sábado, 14 de fevereiro de 2009
Fabrique sua própria válvula eletrônica!
Esse vídeo mostra todo o processo (100% artesanal) de fabricação de uma válvula triodo. Simplesmente fascinante.
Fonte: Claude Paillard
Marcadores:
Eletrônica,
Multimídia,
Tutoriais
quinta-feira, 12 de fevereiro de 2009
Papel especial permite impressão sem tinta
Um novo tipo de papel, produzido pela ZINK (Zero Ink), permite a impressão em cores, com qualidade fotográfica, sem o uso de tinta ou qualquer tipo de corante externo ao papel.

Esse papel é impregnado com cristais, contendo pigmentos nas cores amarela, magenta e ciano, as mesmas três cores básicas usadas nos cartuchos para impressão em cores. A combinação desses pigmentos, em proporções variadas, produz todas as outras cores.
Segundo a empresa, essa tecnologia vem sendo desenvlvida há vários anos, e inclui mais de 100 patentes.

Esse papel é impregnado com cristais, contendo pigmentos nas cores amarela, magenta e ciano, as mesmas três cores básicas usadas nos cartuchos para impressão em cores. A combinação desses pigmentos, em proporções variadas, produz todas as outras cores.
Surpreendentemente, o processo de impressão com esse papel é térmico - semelhante ao papel monocromático usado nos faxes. Para obter controle sobre as cores, cada pigmento é ativado por uma combinação única de temperatura e tempo. Assim, para ativar os pigmentos amarelos, a cabeça de impressão deve aquecer aquele ponto do papel com uma temperatura alta, por um tempo curto; para o ciano, deve-se aplicar uma temperatura menor, por um tempo mais longo. Controlando-se a intensidade da temperatura, e o tempo de aquecimento, obtém-se a combinação desejada dos pigmentos.
Marcadores:
Mundo Digital,
Tecnologia
terça-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2009
Intel investe em em chips menores e mais rápidos
A Intel anunciou que serão gastos $7 bilhões ao longo dos próximos dois anos para estabelecer o novo processo de fabricação em 32nm, que implica em chips menores, mais rápidos e energeticamente mais eficientes. Atualmente, os chips de última geração, Core 2 (Nehalem), são fabricados com processo de 45nm. Essa medida diz respeito à dimensão das menores unidades de circuito - os transistores - dentro do chip.
Os primeiros chips a serem produzidos com o novo processo serão os Westmere, uma versão menor do Nehalem, que acrescenta processamento gráfico à CPU.
Enorme investimento
Todo o dinheiro vai para novas instalações de produção nos EUA, onde a Intel já concentra 75% da sua produção.
"Estamos investindo na América para manter a Intel e a nossa nação na vanguarda da inovação", disse o Presidente e CEO Paul Otellini, em uma declaração.
Fonte: TechRadar
Os primeiros chips a serem produzidos com o novo processo serão os Westmere, uma versão menor do Nehalem, que acrescenta processamento gráfico à CPU.
Enorme investimento
Todo o dinheiro vai para novas instalações de produção nos EUA, onde a Intel já concentra 75% da sua produção.
"Estamos investindo na América para manter a Intel e a nossa nação na vanguarda da inovação", disse o Presidente e CEO Paul Otellini, em uma declaração.
"Essas instalações vão produzir a mais avançada tecnologia informática no mundo. As capacidades das nossas fábricas 32nm são verdadeiramente extraordinárias, e os chips que elas produzem passarão a ser os componentes fundamentais do mundo digital, de forma a gerar retorno econômico muito além da nossa indústria."
Fonte: TechRadar
Marcadores:
Mundo Digital,
Tecnologia
A better tool for collaborative creation of books
Despite some controversies about Wikipedia trustworthiness and policies, the fact is that it is the best tool we have to collaboratively build and organize human knowledge. The whole idea of the project invites people to collaborate. Even people like me, who rarely edit an entry, feel comfortable to do so, when we think the intervention will add value to the content.
However, I really feel uncomfortable when doing more profound edits, such as a major article reestructuring or rewriting, deleting or moving large blocks of text, changing the sequence of sections or the overall structure of an existing entry. I feel like being disrespectful to all the people who built this text as it is, before me. And even believing that the text and sequence I have in mind is better than what is already there, I don't make the changes.
This kind of feeling causes the evolutionary process to halt in a certain maturity level of each entry. Stubs will be heavily edited, but larger articles tends to stay stable, even if its structure is not good yet. The content will continue to evolve, with localized edits and insertions, but the outlook tends to freeze.
Ok... many will say that this stabilization is natural, and even good for the overall process. We don't want that entries keep changing forever! - If you agree, look at Wikibooks.
Unlike Wikipedia, which is an outstanding success - with millions of mature, high-quality articles, and a large number of active, engaged collaborators, Wikibooks is almost a failure. I couldn't find a single high-quality book, in a reasonable state of maturity. Why is that?
In my opinion, a book requires a larger commitment with the structure than an encyclopedia article. Books are written to be didactic, while an encyclopedia entry has only to be informative, and accurate. The focus of the encyclopedia is largely on the content, while the relevance of a book depends on both its content and structure.
Not being able to try, experiment and play with the structure, with the same freedom as with the content, the collaborators will not feel comfortable to engage, and leave. That's why Wikipedia has many more active collaborators than Wikibooks.
What is the problem?
wikipedia and wikibooks use the same underlying software - the MediaWiki. Although it has proven to be extraordinary for building a free encyclopedia, it's not performing well for creating books. MediaWiki does not separate content from structure and formatting. These three distinct things are tied together, in the same file, as a messy stream of texts and tags. For one-page articles, it may be acceptable, even practical; for larger things, like a book, dealing with the structure, content and formatting becomes clumsy.
Imagine you are a potential collaborator of a wikibook. You largely agree with the accuracy of the content, but you dislikes the sequence of things. What do you do? Will you feel encouraged to collaborate, with contents, even if you disagrees with structure? Will you change the structure, probably starting an edit-war? or will you simply leave, and let this book as it is, possibly starting you own book stub, with the sequence you have in mind?
What is the solution?
Imagine a tool that allows the separation of content, format and structure. Each paragraph, table, equation or image being a unit of content, identifiable by a reference, and a meaningful title. Each of these units has its own versioning history, allowing each user to decide wether to stuck with a version or another.
Now imagine that each user may have his own view for all this content. The view is just a personal way to look at the content, linking it together, organizing it, giving it a sequence, a structure. Each view is also a unit of content, with its own id , title and history. So, a sequence of paragraphs will form a section (a view), a sequence of sections will form a chapter (a view of views), a sequence of chapters will form a book. Anyone who disagrees with one particular organization is free to create your own view, but reusing the same content.
Some will say that this is possible to do in MediaWiki, and I agree, but it is not a feature, it is a hack. Definitely, MediaWiki is not built to work in this way.
What do you think about it? is this a good idea or not? is there some tool like that? can MediaWiki be changed to behave like that?
However, I really feel uncomfortable when doing more profound edits, such as a major article reestructuring or rewriting, deleting or moving large blocks of text, changing the sequence of sections or the overall structure of an existing entry. I feel like being disrespectful to all the people who built this text as it is, before me. And even believing that the text and sequence I have in mind is better than what is already there, I don't make the changes.
This kind of feeling causes the evolutionary process to halt in a certain maturity level of each entry. Stubs will be heavily edited, but larger articles tends to stay stable, even if its structure is not good yet. The content will continue to evolve, with localized edits and insertions, but the outlook tends to freeze.
Ok... many will say that this stabilization is natural, and even good for the overall process. We don't want that entries keep changing forever! - If you agree, look at Wikibooks.
Unlike Wikipedia, which is an outstanding success - with millions of mature, high-quality articles, and a large number of active, engaged collaborators, Wikibooks is almost a failure. I couldn't find a single high-quality book, in a reasonable state of maturity. Why is that?
In my opinion, a book requires a larger commitment with the structure than an encyclopedia article. Books are written to be didactic, while an encyclopedia entry has only to be informative, and accurate. The focus of the encyclopedia is largely on the content, while the relevance of a book depends on both its content and structure.
Not being able to try, experiment and play with the structure, with the same freedom as with the content, the collaborators will not feel comfortable to engage, and leave. That's why Wikipedia has many more active collaborators than Wikibooks.
What is the problem?
wikipedia and wikibooks use the same underlying software - the MediaWiki. Although it has proven to be extraordinary for building a free encyclopedia, it's not performing well for creating books. MediaWiki does not separate content from structure and formatting. These three distinct things are tied together, in the same file, as a messy stream of texts and tags. For one-page articles, it may be acceptable, even practical; for larger things, like a book, dealing with the structure, content and formatting becomes clumsy.
Imagine you are a potential collaborator of a wikibook. You largely agree with the accuracy of the content, but you dislikes the sequence of things. What do you do? Will you feel encouraged to collaborate, with contents, even if you disagrees with structure? Will you change the structure, probably starting an edit-war? or will you simply leave, and let this book as it is, possibly starting you own book stub, with the sequence you have in mind?
What is the solution?
Imagine a tool that allows the separation of content, format and structure. Each paragraph, table, equation or image being a unit of content, identifiable by a reference, and a meaningful title. Each of these units has its own versioning history, allowing each user to decide wether to stuck with a version or another.
Now imagine that each user may have his own view for all this content. The view is just a personal way to look at the content, linking it together, organizing it, giving it a sequence, a structure. Each view is also a unit of content, with its own id , title and history. So, a sequence of paragraphs will form a section (a view), a sequence of sections will form a chapter (a view of views), a sequence of chapters will form a book. Anyone who disagrees with one particular organization is free to create your own view, but reusing the same content.
Some will say that this is possible to do in MediaWiki, and I agree, but it is not a feature, it is a hack. Definitely, MediaWiki is not built to work in this way.
What do you think about it? is this a good idea or not? is there some tool like that? can MediaWiki be changed to behave like that?
Marcadores:
Educação,
Mundo Digital
segunda-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2009
Entenda a licença Creative Commons
Esse vídeo apresenta, de forma muito fácil e clara, o que é a licença Creative Commons, e quais seus objetivos.
A propósito... conforme indicado no rodapé desta página, todo o conteúdo desse blog está licenciado sob CC-BY-SA, e isso significa que eu estou declarando publicamente que qualquer pessoa pode usar esse conteúdo, no todo ou em partes, literalmente ou com alterações, de forma isolada, ou remixado com outros conteúdos, para qualquer fim que deseje - com apenas duas condições: que indique a fonte (BY), e que também usem essa mesma licença para seus trabalhos derivados (SA), ok?
Faço isso porque acredito - assim como todos os outros milhões de pessoas que também aderiram à licença CC, ou outras licenças livres - que o conhecimento não é propriedade individual, mas da humanidade. O conhecimento que eu possuo hoje, em minha mente, originou-se de todas as informações que eu colhi, do mundo, ao longo de minha vida. Meu pensamento é a soma das influências de tudo o que eu ouvi, vi, li e senti, interagindo com outras pessoas. Portanto, minhas criações não são apenas minhas, mas de todas essas pessoas que me influenciaram...
Pense nisso, e seja mais criativo, compartilhando sua criatividade!
A propósito... conforme indicado no rodapé desta página, todo o conteúdo desse blog está licenciado sob CC-BY-SA, e isso significa que eu estou declarando publicamente que qualquer pessoa pode usar esse conteúdo, no todo ou em partes, literalmente ou com alterações, de forma isolada, ou remixado com outros conteúdos, para qualquer fim que deseje - com apenas duas condições: que indique a fonte (BY), e que também usem essa mesma licença para seus trabalhos derivados (SA), ok?
Faço isso porque acredito - assim como todos os outros milhões de pessoas que também aderiram à licença CC, ou outras licenças livres - que o conhecimento não é propriedade individual, mas da humanidade. O conhecimento que eu possuo hoje, em minha mente, originou-se de todas as informações que eu colhi, do mundo, ao longo de minha vida. Meu pensamento é a soma das influências de tudo o que eu ouvi, vi, li e senti, interagindo com outras pessoas. Portanto, minhas criações não são apenas minhas, mas de todas essas pessoas que me influenciaram...
Pense nisso, e seja mais criativo, compartilhando sua criatividade!
Marcadores:
Destaque,
Educação,
Liberdade,
Multimídia,
Mundo Digital,
Sociedade
Ken Robinson: Escolas matam a criatividade?
O humor é a mais sublime forma de inteligência...
Nessa fantástica palestra no TED, Ken Robinson fala, com um típico humor britânico, sobre como o formalismo das escolas destrói nossa criatividade natural .
Nessa fantástica palestra no TED, Ken Robinson fala, com um típico humor britânico, sobre como o formalismo das escolas destrói nossa criatividade natural .
(clique em view subtitles para ativar legendas)
Marcadores:
Educação,
Multimídia,
TED Talks
A história da Internet
Esse vídeo apresenta uma excelente e concisa descrição das tecnologias que levaram à criação do que hoje conhecemos como internet.
Legendas em português por Guilherme Euler
Legendas em português por Guilherme Euler
Marcadores:
Educação,
Multimídia,
Mundo Digital,
Tecnologia
sábado, 7 de fevereiro de 2009
Microsoft aponta armas contra "competidores de código aberto"
A Microsoft publicou ontem, no LinkedIn, uma chamada para seleção de um novo diretor de "estratégia para código aberto", com foco em desktops. Segundo a nota:
Embora pesquisas mostrem um crescimento consistente do Mac-OS sobre o Windows nos desktops, com uma participação estável, ainda muito pequena, do Linux, alguns analistas apontam que a gigante de Redmond já se preocupa com as ações agressivas da Canonical, em colocar o Ubuntu como sistema padrão em netbooks, notebooks e dispositivos móveis.
Outra preocupação óbvia é com o crescimento real do Firefox (e, futuramente, do Chrome), sobre o IE...
Veja essa, e outras matérias em SERGIPE: Tecnologia e Inovação
"The Windows Competitive Strategy team is looking for a strong team member to lead Microsoft's global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors."Esse posicionamento, tão explícito, de definir estratégias com relação a "competidores de código aberto", nos faz pensar: que competidores são esses?
Embora pesquisas mostrem um crescimento consistente do Mac-OS sobre o Windows nos desktops, com uma participação estável, ainda muito pequena, do Linux, alguns analistas apontam que a gigante de Redmond já se preocupa com as ações agressivas da Canonical, em colocar o Ubuntu como sistema padrão em netbooks, notebooks e dispositivos móveis.
Outra preocupação óbvia é com o crescimento real do Firefox (e, futuramente, do Chrome), sobre o IE...
Veja essa, e outras matérias em SERGIPE: Tecnologia e Inovação
Os melhores cursos OCW
Em complementação ao artigo anterior, "Estude no MIT, sem sair de casa", estou colocando aqui uma seleção dos meus cursos preferidos no OCW. Essa página é dinâmica, e novos cursos serão adicionados à medida que eu os for encontrando.
Os cursos listados aqui estão em inglês, mas eu mesmo pretendo começar a traduzi-los, em breve.
8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics (Fall 1999) - Prof. Walter Lewin
Esse maravilhoso curso de física é composto por 35 aulas em vídeo, todas elas com legendas (em ingês), e transcrição completa (em inglês)
8.02 Electricity and Magnetism (Spring 2002) - Prof. Walter Lewin
Esse curso (igualmente maravilhoso) é composto por 36 aulas em vídeo, todas elas com legendas (em ingês), e transcrição completa (em inglês).
A introdução (vídeo acima) não tem legenda, mas eu fiz a transcrição, que pode ser acessada aqui.
8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves (Fall 2004) - Prof. Walter Lewin
Esse curso é composto por 26 aulas em vídeo. Infelizmente, ainda não conta com legendas nem transcrição das aulas, mas esses recursos devem ser adicionados logo.
6.002 Circuits and Electronics (Spring 2007) - Prof. Anant Agarwal
Esse curso é composto por 25 aulas em vídeo, todas elas com transcrição completa (em inglês). Legendas ainda não estão disponíveis.
Os cursos listados aqui estão em inglês, mas eu mesmo pretendo começar a traduzi-los, em breve.
8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics (Fall 1999) - Prof. Walter Lewin
Esse maravilhoso curso de física é composto por 35 aulas em vídeo, todas elas com legendas (em ingês), e transcrição completa (em inglês)
8.02 Electricity and Magnetism (Spring 2002) - Prof. Walter Lewin
A introdução (vídeo acima) não tem legenda, mas eu fiz a transcrição, que pode ser acessada aqui.
8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves (Fall 2004) - Prof. Walter Lewin
Esse curso é composto por 26 aulas em vídeo. Infelizmente, ainda não conta com legendas nem transcrição das aulas, mas esses recursos devem ser adicionados logo.
6.002 Circuits and Electronics (Spring 2007) - Prof. Anant Agarwal
Marcadores:
Educação,
Eletrônica,
Física,
Multimídia,
Mundo Digital
sexta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2009
8.02 Electricity and Magnetism Introduction, by Walter Lewin (transcription)
Abaixo, está a transcrição da fala introdutória do Prof. Walter Lewin para a disciplina 8.02 - Eletricidade e Magnetismo.
A transcrição de todas as outras aulas deste curso já está no site do MIT/OCW - somente essa estava faltando, então fiz essa transcrição na intenção de ajudar a tornar esse material acessível ao maior número de pessoas. Pretendo fazer a tradução de todo o material, quando tiver tempo.
Se alguém encontrar algum erro, ou quiser juntar-se a mim nesse trabalho, por favor, entre em contato pelo email: fprudente@gmail.com
The following content is provided under a Creative Commons licence. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high-quallity educational resources for free.
To make a donnation, or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare, at ocw.mit.edu.
Well, 8.02 is, of course, largely about Electricity and Magnetism. And at the hart of Electricity and Magnetism are the four... the famous four equations we call them the Maxwell's Equations.
It's quite a difficult course for students, and I go out of the way to also introduce many phenomenon that they see around them, and make those phenomenon connect with Electricity and Magnetism.
For instance: lightning, I do an electrocardiogram in class, I discuss metal detectors, I discuss musical instruments, magnetic levitation, I talk about northern light, which is very relevant to Electricity and Magnetism, I spend almost the whole lecture on particle accelerators, I tell them why the sunsets are red, and why the skies are blue; I talk about rainbows, about halos, about glories... I talk about color perception, and since I do Doppler effect I also talk about Big-Bang cosmology; and then, during my very last lecture, I introduce them into my research... the research I did during my early days at MIT, when I was making x-rays observations from very high-flying balloons at altitudes of 140 to 150 thousand feet.
So, my goal is, wherever possible, to make them see "through" the equations, to make them see the "beauty" all around them and, by doing that, to make them love physics.
Well, the 8.02 course is the second course in physics, it's mandatory, its what we call a general institute requirement, either you have to take this course, or you have to take one, which is slightly higher level: 8.022.
So, it is the... it is the basis that students get during their first year, 8.01 - Newtonian Mechanics, and then 8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism; and if they go into Physics, of course, they get a lot more, but if they never go into Physics, then this is all they will ever see about physics, which is quite a lot, actually!
We evaluate the students through traditional exams, and, the lectures are given in the main lecture hall of MIT, and then the students meet, in smaller groups, with professors, we call those "recitations", which is largely problem solving.
There are many events on this course, every lecture is an event, and the students will have taken me... well... telling that, indeed, going to my lectures is an event. I'm not a very traditional lecturer, so therefore I really like to think this lecture is an event.
We do have a contest, which is very, very popular: we hand to the students a piece of wood, some copper wire, a few paper clips, and two magnets, and the goal is to make an electric motor; and they get a quote of credit depending upon how fast the motor is going, and this is really... a real happening, it's an incredible event, and some of the motors are extraordinary in their design. If you and I would try to build a motor, we'll be lucky if your motor rotates 400 revolutions per minute, but let me tell you, some students go to the 5000 revolutions per minute mark! it's really quite... quite amazing, and they really spend so much time on that... it's a wonderful event, it's really a happening!
My message to all educators is: what counts is NOT what you cover, but what counts is what you UNCOVER, and this is often forgotten! so, there is a general tendency, not everyone, but a general tendency, to run too much down the throats of the students, and overlook that that's very anti productive, because it goes one ear in, as we say in Holland, and it goes other ear out again. So what you cover is not what matters but what you uncover is what matters. And if you can somehow do it so that there are parts of the course that they will remember for the rest of their lives, that's even more important. If a student has come to my lectures on rainbows, and halos and glories, for the rest of their lives, rainbows will never be the same! and they will always think of me, when they see a rainbow and, in fact, sometimes 20 or 30 years after a lecture, they send me still pictures, and they say "professor Lewin, I saw a rainbow and I thought of you, and here is a picture!", and the interesting thing is they sometimes send me a picture which is not even a rainbow, it is a glory, but it doesn't matter... what it shows is that I have succeeded in making them love Physics, and that's my goal, and that should be the goal of every educator: to make them love Physics.
Source:
Walter Lewin, 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism (Introduction), Spring 2002. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), available online (Accessed 06/feb/2009). License: Creative commons BY-NC-SA
A transcrição de todas as outras aulas deste curso já está no site do MIT/OCW - somente essa estava faltando, então fiz essa transcrição na intenção de ajudar a tornar esse material acessível ao maior número de pessoas. Pretendo fazer a tradução de todo o material, quando tiver tempo.
Se alguém encontrar algum erro, ou quiser juntar-se a mim nesse trabalho, por favor, entre em contato pelo email: fprudente@gmail.com
The following content is provided under a Creative Commons licence. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high-quallity educational resources for free.
To make a donnation, or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare, at ocw.mit.edu.
Well, 8.02 is, of course, largely about Electricity and Magnetism. And at the hart of Electricity and Magnetism are the four... the famous four equations we call them the Maxwell's Equations.
It's quite a difficult course for students, and I go out of the way to also introduce many phenomenon that they see around them, and make those phenomenon connect with Electricity and Magnetism.
For instance: lightning, I do an electrocardiogram in class, I discuss metal detectors, I discuss musical instruments, magnetic levitation, I talk about northern light, which is very relevant to Electricity and Magnetism, I spend almost the whole lecture on particle accelerators, I tell them why the sunsets are red, and why the skies are blue; I talk about rainbows, about halos, about glories... I talk about color perception, and since I do Doppler effect I also talk about Big-Bang cosmology; and then, during my very last lecture, I introduce them into my research... the research I did during my early days at MIT, when I was making x-rays observations from very high-flying balloons at altitudes of 140 to 150 thousand feet.
So, my goal is, wherever possible, to make them see "through" the equations, to make them see the "beauty" all around them and, by doing that, to make them love physics.
Well, the 8.02 course is the second course in physics, it's mandatory, its what we call a general institute requirement, either you have to take this course, or you have to take one, which is slightly higher level: 8.022.
So, it is the... it is the basis that students get during their first year, 8.01 - Newtonian Mechanics, and then 8.02 - Electricity and Magnetism; and if they go into Physics, of course, they get a lot more, but if they never go into Physics, then this is all they will ever see about physics, which is quite a lot, actually!
We evaluate the students through traditional exams, and, the lectures are given in the main lecture hall of MIT, and then the students meet, in smaller groups, with professors, we call those "recitations", which is largely problem solving.
There are many events on this course, every lecture is an event, and the students will have taken me... well... telling that, indeed, going to my lectures is an event. I'm not a very traditional lecturer, so therefore I really like to think this lecture is an event.
We do have a contest, which is very, very popular: we hand to the students a piece of wood, some copper wire, a few paper clips, and two magnets, and the goal is to make an electric motor; and they get a quote of credit depending upon how fast the motor is going, and this is really... a real happening, it's an incredible event, and some of the motors are extraordinary in their design. If you and I would try to build a motor, we'll be lucky if your motor rotates 400 revolutions per minute, but let me tell you, some students go to the 5000 revolutions per minute mark! it's really quite... quite amazing, and they really spend so much time on that... it's a wonderful event, it's really a happening!
My message to all educators is: what counts is NOT what you cover, but what counts is what you UNCOVER, and this is often forgotten! so, there is a general tendency, not everyone, but a general tendency, to run too much down the throats of the students, and overlook that that's very anti productive, because it goes one ear in, as we say in Holland, and it goes other ear out again. So what you cover is not what matters but what you uncover is what matters. And if you can somehow do it so that there are parts of the course that they will remember for the rest of their lives, that's even more important. If a student has come to my lectures on rainbows, and halos and glories, for the rest of their lives, rainbows will never be the same! and they will always think of me, when they see a rainbow and, in fact, sometimes 20 or 30 years after a lecture, they send me still pictures, and they say "professor Lewin, I saw a rainbow and I thought of you, and here is a picture!", and the interesting thing is they sometimes send me a picture which is not even a rainbow, it is a glory, but it doesn't matter... what it shows is that I have succeeded in making them love Physics, and that's my goal, and that should be the goal of every educator: to make them love Physics.
Source:
Walter Lewin, 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism (Introduction), Spring 2002. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), available online (Accessed 06/feb/2009). License: Creative commons BY-NC-SA
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Física,
Multimídia
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