READINGS

  • L. J. Curtis, "Atomic Structure & Lifetimes: A Conceptual Approach"
  • L. J. Curtis, "Einstein's Contributions to Atomic Physics"

  • L. J. Curtis Reinvent Introductory Physics!
  • L. J. Curtis Critique Sears/Zemansky/Young 8th ed.

  • Why are great athletes both early in the calendar year?
  • Freakonomics column
  • Journal article

  • Laurence H. Tribe "What Lawyers can learn from Modern Physics" (cover page)
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  • Premedical Education
  • Pet scans

  • Streak shooting
  • Hot Hands Student exercise
  • Hot Hands Scholarly Psychology paper
  • Hot Hands New York Times Feature Article
  • Momentum in Tennis
  • Clutch players
  • Clutch players (text)

  • Stephen Jay Gould, "Why we can't predict the future"
  • Einstein, Brownian motion, and the random walk

  • Stephen Jay Gould, "The median is not the message"

  • Frank Wilczek, "Deconstructing a miracle"
  • SETI
  • Observational vs experimental science

  • John Horgan, "The end of science"
  • David Gergin interviews John Horgon
  • David Gergin interviews John Maddox, "What remains to be discovered"

  • Sam Ting Equal amounts matter/antimatter? Bill Moyers interview

  • Sköna Maj: An Enchanted Life

  • Curtis, Haar & Kummer, An Expectation Value Formulation of the Perturbed Kepler Problem, Am.J.Phys. 55, 627 (1987).
  • Curtis & Ellis, Use of the EBK action quantization, AJP 72, 1521 (2004).
  • Curtis & Ellis, Probabilities as a Bridge between Classical & QM Treatments, EJP 27, 485 (2006).
  • Larkoski, Ellis & Curtis, Numerical implementation of the EBK quantization for arbitrary potentials, AJP 74, 572 (2006).

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