Some of the readers of this list know about a college-level
calculus-based intro physics curriculum and textbook "Matter &
Interactions" created by Ruth Chabay and me
(matterandinteractions.org). There exist videos of lectures for this
curriculum which have just become available.
Ruth Chabay's videos on mechanics and Matt Kohlmyer's videos on
electricity & magnetism are now available here:
http://courses.ncsu.edu/py581/common/podcastshttp://courses.ncsu.edu/py582/common/podcastsTo be fully legal for the general public they need to be captioned for
the hard of hearing. All of the audio has been transcribed by a
professional captioning company, but those transcriptions need to be
edited by someone with the right physics knowledge (and even Matter &
Interactions knowledge). I'm doing the editing, and so far I've
finished a third of the work. I expect to finish in a few weeks. An
example of mistakes made were references to "the mobile electron C"
(should be "the mobile electron sea"). The transcribers work
exclusively from the audio track; they never look at the video, where
of course most of the words do appear on the whiteboard.
In the videos you'll see instances of current pedagogical practices.
The lectures are broken up by questions to which the students respond
with little hand-held RF transmitters. Often you'll see 3D
visualizations of physics concepts using programs written in VPython
(vpython.org) written by Ruth and me.
Bruce Sherwood
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