{"id":4372,"date":"2009-12-29T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T09:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/29\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-8\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T09:39:54","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/29\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-8\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"i-1e8ca3d6f1057cdc4f9532702467bc29-sm_cover_draft_atom.jpg\" Today’s miscellaneous information about How to Teach Physics to your Dog<\/cite><\/a>:<\/p>\n

— Following on yesterday’s discussion about Barnes & Noble<\/a>, which seems to have numerous in-store copies everywhere but New England, where I am, it’s not some system-wide issue– B&N stores have a healthy number of copies, and have sold a pretty reasonable number of them already. It’s probably just a matter of shelving\/ distribution associated with the holidays.<\/p>\n

— I couldn’t really be the only blogger to think of connecting dogs and physics, and, indeed, I’m not. A bloodhound in Manhattan named Wimsey offers his take on Newton’s Laws<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In fact, I have recently uncovered a new translation of Newton’s famous three laws compiled by my ancestor Euclid Wimsey:<\/p>\n

Newton’s First Law<\/b>: Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.<\/p>\n

Translation of Newton’s First Law<\/b>: When in a park a Hound tends to remain in a park unless dragged out baying furiously by several strong humans.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All three laws are discussed, along with an instructive example. and, as a bonus, you get some illuminating historical anecdots regarding the US Civil War.<\/p>\n

— Current sales rank<\/a> is hovering in the 2,000-3,000 range, which isn’t bad at all.<\/p>\n

— The book was deemed “very funny<\/a> by someone at the Examiner. Which is a little dangerous– at dinner one time, one of my sister’s friends said “You know, your brother is pretty funny.” “I know,” she replied. “The problem is, he<\/em> knows it, too.”<\/p>\n

And that’s what I’ve got today on the book front. SteelyKid is home with a fever, which probably means no more substantive blogging for me today. If you need something to read, though, I do have a suggestion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s miscellaneous information about How to Teach Physics to your Dog: — Following on yesterday’s discussion about Barnes & Noble, which seems to have numerous in-store copies everywhere but New England, where I am, it’s not some system-wide issue– B&N stores have a healthy number of copies, and have sold a pretty reasonable number of… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,142,37,132,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-sales","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}