Guesstimation: Solving the world's problems on the back of a cocktail napkin, Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adam

Look at the Princeton University Press website  and read the first chapter
Read the Amazon reviews (and maybe even buy it)
Listen to my interview on Footnote at EBRU TV
Read the other reviews:

• NY Times Basics Column
• Business Week
• Science
• Nature:Physics
• New Scientist
  
• Games
• Physics Today
• The Physics Teacher
• Mathematics Today
• Corpus Christi Caller-Times
• Deseret Morning News
• Powells Technica Newsletter
• Senior Voice
• Physics World
• Times Higher Education
• 
  

Research:

I smash atoms
Why smashing atoms is exciting
Experimental nuclear physics at ODU

Teaching:

Course Evaluations should be public. See what the students think of me

        Physics on the back of an envelope (Spring 2009)  

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

Outreach:

Talks and demonstration shows

Tidewater Physics Olympics

Virginia Children's Festival

Science is good for us (a letter to the APS Forum on Physics and Society, March 1999)

Science and Reason in Hampton Roads - an organization devoted to the critical examination of extraordinary or dubious claims

Rules for the 2009 SPS Pumpkin Drop

Old Courses and Syllabi:

        Methods of Experimental Physics  

        Physics on the back of an envelope (Spring 2008)  

        Physics on the back of an envelope (Spring 2007)  

        Methods of Experimental Physics  

        Physics of the 21st Century (Physics 120), Fall 2006

        Radiation and Optics (Physics 453), Fall 2006

        Elementary Physics II (102N) Spring 2006  

        Physics on the Back of an Envelope (309) Spring 2006  

        Elementary Physics I (101N) Fall 2005  

        Elementary Physics II (102N) Spring 2005   

            Elementary Physics I (101N) Fall 2004   

            Elementary Physics II (102N) Spring 2004

            Physics on the back of an envelope (309) (Spring 2004)

Elementary Physics (101N) Fall 2003

Physics of the 21st Century (120) Fall 2003

Elementary Physics (102N) Spring 2003

Physics on the back of an envelope (309) (Spring 2003)

Elementary Physics (101N) Fall 2002

Elementary Physics (102N) (Spring 2002)

Physics on the back of an envelope (309) (Spring 2002)

Graduate Quantum Mechanics I (fall 1999)

Elementary Physics (101N) (Fall 2001)

Graduate Quantum Mechanics II (spring 2000)

Investigating Modern Pseudoscience

Graduate Quantum Mechanics I (fall 1998)

Physics on the Back of an Envelope (309) [to be offered again Spring 2002]

University Physics I (231N) (Fall 1997)

University Physics II (232N) (Spring 1998)

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Larry Weinstein

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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