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Monday Sep 01, 2008

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First week done. Not bad, if I say so myself. The functional analysis homework only took me two days to complete and both lecture sessions for physics went off pretty well. I'm happy. I really like the opportunity to spent basically three hours, twice a week, expounding on physics and generally making a fool of myself.

Case in point: I opened my second lecture with a quote from Maurice Merleau-Ponty, one of my favorite philosophers, about perception (I'm approaching the teaching of physics to non-physics majors with the idea that physics is a model that humans use to study and interact with the physical universe and, as a model, has 'weirdness' like Newton's Third Law). So right after explaining the quote and the concept of the model, one student raised her hand and asked how the model applied to Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I wasn't ready for that. biggrin Gonna have to get my 'A' game on, I guess.

Also, I made a Firefly joke and people laughed. Weird.
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radiofrank:
Firstly, happy (very belated) birthday! I hope that you had a wonderful day.

I'm glad to hear that your lectures are going well - and I completely agree with your decision to more or less ditch the textbook. I haven't the faintest idea why any physics text (especially one for non-physics types) would teach the subject in that order.

I'm most interested to hear about what you're going to do next, especially since your class is no longer "theoretical". biggrin
Sep 29, 2008
rk:
Thanks man, I think I'll be up and about today already. I just feel like I got kicked in the gut a couple times.

How are things back in SB?

How are the lectures going now?
Oct 29, 2008

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