March 19, 2020

#ChatPhysics

29 minutes

Summary

Fabio Di Salvo joins us to talk about Chat Physics, Physics chat on Twitter. Robin asks for advice about the photoelectric effect.

Content

Covid-19 dominates the news and the podcast is no exception. We got in to and then had cancelled the NSTA talk in the same week. Thomas cheered himself up by redoing the web site with a new archive and a new World map of all the listener locations. Before we talk to Fabio, Robin also

Fabio started Chat Physics for the same reasons as we started the Physics Teaching podcast. A lone physics teacher, he wanted to share ideas with other Physics Teachers. Chat Physics was born, four questions asked and teachers all over the World answering.

Links

https://twitter.com/chatphysics

Q4: Can the whole of physics be summarised in big ideas?#Chatphysics pic.twitter.com/VUf79SUknS

— Chat Physics (@ChatPhysics) March 12, 2020

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Music

Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.

Seasons 5 and 6: Crescents by Ketsa.

Seasons 3 and 4: Disco Sheik by Podington Bear.

Seasons 1 and 2: One legged equilibrist polka by Circus Homunculus.

Occasionally we also use Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith.

The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License

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