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Do you remember the Peanuts strip several; years ago in which Snoopy isIn fact I used this just the other day. I think it is a great example to
lying prone on his roof looking down into his dish. He says "Objects under
water always look deeper." This confused the hell out of my students when I
tried to correct it.
poj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Haskell" <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Comic books as classroom resource
> Comic books and comic strips have provided lots of fodder for physics
> teachers over the years. Calvin and Hobbes has lots of
> physics-related stuff, some of it quite droll. So does Foxtrot. I am
> particularly partial to the Roadrunner cartoons. Wile E. Coyote has
> so many non-physical things happen to him that you can confront
> almost every student misconception in any one episode. And all the
> super-heroes do so many things that lend themselves to interesting
> calculations, that I'm not surprised that someone has finally decided
> to build a whole course around comics.
>
> Hugh
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> Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to, Windows because they
> have to..
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