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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.

You've read the blog, now try the book: How to Teach Physics to Your Dog will be published December 22nd by Scribner.

Chad Orzel "Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)

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Math and the Teaching Thereof

Category: Education

Firday's quick and sarcastic post came about because I thought the Dean Dad and his commenters had some interesting points in regard to high school math requirements, but we were spending the afternoon driving to Whitney Point so I could...

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Math Is Hard

Category: Education

The Dean Dad slaps his forehead and asks a question: We have anecdotal evidence that suggests that students who actually take math for all four years of high school do better in math here than those who don't. We also...

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Algebra Is Like Sunscreen

Category: Math

My one-word piece of advice for students planning to study physics (or any other science, really, but mostly physics): Algebra.

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Would You Like Some Calculus With Your Physics?

Category: Academia

It's a nice demonstration of the oddity of the blogosphere that a libertarian political blog has become my go-to-source for thoughtful blogging about physics education. Thoreau had two good posts yesterday at Unqualified Offerings, one on the problems created by...

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CBS: Polling for the Innumerate

Category: Math

See if you can spot the flaw in CBS's "pie charts."

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Physics Can Fix This

Category: Academia

How physics provides the key to solving the world financial crisis.

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The Confusing Display of Quantitative Information

Category: Journalism

Nobody is ever going to mistake me for Edward Tufte, but whenever I run across a chart like this one: (from Matt Yglesias, who got it from Justin Fox where it was merely one of many equally horrible plots), I...

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Numbers of Order Unity

Category: Academia

Over at Unqualified Offerings, Thoreau is bemused by his students' reaction to unusual numbers: [I]t is fascinating how we condition people to be used to numbers in a certain range, and as soon as a number is either very big...

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The Purpling of Blogdom

Category: Blogs

Williams has long held a dominant position in a number of categories of blogging: Dan Drezner on economics and politics, Marc Lynch on the Middle East, Ethan Zuckerman on the developing world and really cool conferences, Derek Catsam on history...

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The Swashbuckling Physicist's Guide to Complex Numbers

Category: Physics

Having mentioned this a few times in course reports, I thought I'd throw out a link to my lecture notes (PDF) on complex numbers. This is the one-class whirlwind review of complex numbers from defining i to Euler's theorem about...

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