‘Physics of Whatever’ Relevant but Not Always Accurate
APR 01, 2004
DOI: 10.1063/1.4796458
When Lord Rayleigh wrote his paper “On the Irregular Flight of a Tennis Ball” (Messenger of Mathematics, volume 7, page 14, 1877) and J. J. Thomson wrote “The Dynamics of a Golf Ball” (Nature, volume 85, page 2147, 1910), were they trying to make physics relevant so as to increase the attendance in an introductory course they were teaching?
More about the authors
Howard Brody, (brody@physics.upenn.edu) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US .
© 2004 American Institute of Physics
