Physicist at Large
Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Defeated by a Russian...and it's summer!
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I can't read anymore of Anna Karenina . I can't. I tried, and made it 100 pages, but it's so slow, and the day-to-day activiti...
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Monday, June 6, 2016
Amazingly, doing homework problems is a good way to learn physics material
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I have graded my final exam and looked at correlations between homework scores and test scores. Besides looking at overall homework average...
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The voice of the opposition
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I was interviewed to provide a critical perspective for an article about Eric Mazur in the Chronicle of Higher Education (paywall). There a...
Friday, June 3, 2016
Resurfacing
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I have been reading fiction lately, and the themes of this blog are much more suited to discussing non-fiction than fiction (unless we count...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016
All of this has been shilled before and will be shilled again
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I'm looking at a bunch of things I read a few years ago. Here's a fascinating infographic from the Brookings Institution : I don...
All of this has been hyped before and will be hyped again
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This is a fascinating survey of hype over educational technology. Naturally, though, I must remind the reader that this time it's diff...
Monday, May 16, 2016
Galileo had balls
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Prompted by a post by Gene Callahan's recent post , I have thought more about Galileo's thought experiment concerning the two balls ...
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