salaphysics - A common sense approach

salaphysics
(A Common Sense Approach)

salaphysics is dedicated to exploring how physics can be shown to work when observation and common sense, rather than mathematical analysis, is applied to resolve various problems.

This web page is an introduction to the salaphysics science curriculum (lessons and other materials).

Most of the information will be presented as lessons that are available on-line and will rely heavily on the written word. It is not the intent of the salaphysics curriculum to make the learning of physics easier for you...or harder. But, until you can at least explain a concept to yourself, using the 'King's English', it's a pretty sure bet that you don't really understand the concept all that well.

Pictures are good but, even the best pictures are usually cartoonishly simple, incomplete and often misleading. So, pictures will be used sparingly and only to set up situations, not to try to resolve them.

Videos will be referenced frequently to show (usually) problems with how physics is taught in the conventional science curriculum. The video format is not used in the salaphysics curriculum as it's too easy to just watch a video and then move on without giving much thought to the content or message. It's felt that text-based lessons will morce the student to be more analytical in order to be able to complete the lesson.

In these 'connected times', it's assumed that students using the salaphysics curriculum will have and routinely use computers and 'smart phones' for much of the work they do. So, it will be expected that, even though salaphysics lessons wont be presented as videos, the students' assignments will...and that their own work will be subject to being referenced and cited in other students' assignments.

The lessons in the core salaphysics cuuriculum should be taken in order. Later lessons assume that you have completed the earlier lessons and that you understand the principles in them. Other related salaphysics lessons will frequently be referenced (whole or in part) to support the lesson being presented.

All materials are copyrighted by salaphysics. If you find the information of use and would like to incorporate any or all of it into your own presentations or programs, please contact the webmaster of this site or my estate.

NOTE: No Actual lessons Available Yet.
But, some preliminary material is.

Introductory Lessons