how to TEACH relativity and Q.M.?

[LUDWIK KOWALSKI <kowalskil@alpha.montclair.edu>]

On May 9, 1997 Lowell Herr wrote:

> I generally spend some time teaching relativity.  In an honors class 
> (now some years ago) I spent as much as six weeks going through several 
> books, of which the best was; Space and Time in Special Relativity 
> by N. David Mermin.
You are lucky to have good students. Most of my students have hard time
with classical physics. How can Q.M. and relativity be made meaningful
to them? Sure I can talk about all kinds of subjects, and I do, but 
teaching physics is much more than this. 
                                                Ludwik Kowalski