Here is an email I recently received from a fellow physics teacher: "First, let me start by saying that I greatly appreciate your videos and routinely assign them to my physics students. You are doing great things for physics education, please keep it up.
Second, I must say that you are driving me crazy. When you introduce or write out the names of units that are named for a person, you keep capitalizing them when they do not want to be capitalized. For example, joules are joules, not Joules. They are abbreviated J, but when written out they are joules (otherwise, when written out capitalized, you are talking about a scientist’s family members). Same for watts (W), newtons (N), pascals, you get the idea. Now you are probably feeling incredulous and wondering why this crazy physics teacher is telling you this crazy rule about units, so here is a link from another crazy source that happens to agree. Please consider writing out person-named units with lowercase letters in your future videos. And thanks again for your fantastic work." - Alexandra, Kuchar, Wayland High School, MA My reply, "Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know about this, really. I don't pretend to know everything about physics (or is it Physics?) and love to learn more as I make the videos. I think it's wonderful to be corrected by a fellow physics teacher and important to highlight that we can all learn from one another." - Jon
How awesome is it when other teachers are taking your videos and making labs out of them? Cathy Colwell of PhysicsLab.org took my video: (Part 1 of 2) An introductory Projectile Motion Problem with an Initial Horizontal Velocity and made a really cool lab out of it. Thanks Cathy!
Click here toThe most common question I hear is, “How long does it take you to make these videos?” My answer to the question is, of course, a video. I set up a camera to document as much as I could of the process of making one video. Thank you Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers of Frances Luke Accord for allowing me to use their song “Save Me Your Laughter” from Live @ Strobe. Nick and Brian are wonderful gentlemen and beautiful musicians; please support their music.
By the way, the answer is approximately 2 hours of work for every minute of video. Please enjoy, Jon |
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