Donald Simanek's Pages of bad physics, abuses of physics and physics misconceptions
Physics Abused.
Donald Simanek's pages of abuses and
misconceptions about physics.
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.
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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.
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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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