classical Physics (PHYL 121 & PHYL 122)

Calculus (MATH 129 & MATH 130)

Math for Elementary Educators (MATH 118)

Business Calculus (MATH 122)

Trigonometry (MATH 123)

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Course Syllabi

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