my internet file cabinet.
I can’t believe I haven’t seen this before. I think there’s a fun physics project in there somewhere.
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Posts tagged “physics”
Monday Puzzle: You Can’t Fight Density… er, Destiny - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com
Is Tierney Lab listening in on my physics classes? I posed this question to my AP kids about 5 days before this was posted.
Solar Eclipse (via Michæl.Paukner)
This guy has some amazing stuff. If you had permission and a nice color printer this could make a classroom like real nice.
“ This is a short little book— 176 pages total— built around the idea of Fermi Problems, the order-of-magnitude estimates that Enrico Fermi was famous for. The idea is that, with a little basic knowledge and some really simple math, you can come up with ballpark estimates of all sorts of things— the canonical Fermi problem example is “How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? ”
