Re: "How Things Work" Website

[Jim Green <JMGreen@sisna.com>]

Have list members looked at this site???  
Are you happy with the "explanations"?
Should students be led there?

Jim Green



At 10:35 AM 3/25/97 -0400, you wrote:
> > You might try the Virginia University (?) web site "How things work".  I
> > think it has microwaves in it.  I am not sure of the address.
> >
> > Tish Richey
>
> The site you are referring to is:
>
>                        http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/
>
> It is a webpage by Louis Bloomfield that is associated with his
> introductory physics book: "How Things Work:  The Physics of Everyday
> Life.":
>
>        Think of this site as a radio call-in program that's being held on the
>        WWW instead of the radio. If you ask how something works, using the
>        button below, I'll try to provide an explanation. You'll
>        find a more comprehensive discussion of many common objects in my
> book:
>        How Things Work: the Physics of Everyday Life. Feel free to create
> links

>