Blog Posts on physics education

Study guide for Jackson’s Classical Electrodynamics: Electrostatics 1.1-1.4 by Padre Faura's Notebook on Jun 22, 2011by Dr. Quirino Sugon Jr. Physics Department, Ateneo de Manila University J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd ed. (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1965), pp. 27-33. At the start of a 3 hour Saturday class, the students will be quizzed regar...

Physics as a foreign language: mathematical symbols and subscripts by Padre Faura's Notebook on Jul 22, 2009Symbols Many quantities in physics are described by one-character symbols. In grammar, these quantities are nouns. Position along the horizontal or horizontal position Position along the vertical or vertical position Time Velocity...