TensorTime Coordinate-free discussions about teaching physics…
TL;DR I am trying to raise funds to attend future AAPT national meetings with a GoFundMe campaign since the NSF grant that was previously funding me was cancelled in May. For the past three and a half years, I have been part of the OPTYCs grant, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) …
TL;DR: David Griffiths uses a boldface script r to represent the position vector of a field point (or observation point) relative to an element of electric charge and a corresponding regular weight script r for this vector’s magnitude. The easiest way to use the characters in your own documents is to download the free Kaufmann …
TL;DR: The things researchers are currently experiencing are horrendous and should not be happening. However, the current climate offers higher education elitists a chance to experience the bullying and unilateral academic interference community college faculty have been subjected to for decades from four-year institutions and our very own administrators. I can honestly say I don’t …
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TL;DR: Learning is not difficult. Finding documentation is difficult, especially for beginners, until you know where to find it. Depending on how you use , proper documentation can be found from a command line, in your editor, and online. Stay away from Stack Exchange sites, including Stack Exchange, except as an absolute last resort for …
TL;DR The ultimate decider of classroom content must always be the individual instructor, even though they may sometimes make bad decisions. The ultimate decider of what gets learned is always the student and there are no exceptions. The ubiquitous fake debates with administrators on these and similar issues are at best a waste of time …
All images were taken with a stock Unistellar eVscope 2 at Lucile Miller Observatory in Maiden, NC and are unprocessed. LMO is operated by the Catawba Valley Astronomy Club. Images should have alt text, so if that is not working please let me know.
In the previous post, I talked you through setting up MacTeX and bundled Mac apps. In this post, I want to introduce you to TeXShop, a powerful piece of software that is so much more than a text editor. At first glance, TeXShop is “just” a text editor. This shouldn’t surprise anyone since TeX or …
With the release of TeX Live 2022 earlier this week, I decided this is a great time to describe how to install a full TeX Live distribution on Macs. I will also go further and describe how to maintain that distribution, keeping packages up to date. Sorry Windows users. I haven’t touched a Windows machine …
TL;DR Some have raised the issue of accreditation for faculty teaching in private practice. The solution is deceptively simple. Faculty working in private practice would simply invent a brand new accreditation standard for ourselves. Problem solved. This is not without precedent. Furthermore, there is existing proof that accreditation is a red herring. Home schooling is …