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Education and outreach

Education and outreach

How ‘pop Newton’ can help inspire the next generation

19 Aug 2024

Richard Easther and Frank Wang argue that a “Newton first” approach to undergraduate physics teaching can give students a better insight than focusing solely on “modern physics”

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The whole story Topics such as statistical physics, emergence and even climate dynamics can be presented by starting with two-body interactions on toy air-hockey tables. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Fer Gregory)
The top two physics books on Goodreads are Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and Brian Gre

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Richard Easther is a physicist at the University of Auckland and is president of the New Zealand Institute of Physics. Frank Wang is a research fellow at the University of Göttingen
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