Re: interesting pic for a classroom exercise?

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

 From someone who hasn't passed the CBEST, even on the second attempt!

"was looking for something completely different on a web browser search and
happened
to find this instead."

shortened to one word; serendipitous(ly)  cf. "Chance favours the prepared
mind."

(none so unique as this one perhaps).

something is unique or not (cannot be compared)  use "unusual" instead

My lab technique is not very good.  I got 29 miles using a half degree, 200',
and the Tan. A re-measurement 27+ miles.

Great exercise, especially with L.'s addition

bc


P.s. try http://homepage.interaccess.com/~homewood/serendip.htm

P.p.s. This exercise is similar to the astronomy lab. exercise to detmn. the
height of mountains on the moon from their shadows.



Stefan Jeglinski wrote:

> > Please consider sending your wonderful picture (it's great:
> > http://perso.club-internet.fr/legault/s010113.jpg
> > and the a summary of this PHYS-L discussion
> > as a contributed note to The Physics Teacher.  Contributor's info is
> > found under publications at http://www.aapt.org/  and if it helps I
> > I have three publications stemming from PHYS-L discussions that were/are
> > accepted for publication (thanks for helping my career, ladies & gentlemen).
> >
> > I'll be using your picture in my PHY111 class when we hit angular measure.
> > Thanks again, and I strongly urge you to publish both the photo and your
> > analysis; I KNOW TPT would be interested...
>
> Thanks for the plug, but it's not my picture. I can't even remember
> how I ran across it - I think it was one of those "was looking for
> something completely different on a web browser search and happened
> to find this instead."
>
> I would not mind summarizing and submitting, but what is the
> editorial policy toward such use of other's material? At the very
> least I would need to get permission, and perhaps something more if
> the photographer decides to copyright it.
>
> The photographer is apparently an amateur astronomer with a CCD, so
> this discussion may even make it back to him :-) See
> <http://perso.club-internet.fr/legault/> for more interesting shots
> (none so unique as this one perhaps).
>
> Stefan Jeglinski