I also have a picture that I use of a previous
dog, Chaos, who was a 96 pound Irish Wolf Hound mix.
Sitting at a table with an Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics book open.
He's got glasses on, and he's punching numbers into a calculator.
And then I say to my students, you know, see, Physics
or science is so easy even a dog can do it.
Of course, the next step is to choose
examples that can give students a real feel
for the subject, and let them realize how
simple Physics, or science in general, can be.
And, and that's the real art of being a professor.
Choosing these examples that, that make it easy.
We have to remember, we're not born
and that includes us, knowing these disciplines.
science, or any other course.
so, you know, when, when we're doing this work we, we, we
have to lighten it up, but we have to choose these examples.
Science is compounded by the fact
that people are very uncomfortable with numbers.
I use an example where I, I pass tennis balls around the class.
So the student can see, and feel, hold the ball, then I ask
them, what size box could hold 10 732 balls being in the United States?
I get the answer in feet, and I make it a cube, so it's easy, easy for
them to give me one number and, you
know, I get numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
Seldom, do I get a number that's below a hundred.