Maybe next time you could bring in a small aquarium
and let them see for themselves.
By the way, does anyone know where I could find a
copy of said comic strip?
Julie Montgomery
-----Original Message-----
From: pojhome [mailto:pojhome@SWBELL.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:24 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Comic books as classroom resource
You're absolutely right, Herb. Snoopy was wrong (or Charles Shultz was
wrong) but my students were convinced that since his comment appeared in
print it must be right. That's why I had such a hard time trying to
explain
the true physics of it.