Re: [Phys-l] What's in a Touch?

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Reminds me of this posted on PHYSLRNR:

	From: 	Robert Beichner <beichner@ncsu.edu>
	Subject: 	Re: MIT student opinion on active engagement
	Date: 	2010, November 03,  09:41:43 PDT
	To: 	PHYSLRNR@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU



Bob Beichner
NCSU Physics

PS Thanks to Bruce Sherwood for this joke:

How many physics grad students does it take to change a light bulb?
	Just one, but it takes them eight years to do it.

How many physics post docs does it take to change a light bulb
	Just one, but 300 apply for the job.

How many physics faculty members does it take to change a light bulb?
	CHANGE?



On Nov 3, 2010, at 11:50 AM, John Belcher wrote:

> Things do change
>
> http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N49/normandin.html 

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On 2010, Nov 05, , at 20:25, William Robertson wrote:

> And a personal experience: I was at a NARST (National Association for  
> Research in Science Teaching) conference and looked through a poster  
> session. One author, a relatively big name in science education, had a  
> mistake in his description of gases. He said that when you heat a gas,  
> the molecules "need more room and therefore expand." Now, I was young  
> and not famous (now old and not famous), so I respectfully asked him  
> if I could talk about what I saw as incorrect science in his  
> materials. He listened politely and then turned away to talk to  
> someone else, without any more acknowledgement. The published paper  
> later had the same error. So, it's not just textbook authors who have  
> a problem with getting the concepts straight.
>
> Bill