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I feel like this page really nails down the key feature that makes great STEM notes: lots and lots of examples. And they're fully worked out too, showing all st

I feel like this page really nails down the key feature that makes great STEM notes: lots and lots of examples. And they're fully worked out too, showing all steps from formula to result. So much technical documentation and tutorials and what-have-you seems to want to stay on an entirely conceptual level, when just throwing in a single example can make things so much easier to digest.

lilgreenland 7y ago
Thanks, In the physics class I teach we go through the examples from the notes. Then, we follow up with real world labs and engineering projects to make it even more concrete. I might make my next project documenting the demos and labs that go with each unit.
- pdm55 7y ago
  Well done. Two small things I have loved when I came across them: 5 Min Physics from UQ (PHYS1171) https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html#course=phys1171&lecture=L34_QuantifyingRadioactivity https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html#... Newton's cannon. Look at its beautifully simple source code - one short html + javascript file (I see your javascript code for orbital motion is similarly easy to follow.) https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/NewtonsCannon4.html https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/NewtonsCannon4.htm... Something I was going to further explore, if I had had to do more physics tutoring/teaching: https://www.geogebra.org/m/M4nBYbbG#material/fHHvnhjm https://www.geogebra.org/m/M4nBYbbG#material/fHHvnhjm
  - pdm55 7y ago
    Note that there are other "5 min Physics" explanations and demos from UQ: https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html
- ivan_ah 7y ago
  > follow up with real world labs I wonder if you could connect various chapters in the notes with hands on experiments people could try based on data collected from https://phyphox.org/ https://phyphox.org/ I installed this app and I was surprised by all the sensors and data it can collect, but I didn't have a particular experiment in mind. It would be awesome to connect the examples and math model with real-world experiments.
  - pdm55 7y ago
    phyphox videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0974nWSIcyJElXUfYDv9_w/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0974nWSIcyJElXUfYDv9_w/vid...
    - ivan_ah 7y ago
      Nice! Lots of good ideas there. What is even cooler, they have a build-your-own-experiment graphical wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhhJGdXypg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhhJGdXypg

lilgreenland 7y ago

Thanks, In the physics class I teach we go through the examples from the notes. Then, we follow up with real world labs and engineering projects to make it even more concrete. I might make my next project documenting the demos and labs that go with each unit.

pdm55 7y ago
Well done. Two small things I have loved when I came across them: 5 Min Physics from UQ (PHYS1171) https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html#course=phys1171&lecture=L34_QuantifyingRadioactivity https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html#... Newton's cannon. Look at its beautifully simple source code - one short html + javascript file (I see your javascript code for orbital motion is similarly easy to follow.) https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/NewtonsCannon4.html https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/NewtonsCannon4.htm... Something I was going to further explore, if I had had to do more physics tutoring/teaching: https://www.geogebra.org/m/M4nBYbbG#material/fHHvnhjm https://www.geogebra.org/m/M4nBYbbG#material/fHHvnhjm
- pdm55 7y ago
  Note that there are other "5 min Physics" explanations and demos from UQ: https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html https://teaching.smp.uq.edu.au/fiveminutephysics/index.html
ivan_ah 7y ago
> follow up with real world labs I wonder if you could connect various chapters in the notes with hands on experiments people could try based on data collected from https://phyphox.org/ https://phyphox.org/ I installed this app and I was surprised by all the sensors and data it can collect, but I didn't have a particular experiment in mind. It would be awesome to connect the examples and math model with real-world experiments.
- pdm55 7y ago
  phyphox videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0974nWSIcyJElXUfYDv9_w/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0974nWSIcyJElXUfYDv9_w/vid...
  - ivan_ah 7y ago
    Nice! Lots of good ideas there. What is even cooler, they have a build-your-own-experiment graphical wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhhJGdXypg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhhJGdXypg