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Re: [Phys-l] index of refraction



The pendulum is very rich -- the title of a paper in AJP**: The pendulum--Rich physics from a simple system.

** 54 p. 512, ff. (Nelson & Olsson)


bc pendulum person

On 2009, May 13, , at 07:42, John Denker wrote:

I always thought that the main point of "rich context" problems is
that the students are supposed to rack their brains and think of little
bits of real-world information that they can bring to bear.