UMD physics professor, Dr. Margaret Elmer-Dixon teaches introductory calculus-based physics with slingshots and stuffed animals. This course is created as hands on as possible for students to solve quintessential physics; which is the hunter and the monkey problem. The activity is meant to learn how the theory correlates to application in real life. For example, "if a hunter is aiming at a monkey while it lets go of the tree, the hunter should hit the monkey midair," says Dr. Elmer-Dixon.
Bulldogs get physical!