Monday, January 21, 2013

Dear Physics, I miss you

I like teaching math, but I really, really love teaching physics. It will be good to get back to it. I am teaching a independent study in nuclear engineering, which, at least at the start, contains a great deal of elementary nuclear physics. I am enjoying it.

It is fascinating how a deeper scientific understanding of the beauty of the universe pushes some to God and pushes other away.

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  1. That's great! I, for one, would love to see some blog posts from you about nuclear physics, the challenges you find while teaching, and so forth.

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  2. Jeffrey,

    Yes I plan on posting more discussions of my physics classes when I get back to my old department.

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  3. Yeah, nuclear is a blast (NPIntended). Predicted the g.s. spin-parity of O-17 (3/2+), talked through that with s-1/2, p-3/2, p-1/2, d-5/2, explaining all that. Then asked the class to predict Ar-37. Of course, they said 7/2-, but it's really 3/2+...lots of good times finding out why.

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