Re: [Phys-l] index of refraction

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

The pendulum is very rich -- the title of a paper in AJP**: The  
pendulum--Rich physics from a simple system.

** 54  p. 512, ff. (Nelson & Olsson)


bc pendulum person

On 2009, May 13, , at 07:42, John Denker wrote:

> I always thought that the main point of "rich context" problems is
> that the students are supposed to rack their brains and think of  
> little
> bits of real-world information that they can bring to bear.