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101. Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence #2 (score: 13)
Author: Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:24:38 -0500 (CDT)
Many of the movers and shakers among the generation of pysics teachers that I encountered in graduate school were products of the Sommeerfeld Lectures, given on a ski slope prior to the fternoon skii
/archives/2011/7_2011/msg00146.html (11,100 bytes)

102. Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence #2 (score: 13)
Author: Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:31:36 -0500 (CDT)
Sorry. The last sentence shuld end with: preserved on videotape and available somewhere. Regards. Jack "Trust me. I have a lot of experience at this." General Custer's unremembered message to his men
/archives/2011/7_2011/msg00147.html (11,914 bytes)

103. Ashamed it is physicists and not learning scientists! (score: 13)
Author: Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:21:15 -0700
If you reply to this long (9 kB) post please don't hit the reply button unless you prune the copy of this post that may appear in your reply down to a few relevant lines, otherwise the entire already
/archives/2011/7_2011/msg00200.html (11,330 bytes)

104. Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence #2 (score: 13)
Author: CalvinKalman <Calvin.Kalman@Concordia.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:52:06 -0400
You can't argue on the basis of outliers such as Bill Gates. There were undoubtedly a few of Feynman's students at Caltech who were tremendously inspired by the lectures. Best wishes Calvin _/_/_/_/_
/archives/2011/7_2011/msg00114.html (9,207 bytes)

105. Lecture Isn't Effective: More Evidence #2 (score: 13)
Author: carmelo@pacific.net.sg
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:40:15 +0800
Note that DISCOVER magazine chose The Feynman Lectures on Physics as one of the 25 greatest science books of all time. Besides, Feynman's characteristic humor and insightful explanations elevate the
/archives/2011/7_2011/msg00118.html (9,386 bytes)

106. About the "why" and "how" questions. (score: 13)
Author: Moses Fayngold <moshfarlan@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:24:12 -0800 (PST)
I was following the discussion about the "Why" and "How" questions, feeling myself unable to add anything that had not been already said. But yesterday I encountered an episode that turned my attenti
/archives/2010/12_2010/msg00317.html (12,410 bytes)

107. Microwave door. (score: 13)
Author: brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:29:17 -0600
On 2010, Dec 23, , at 08:24, Moses Fayngold wrote: /snip/ I personally have no idea of "Why" and "How" this happened. Of course, I could resort to considering this as a divine message from some myste
/archives/2010/12_2010/msg00352.html (12,408 bytes)

108. Microwave door. (score: 13)
Author: Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:35:45 -0800
All of b's suppositions except deferred are invalid as they are enclosed in steel. i.e. cap. and short. So all that's left is running on mt. I understand (claimed by, IIRC, JD) that the modern ovens
/archives/2010/12_2010/msg00353.html (12,255 bytes)

109. Street-Fighting Mathematics (score: 13)
Author: Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:19:40 -0700
The 29 March 2010 edition of "MIT news" carries a report "Rough calculations: Sanjoy Mahajan's (2010) new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-an
/archives/2010/3_2010/msg00234.html (7,420 bytes)

110. C & C Trajectories (score: 13)
Author: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:25:27 -0700
There are additional layers to this puzzle that haven't been discussed yet. The problem is that the question is either open to interpretation, or at best highly sensitive to the details of the wordin
/archives/2008/6_2008/msg00091.html (10,598 bytes)

111. Mary Burgan's Defense of Lecturing (score: 13)
Author: Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:07:58 -0800
Out of consideration for Phys-L's self-appointed style czar Brian Whatcott, I shall omit my usual plea to forgo hitting the reply button and thereby needlessly resending this already archived 19 kB m
/archives/2007/02_2007/msg00229.html (20,788 bytes)

112. simulations, was ADVICE ON LAB EQUIPMENT (score: 13)
Author: Ludwik Kowalski <kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:10:23 -0500
On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:47 AM, John Clement wrote: Well, the interesting part of the AJP article was that students who had not interacted with equipment could wire a circuit faster. Would that qualify
/archives/2006/12_2006/msg00048.html (7,571 bytes)

113. Fwd: Weight vs mass (score: 13)
Author: jbellina <jbellina@saintmarys.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:29:09 -0400
Here is the second response from Hopos...Descartes has a role. joe Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D. Professor of Physics Saint Mary's College Notre Dame, IN 46556 Begin forwarded message: From: John Fox
/archives/2006/10_2006/msg00462.html (6,628 bytes)

114. nifty pendulum, conservation, et cetera (score: 13)
Author: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:23:15 -0400
Bob LaMontagne wrote: I don't mean to hijack this thread, Not a problem. The content of this thread has been as much about history as anything else (although one might not know it from the Subject: l
/archives/2006/06_2006/msg00004.html (11,049 bytes)

115. nifty pendulum, conservation, et cetera (score: 13)
Author: "Polvani, Donald G." <donald.polvani@ngc.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:06:15 -0400
Regarding Galileo, John Denker wrote: It's spooky reading Galileo's 1638 book _On Two New Sciences_. Galileo died a year before Newton was born, but much of Galileo's book reads like a letter to Newt
/archives/2006/06_2006/msg00007.html (11,534 bytes)

116. Lightning Rods (score: 13)
Author: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:30:24 -0700
On 3-Jun-06 Michael Edmiston wrote: First I am going to describe what many physics books and physicists say about lightning rods, and then I am going to present some more recent things I have read, a
/archives/2006/06_2006/msg00078.html (6,939 bytes)

117. entertainment (score: 13)
Author: Pat Viele <ptv1@CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:43:08 -0500
<html> <body> I had the pleasure of seeing Tom perform at the AAPT meeting in Albuquerque and highly recommend the play. It is unfortunate that it conflicts with the winter meeting of AAPT.<br><br> S
/archives/2005/12_2005/msg00007.html (5,776 bytes)

118. Re: Light bulb (score: 13)
Author: Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:54:44 -0800
You qualify -- are there theoretical EE's? bc SSHS KPHOX wrote: Forum for Physics Educators <PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu> on Monday, November 14, 2005 at 1:12 PM -0700 wrote: There are altogether too fe
/archives/2005/11_2005/msg00182.html (4,394 bytes)

119. Re: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries (score: 13)
Author: rrhake at EARTHLINK.NET (Richard Hake)
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:33:38 -0500
Those who dislike long posts (17 kB) or references, or have no interest in the "Ten Most Harmful Books" are urged to hit the DELETE button. And if you reply PLEASE DON'T HIT THE REPLY BUTTON unless y
/archives/2005/10_2005/msg00442.html (18,701 bytes)

120. Re: "moving clock runs slower" (yes) (score: 13)
Author: Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:59:47 -0500
I hit the save rather than the send button, as offering something too pretentious, too trite, too obvious, after writing this little response a day or two ago. But when did those considerations ever
/archives/2005/09_2005/msg00220.html (6,356 bytes)


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