... audience, being deliberately designed as technical pre-professional training (TPT)? Here we come back full circle to the themes in the Introduction. ²⁴ TPT is not just a pedagogical attitude; it serves as a (limited) educational philosophy ( Schulz, 2014a ). Would...

.... Clifford Swartz, the editor of TPT and a committee member, summarized the results of the review ( Swartz, 1999 ): The search for studies that treat the alignment between “physics textbooks” and “physics curriculum” was carried out in Google Scholar. It is informative to learn how much Physics Education...

...I am happy to have had the opportunity to choose editorials from Cliff's Nodes to feature and write appreciations about. During his tenure as editor of The Physics Teacher (TPT), Cliff Swartz demonstrated great insight and wisdom about the American education system. Many...

... as two articles to the American Journal of Physics (AJP) and to write a third for The Physics Teacher (TPT) ( McDermott, 1974a ; 1974b ; 1975 ). Around that time, Arnold began writing The Various Language: An Inquiry Approach to the Physical Sciences ( Arons, 1977 ). Together...

.... Cliff, as well as Joseph Henry, was right; it is wrong to try to invert the order of nature. Appreciation Rules concerning our uncertainties As the editor of The Physics Teacher (TPT) for 28 years, I am sure Cliff saw a wide variety of manuscripts from authors intending...

... profession. As for the latter, enjoy the twist of words. I wasn't only kidding. Cliff Swartz, 2006 Preface to Cliff's Nodes with Appreciations The first time I read an editorial by Cliff Swartz in The Physics Teacher (TPT) was in 1983. Every month, I looked forward...

... schools to incorporate such a course. ¹⁰ Appreciation The annual round of life for a physics teacher This editorial was published in The Physics Teacher (TPT) a month after I had been hired at the school where I would begin my physics teaching career. The editorial describes...

... your height. The size of the mirror is independent of your distance from the mirror. See Activity 13: TPT Object, Image and Test Pin Demonstration in Activity 13. FIG. 16(TN).1 Summary This activity and the next are assignments or a quiz/tests dealing with flat mirrors and their reflection...

... from downward concentrations of airflow through the propellers. The complete derivation can be found in the full article from TPT. However, one interesting point to note is that helicopter blades are curved, with the greatest angle of attach nearest to the rotor. Because tangential velocity...

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...RELATED REFERENCES RELATED REFERENCES TPT   23 , 489 ( 1985 ) – TPT 24, 482 (1986) – TPT 26, 200 (1988) – Variations of this demo. 10.1119/1.2341889 TPT   31 , 32 ( 1993 ) – Stack of 7 bricks used as hall demo with second facing stack yeilding crude arch. 10.1119/1.4739265 ...

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