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Physics, Politics, Pop Culture
"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.
"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)
Emmy is a German Shepherd mix, and the Queen of Niskayuna. She likes treats, walks, chasing bunnies, and quantum physics.
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:49 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:47 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Math
My one-word piece of advice for students planning to study physics (or any other science, really, but mostly physics): Algebra.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:15 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:26 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Math
See if you can spot the flaw in CBS's "pie charts."
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:59 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
How physics provides the key to solving the world financial crisis.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:58 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:28 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:20 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:54 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:42 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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