Senior Teaching Laboratory Specialist
Room 1017, New Physics Building
PO Box 118440, Department of Physics
University of Florida, Gainesville Fl. 32611-8440
Ph# 352-392-0488, Fax# 352-392-0524
mocko@phys.ufl.edu
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Senior Teaching Laboratory Specialist
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I work for the Department of Physics at the University of Florida as a Senior Teaching Laboratory Specialist designing, building and maintaining physics demonstration experiments for use in teaching. As part of my work (and with the terrific help of student assistants Eric Berry, Brad Murphy and Ben Miletic) I have created two major websites, the Physics Demonstrations website and the Physics Department Live Weather Station . I also continue to teach physics by answering student homework and laboratory questions for all beginning physics classes and have presented "Physics is Fun" science shows over the last ten years to roughly 25,000 elementary, middle and high school students throughout the State of Florida. Outside of work I'm an advanced amateur photographer (see some of my work below). I've also created a nice sculpture that stands in the living room of my house.
Background:
Born: July 15th, 1963, Jacksonville Fl.
Graduated Englewood High School, 1981, Jacksonville, Fl. (4th in Class
of 350)
Graduated Bachelor of Science with Honors, Physics Education, 1985,
University of Florida
Career Experience:
International Baccalaurette / Advanced Placement H.S. Physics Teacher,
Eastside H.S., Gainesville Fl. 1986-1990
Lab Specialist / Engineer, University of Florida Physics Department,
1990-Present.
Personal:
Marital Status: Married to Megan Elizabeth (Meece) Mocko, and we have two cats.....Elliot
and Garfield (They Abysinnians and brothers).
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These pictures were taken while I was traveling
on various vacations. They are just rough scans and the real images actually
look MUCH better than these scans.
John Mocko
2525 NW 50th Place
Gainesville, Fl. 32605
352-372-6449
mocko@phys.ufl.edu