Riders on the buses of UMass Transit (here in the “Five-College” area) and of the University of Georgia transit system have something other than the usual “Please don't eat on the bus” placards to read—simple physics questions in the overhead advertising racks, with appealing cats and dogs posing questions, giving partial answers (some flat-out wrong, some partially correct), ending up with “What do you think? … Visit our website.” One sample is given below; others can be viewed at http://www.amherst.edu/∼physicsqanda. (More often than not, the dog gets it wrong; I'm a cat person.) This project was begun in collaboration with John King and was inspired by one of the many ideas described in his 2000 Oersted Medal address.
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