Monthly Archives: March 2013

Wait! It’s still interesting

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Andy Rundquist

A lot of the standards I have in my standards-based grading classes start with “I can do an interesting problem involving . . .” As a class we define “interesting” to mean lots of things, including that it hasn’t been … Continue reading →

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Imaginary quantum physics

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Andy Rundquist

A couple of years ago I wrote about some things I was thinking about regarding the use of complex numbers in quantum mechanics. This past week I got to refer to that post to my Modern Physics students, and this … Continue reading →

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Lagrange multipliers

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Andy Rundquist

This is a post that builds on my previous notes about the calculus of variations. This week I’m going to teach about modeling constraint forces using the Lagrangian approach, and I wanted to put these notes down for my current … Continue reading →

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Rubik’s cube test development

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Andy Rundquist

This week I was inspired by this intriguing post by my friend Ian Beatty. He talks about what it might be like to use a test-driven development process for teaching. Here’s the short version of what I got from that: … Continue reading →

Posted in fun, physics, physics problem db, teaching | 12 Comments