Presentation Date:
Friday, July 10, 2009
Location:
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Biophotonics: Spectroscopy, imaging, sensing, and manipulation, Centro Ettore Majorana (Erice, Sicily)
Presentation Slides:
That physics describes the real world is a given for physicists. In spite of tireless efforts by instructors to connect physics to the real world, students walk away from physics courses believing physicists live in a world of their own. Are students clueless about the real world? Or are we perhaps deluding ourselves and misleading our students about the real world?