Tag: order of magnitude physics
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The Purcell Club
At the request of Aiden, the whole team is now practicing how to carry out order of magnitude estimates. We meet every Tuesday from 16:00-17:00 and pick a Purcell problem at random from his series published in the 1980’s called The Back of the Envelope in the American Journal of…
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Purcell Cards (Order of Magnitude Physics)
Ed Purcell developed a set of constants/numbers that one could use to estimate physical quantities quickly. These notes could fit on a postcard and could be used for “back of the envelope” calculations. I obtained a copy of these notes from my Caltech PHY 103b Order of Magnitude class from…
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A Behind the Scenes Look at PHY 451: Advanced Lab, Part 1
[This is the first in a series of posts about our efforts to improve the instruction in PHY 451: Advanced Lab. They are written by my collaborator Matthew Rossi who is an assistant professor of writing in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture. His research focuses on citizen science,…
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Lectures for PHY 451 Advanced Lab
Based on Teaching Students How to Model, I am revising the lectures for the Advanced Lab class (PHY 451). Day 1: Lectures 1 & 2: Modeling Framework Lectures 3, 4, 5: Data Analysis Potpourri Lecture 6: Estimating & Order of Magnitude Physics Lecture 7,8,9: Communication (Argumentation, PRL-style paper, APS-style talk) Lecture 10: Two-level…
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