Comments for SuperFly Physics

Comment on Creating supplemental texts by Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist

Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:21:46 +0000

very cool, I’ll have to see if I can get multimarkdown to use those

Comment on Creating supplemental texts by Aori Nevo

Aori Nevo — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:12:06 +0000

MathJax has support for that now: http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/tex.html

Comment on Creating supplemental texts by Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist

Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:31:32 +0000

I have used WP to provide material to students, but the lack of formatting (like equation numbers, hyperlinked equation numbers in the text, etc) is holding me back, I feel.

Comment on Creating supplemental texts by Aori Nevo

Aori Nevo — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:01:59 +0000

I’m using WordPress as CMS and LMS to achieve the same set of goals as you.

Comment on Imaginary quantum physics by Philip Carter

Philip Carter — Mon, 06 May 2013 03:21:57 +0000

Good post. IMHO, to treat the imaginary part of complex numbers as real quantities is flawed. Indeed, the appearance of imaginary numbers in QM, symmetry groups, etc;, can only be consistently interpreted as the universe being both real and imaginary. Embracing this fact leads to powerful consequences, as explained in my paper at http://vixra.org/abs/1210.0124

Comment on Wave Pendulum Analysis by Nita

Nita — Wed, 01 May 2013 06:03:36 +0000

Hi sir,
I’m building a Pendulum for my school’s science fair, would you please help me chose the right materials for it.

Comment on Creating supplemental texts by Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:55:31 +0000

A chemistry teacher I work with uses JunoEd (junoed.org) for essentially these purposes you desire. She can add images, photos and videos she takes in class (most commonly of labs for students who are absent), and creates online readings (with “check for understanding” type questions) and online assignments. It seems really comprehensive and the kids enjoy it. I’m considering using this summer to look into applying it to my physics classes.

Comment on Creating supplemental texts by Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist

Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:03:41 +0000

No, it hasn’t failed, per se, it’s just that I’m picky about having material at just the right level. For most of my syllabus, wikipedia was great. For recent stuff, however, especially stuff that traditionally relies on linear algebra ideas, I had to augment the articles pretty heavily.

Comment on Creating supplemental texts by Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist

Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:02:24 +0000

Over a year ago they showed a demo of cdf’s working on an ipad. I’m not sure what’s taking so long to release that.

As for the embedding, all I know about for now is a widget that still needs the (free) CDF player to work. All the Wolfram demonstrations work that way now.

Comment on Creating supplemental texts by plulai

plulai — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:54:51 +0000

One More… I assume you wikipedia is your textbook experiment failed miserably since you side-stepped…
Did it fail?
I’ve been going a bit back and forth btn something like CDF, & making a text of gathered:
* source-text (wikipedia, , world of phyz, J. Denker, & open source physics texts)
* simulations (PhET, Physlets, etc…)
* online practice probs (UTexas, Mastering Physics, Random Prob Generator for basic practice)

What failed about the wikibook?
Paul