Category Archives: physics

I’ve posted an online PowerPoint presentation of Energy: Types, Nuclear Weapons, & Impacts. (If you use Firefox, use the IE Tab or IE View extensions.)

At long last I’ve put together an online PowerPoint presentation of my popular unit on the science history behind our understanding of Gravity & the Solar System. (If you use Firefox, use the IE Tab or IE View extensions.)

Here’s the wonderful clip from Brian Green’s The Elegant Universe I show in class about General Relativity. Get the DVD at Amazon

Posted by popular demand. Some students in 2004 catnapped Fluffy and decided to re-enact some examples from class – with the help of some stunt doubles, thank heavens! There is another video from 1998 I’ll have to convert and post … Continue reading →

Mu (the coefficient of friction) is our friend. Witness what happens at a Portland, Oregon intersection when our friend leaves on winter vacation.