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Physics from Planet Earth is the title of a newly published “one semester calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics, intended for first-year college/university students studying physics, astronomy, chemistry or engineering” textbook by Amato and Galvez that features examples drawn from astronomy, cosmology, and space science. Some of these examples are presented and discussed in author Joe Amato’s blog of the same name, and the blog is compelling. I like to include real world exciting problems in my own instruction (students like these, though the research takes me a long time) and the site has several examples I will appropriate (with citation), as well as timely posts dedicated to gravitational radiation that present problems I would not hesitate to use with a junior-level mechanics course. (Submitted by Joe Amato of Colgate University Physics)
Steve Mould (and others) are doing a very nice conceptual analogic demonstration of...