Last modified: 9/19/2007 5:51AM

Rob Salgado

Instructor of Physics (2006- )
Department of Physics
Syracuse University
201 Physics Building,
Syracuse NY 13244-1130 []
email: salgado@physics.syr.edu

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Roberto B. Salgado - presentations Roberto B. Salgado - teaching experience (syllabi)
Rob as Teacher	Rob as Researcher
Instructor of Physics (2006-present) Syracuse University Assistant Professor of Physics (2002-Katrina2005) Dillard University (Temporary) Assistant Professor of Physics (1999-2001) Truman State University Instructor (Summers 1992-1999) Syracuse University	Research Associate (2001-2002) SUNY Upstate Medical SUNY Medical Imaging Research Group Graduate Student [Relativity Theory] Syracuse University
Physics Pedagogy and Physics Education Rob's AAPT Presentations Teaching Relativity Relativistic pedagogy Visualizing Proper Time "lightclock diagrams" Spacetime Trigonometry The Galilean Limit visualrelativity.com - "New Ideas for Teaching Relativity" Teaching Electromagnetism Visualizing Electromagnetic Fields VRML VPython Visualizing Maxwell's Equations Maxwell's Equations via Differential Forms Teaching Mechanics Spacetime Diagrams for basic kinematics "A spacetime diagram is worth a thousand words."	Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Causal Structure and Causal Sets Workshop on Causal Sets (DIAS, Dec 2004) Curvature Tensors referenced in Heinicke's paper gr-qc/0012037 Quantum Mechanics The Quantum Measure gr-qc/9903015 Visualizing Tensors and Differential Forms (see Pedagogy) New Ideas for Teaching Relativity (see Pedagogy) Visualizing Proper Time physics/0505134

Rob as Teacher Rob as Researcher

Assistant Professor of Physics (2002-Katrina2005)
Dillard University

(Temporary) Assistant Professor of Physics (1999-2001)
Truman State University

Instructor (Summers 1992-1999)
Syracuse University

Rob's AAPT Presentations
Teaching Relativity
- Relativistic pedagogy
- Visualizing Proper Time "lightclock diagrams"
- Spacetime Trigonometry
- The Galilean Limit
- visualrelativity.com - "New Ideas for Teaching Relativity"
Teaching Electromagnetism
- Visualizing Electromagnetic Fields
  VRML VPython
- Visualizing Maxwell's Equations
- Maxwell's Equations via Differential Forms
Teaching Mechanics
- Spacetime Diagrams for basic kinematics
  "A spacetime diagram is worth a thousand words."

Causal Structure and Causal Sets
- Workshop on Causal Sets (DIAS, Dec 2004)
Curvature Tensors
- referenced in Heinicke's paper
  gr-qc/0012037
Quantum Mechanics
- The Quantum Measure gr-qc/9903015
Visualizing Tensors and Differential Forms (see Pedagogy)
New Ideas for Teaching Relativity (see Pedagogy)
- Visualizing Proper Time physics/0505134