One thing we’ve noticed with our new house is how variable the background noise is. We now live within earshot of State Highway One and we can hear the distant rumble of trucks and other vehicles on it. The noise isn’t large – and it’s amazing that after just three weeks in the house we […]
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Feedback from students
I’ve just received a whole pile of appraisal forms relating to my A-semester papers earlier in the year. As is common in universities, at the end a paper, I ask my students to fill in a form relating to my teaching (and the content of the paper). It’s mostly Likert-scale questions (a statement, which then […]
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Physics is all about describing physical quantities. Whether it’s length, velocity, force, electric current or heat flux, it takes physics to describe what it is and what it does. Central to this is our system of units. The three really common base units (in the S.I. system) are the metre (unit of length), the second […]
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