Physics Abused.

Getting it wrong.

• The Museum of Unworkable Devices. Perpetual motion machines treated as puzzles and paradoxes for analysis.
• Intelligent Design Creationism: Fraudulent Science.
• Let's Clean Up Our Physics Language.
• The Dangers of Analogies. Textbook analogies are usually wrong, incomplete, or misleading.
• Didaktikogenic Misconceptions in Physics. Misconceptions that result from school instruction.
• Tidal misconceptions. Textbook errors in discussions of ocean tides.
• The Moon Illusion, lots of glib answers abound. Some are moonshine.
• Newton's Cradle, colliding balls, exectuive pacifier, Newton's balls.
• Scientific Urban Legends and lies textbooks tell.
• History of Science Quiz. Textbook historical sidebars often don't tell the whole story.
• Whoops! Science and engineering blunders in the media.

Getting it right.

• Glossary of frequently misused or misunderstood physics terms.
• The Illustrated Dictionary of Physics. What those strange words seem to mean.
• Physics problems to challenge insight. Elementary physics puzzles and paradoxes.
• Teaching scenarios: electrostatics, lenses, images.
• Physics lecture demonstrations, a select list.
• Physics Toys, Tricks and Teasers.
• Physics utility programs in BASIC. Solve common elementary problems quickly.
• Thin lens ray tracing program. A thin lens simulation which may be used as an instructional tool or for self-study.
• The Scientific Method.
• What is science? What is Pseudoscience? by Donald Simanek.

Other web pages of science mistakes and abuses.

• Bad Astronomy. Phil Plait.
• Bad Meteorology. Alistair Fraser.
• Bad Chemistry. Kevin Lehmann.
• Bad Geology. Steven Schafersman.
• Bad Physics. Geoff Piper.
• K-6 Textbook misconceptions. Bill Beaty.

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