Cliff's Nodes: Editorials from the Physics Teacher

Sampul Depan
JHU Press, 2006 - 338 halaman
Cliff Swartz is a passionate advocate for better physics teaching, based on a curriculum that is quantitative and includes experiments 'with a purpose.' Here, in a collection of editorials written for The Physics Teacher magazine -- along with a few new ones -- he cajoles, chides, preaches, and provides a good swift kick in the intellectual pants for those who are working to share physics with the next generation.Gleaned from a lifetime in the lab and in the classroom, Swartz's book is chock-full of wisdom for neophytes as well as seasoned veterans. Favorite editorials such as 'Practically Perfect in Every Way' and 'Justifying Atoms' provide the reader with an insider's view of the state of physics teaching over the three decades that Swartz edited The Physics Teacher. His advice and opinions -- often thought-provoking or controversial -- should not go unheeded.

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True Confessions
21
Why Dont Poets Like Physics?
35
Extrapolations and Prognostications
49
CHEER GLOOM
53
Is This Generation Different?
59
Saying the Sooth
66
Why Do We Need Labs?
82
Listen
95
Back to normal
201
The Rumpelstiltskin Factor
204
Razzmatazz and All That Jazz
218
Touchstones
233
The Great American New Math Swindle
240
Reprise Critical Thinking and Similar Nostrums
247
New Fad Old Fraud
254
Absolute Errors
263

An Elementary Proposal For ElementarySchool
108
More Sage AdviceThe HighSchool Physics
114
Downhill Thoughts
127
The Facts of Life
142
Judicious Hoopla
156
The Hawthorne Effect and Other Mysteries
170
Modern PhysicsAll Year Long
175
6000 CHIDINGS
181
The Road to Panacea
189
Salus ex Machina
195
Insignificant Figures
266
Trinity Sure1
279
Circular Reasoning
293
Misconceptions for GrownUps
296
The Plumb Line
302
Believing Is Seeing
310
Dimensionless Constants
326
Physics Where the Least Action Is
333
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