Re: [Phys-L] The traditional value of Pi is three!

[bernard cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

> On 2019/Mar/15, at 16:34, Anthony Lapinski <alapinski@pds.org> wrote:
>
> I'm in a high school. Not doing any "research." I let the chemists deal
> with precision. They spend so much time with sig figs, error analysis, etc.
> Kids find it overkill. Not fun. We should be turning kids onto science at
> young ages. I uses rounded values often -- gravity, planetary masses,
> specific heats, densities, speed of sound, speed of light, etc. Measuring g
> in classrooms is difficult if not impossible -- there are many human errors
> (timing, etc.), air resistance, rotational/inertial effects from the Earth,
> etc.



The exact point in "The pendulum—Rich physics from a simple system”  

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.14703  

g  within 1 part in 10k.   


bc   reminded of Robert Frost asked about the “boring” elements of poetry.  “We glory in it!”