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Started by Mike Macallister
Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
physics problems
Author: Mike Macallister
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
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In my AP physics class for the last four years I have been dutifully assigning problems from the text we use (Physics, Giancoli 3rd edition) for my students to solve. I have also been getting increasingly dissatisfied with this. The problems usually key in on a particular section of a chapter with its narrow focus of possible concepts to be brought to bear on the problem and their equation(s). I don't disparage this. I do, however, wish there was more. For example, I came across an interesting problem not too long ago which simply asked the following: "If two galaxies passed through each other, what is the probability that two stars would collide? Or one Neils Bohr once proposed, "How many molecules does a car tire lose for each revolution of the tire. To solve the problem there are estimates that have to be made and relevant quantities researched. There is a strategy to solving the problem that is not tacitly dictated by the section of the text the problem comes from. And so on. Anyhoo, I am not terribly creative at making up my own such problems like this. I also have not found any good sources as yet. If you know of any such source, or have pet problems like this you wouldn't mind sharing, could you pass it along to me? Thank you Mike Macallister Central Catholic High School Portland, Oregon
Re: physics problems
Author: Matt Tuley
Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 00:00
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In article <950504195907_107134810@aol.com> Mike Macallister <Physicstch@AOL.COM> writes:
>Anyhoo, I am not terribly creative at making up my own such problems like
>this. I also have not found any good sources as yet. If you know of any
>such source, or have pet problems like this you wouldn't mind sharing, could
>you pass it along to me?
Two good books for this are _Thinking Physics_ (blanking on author, don't know
publisher, don't have it handy) and the quickly-becoming-a-classic _Flying
Circus of Physics, with Answers_ by Jearl Walker (published by John Wiley and
Sons).
Matt Tuley tuley@csn.org
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