🎢⚛️ folks with very large classes, what (if anything) are you using to assign homework? Mastering seems to be getting worse and worse

🎢 folks, anyone have a book/website/&c with fun estimation questions (mostly using dimensional analysis) for intro mechanics and e&m?

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⚛️🎢 Looking for thoughts on special relativity textbooks. I'm doing reading quizzes for my mechanics course so I want something that is readable and freely available through our library. Spacetime physics is winning but the 2nd edition is... interesting, so I'm looking for recs/thoughts.

🎢⚛️ what do your exam reviews look like? In the intro course I share attendance has been low and it's usually Ss trying to guess the exam questions from the questions I'm asking them. I don't imagine there's a magical way to make this fun but wondering if folks found something better.

🎢 I have a group of students this semester that simply refuses to draw pictures/write words in their problem solutions. "Equations speak for themselves and all that matters is that the answer is correct" - any suggestions on readings to assign/approaching this? More difficult than usual this year

🎢⚛️ shameless bump for the weekend crowd. My own hot take is that tracks like these are unnecessary but I'd still like to try and do something better for students

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🎢⚛️ I've been assigned the "honors track" intro physics course for my college next fall, and am wondering what texts folks used for this/hot takes you have. The standards seem to be Kleppner or Morin, which are... polarizing to students. Looking for alternatives and fresh ideas!

🎢⚛️ I've been assigned the "honors track" intro physics course for my college next fall, and am wondering what texts folks used for this/hot takes you have. The standards seem to be Kleppner or Morin, which are... polarizing to students. Looking for alternatives and fresh ideas!

#iTeachPhysics what's your success rate at getting students to correctly use vector notation? Grading work and the amount of (vector) = (number) statements and their equivalents is rough.

#iTeachPhysics folks is it time to start calling the normal force something else? I'm not surprised Ss don't know/remember that the "normal" in the name is for perpendicular but even after explaining it the typical attitude seems that it's a mystical thing

#iTeachPhysics folks, I like starting discussions of Newton's laws with questions like this on, but do you know of questions like it that students actually get wrong? Most of my Ss had physics before and know "what I want to hear" even if they'll reason incorrectly abt this later on.

🎢 #iTeachPhysics it finally happened: a student referred to 1986 as "the late 1900s". Time to retire.