{"id":4941,"date":"2010-08-11T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T08:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/11\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-40\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T08:54:22","slug":"how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/11\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-40\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, Sideways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese physicist who I worked with as a post-doc spotted the Japanese edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> in the wild, and picked up a copy. He sent along a scan of a couple of pages of the text, one of which I reproduce here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a4dcb376c07287e161b8172ac743839d-japanese_page.jpg\" alt=\"i-a4dcb376c07287e161b8172ac743839d-japanese_page.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had totally forgotten that Japanese books are often printed with the text in vertical columns from right to left, which creates a slightly weird effect. What&#8217;s even stranger, though, is the way the equations are done&#8211; they&#8217;re also rotated to be vertical, but the kanji characters are rotated as well. Not that the rotation changes the readability in any significant way, for me, but it&#8217;s kind of weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese physicist who I worked with as a post-doc spotted the Japanese edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in the wild, and picked up a copy. He sent along a scan of a couple of pages of the text, one of which I reproduce here: I had totally forgotten that Japanese&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/11\/how-to-teach-physics-to-your-d-40\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, Sideways<\/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":[67,18,142,7,51,37,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","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=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}