I didn't expect to be teaching physics when I first entered graduate school at Kansas State University in 1970. But plans change, and I went half way around the world to teach high-school students in Laos as soon as I finished my PhD. That just lasted a year, because my school was shut down when the government was in upheaval in 1975. Back in the States, I taught at ECU for a couple of years, then at a private school in Oklahoma City for more than a decade, and finally ended up at NCSSM for 20 years before I retired in 2010. But now I'm back teaching the AP Physics sequence for the NCSSM Online program. Retirement doesn't mean you have to stop doing what you enjoy. And teaching online means that you can teach from anywhere. I live in Colorado now.

At NCSSM, I taught all the introductory physics courses and the AP courses at one time or another. I also taught high-speed photography. I started doing that in 1984, and I've been teaching the subject and giving workshops and presentations ever since. We'll be using some high-speed images and videos in this course from time to time.

Loren Winters