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John Burk

Excellent Approximations and Lying to Children - Uncertain Principles - 0 views

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    Interesting thoughts on the complaint that what we teach students in physics isn't true. 
John Burk

How to Present Scientific Data : Uncertain Principles - 0 views

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    Excellent post on how to present scientific data-could be given directly to students as a reference. 
John Burk

How to Read a Scientific Paper : Uncertain Principles - 1 views

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    Really great blog post with detailed instructions on how to read a scientific paper. If you wanted to instruct students on this skill, you could simply give them this post. 
John Burk

On the Helpfulness of Numbers : Uncertain Principles - 0 views

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    thoughtful post with useful comments on the how students struggle with symbolic manipulation and can do much better with problems that involve only numbers. Comments are interesting too. 
John Burk

A Toy Model of the Arrow of Time : Uncertain Principles - 0 views

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    great post (with code) of a statistical model of entropy. 
John Burk

Thursday Eratosthenes Blogging: Measuring Latitude and Longitude with a Sundial : Uncer... - 0 views

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    Very repetition of Eratosthenes measurement to determine both latitude and longitude. 
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