Re: Lab Report

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

Sorry, since the subject was labs., I meant only the labs.

Which reminds me of the experience recounted by the Chair of a CC where I taught (70's?).
He went to a nearby U. to see how they taught the intro Phys. for majors.  The instructor
was lecturing on mechanics and used an air track.  He couldn't get the demo. to work
because he hadn't first leveled it, (initial failure on the part of the demo. person). I
don't know how many of the lectures the chair attended, but I do remember his saying that
he thought his podunk CC dept. was doing a much better job at LD teaching.

bc

P.s. the instructor is a laureate (admittedly probably a theorist, I've forgotten.)

Jack Uretsky wrote:

>         The undergraduate teaching was fine and was done by senior
> faculty.  The labs were another story.
>
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
>
> > Just as I thought, the more renowned (and expensive) the school the worse the
> > undergrad teaching.
> >
> > I have no complaints. (Went to UCSC when it was free -- incidental fee $57/ semester
> > -- and no class of more than ~ 15 after intro physics ~ 50.)
> >
> > bc  who retired from UCSC where such a report would initiate an investigation by the
> > dean.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jack Uretsky wrote:
> >
> > >         MIT
> > >
> > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> > >
> > > > Where did you people (HG & JU) go to school??
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > b c
> > > >
> > > > Hugh Haskell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > At 14:24 -0500 2/3/02, Stuart Leinoff wrote:
> > > > > > My son sent me the following URL with (I believe) a tongue-in-cheek example of
> > > > > > an undergraduate physics lab report.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm wondering if anyone else sees an element of truth in it?
> > > > > Having been through this exercise (not that particular expt., but the
> > > > > process described) many times, from both sides of the podium, I can
> > > > > sympathize completely. I just wish some of my students who suffered
> > > > > many of the same frustrations (as I did in trying to set up a lab
> > > > > exercise that had a chance of working), had had the guts to write
> > > > > their lab up in similar language.
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe if there were more lab reports of this nature, the quality of
> > > > > lab exercises might be improved.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hugh
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > > Hugh Haskell
> > > > > <mailto://haskell@ncssm.edu>
> > > > > <mailto://hhaskell@mindspring.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > (919) 467-7610
> > > > >
> > > > > Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to, Windows because they
> > > > > have to..
> > > > > ******************************************************
> > >
> > > --
> > > "But as much as I love and respect you, I will beat you and I will kill
> > > you, because that is what I must do.  Tonight it is only you and me, fish.
> > > It is your strength against my intelligence.  It is a veritable potpourri
> > > of metaphor, every nuance of which is fraught with meaning."
> > >                      Greg Nagan from "The Old Man and the Sea" in
> > >                      <The 5-MINUTE ILIAD and Other Classics>
>
> --
> "But as much as I love and respect you, I will beat you and I will kill
> you, because that is what I must do.  Tonight it is only you and me, fish.
> It is your strength against my intelligence.  It is a veritable potpourri
> of metaphor, every nuance of which is fraught with meaning."
>                      Greg Nagan from "The Old Man and the Sea" in
>                      <The 5-MINUTE ILIAD and Other Classics>