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E&M Labs URL



Hi all-
The lab instructions and labs 1&2 are now posted at:
www.hep.anl.gov/jlu/index.html. I'll post a few more as time permits.
Comments and cautions:
1. I quickly converted these files from
MSWord for Windows 2. The conversion looks OK except that the arrows
over some of the vector quantities turned to dots.
2. The text referred to is <Beyond the Mechanical Universe> (no longer in
print).
3. Students work in assigned groups.
4. Pay particular attention to Instructions 5 and 6. Students will
quickly work through the entire lab and get their answers recorded. The
first inadequate answer is marked from any student (like all the answers
were identically worded) is marked with a red "D". The group cannot
proceed past this answer until they have discussed it and all show an
understanding of the issue involved (it's easy to spot a group having
an "aha" expeerience), in a few well written sentences or a sketch. It is
this feature that keeps the weak students from getting by by just copying
from the leader.
5. When the group asks for help, the teacher gets the group dialogue going
by posing questions that stimulate thinking (NOT by lecturing or
explaining).
6. The labs are easy to correct because you're looking for the first weak
answer. I've done 30 labs in less than 1/2 hour.
7. I learned all this from Dick Hake and a few enthusiastic students.
Regards,
Jack
p.s. I have a feeling that there is something else that I promised to
post, but I don't remember what it is.
--
"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>