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Wish he'd have taught at my highschool.
I had a high school physics teacher like that, did all sorts of "stunts", etc to try and impress the students and the school board.
The problem was, when she got to our Honors Physics class, and we started asking her more detailed questions, it quickly became obvious that she didn't know any physics beyond the stunts.
For instance, she actually stated "If you have negative acceleration, you must have negative velocity," which, if you know your physics, you will know is not true. (Positive velocity with negative acceleration means you are slowing down.)
Then, when we started asking her about the contradictions between her statements and the book, she started sending the straight A students that were doing the questioning to the office for detention (these were students who never had gotten in trouble in their whole school life.)
So, to make a long story short, I'll take the boring teacher that knows their subject matter over the flashy teacher that may be all flash but no substance.
Now that I think about it, he also did the bed of nails trick. And then there was the time he kept zapping himself in the electricity part of the course. Man, he was a freakin' nut, but he did know his shit.
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I had a high school physics teacher like that, did all sorts of "stunts", etc to try and impress the students and the school board.The problem was, when she got to our Honors Physics class, and we started asking her more detailed questions, it quickly became obvious that she didn't know any physics beyond the stunts.
For instance, she actually stated "If you have negative acceleration, you must have negative velocity," which, if you know your physics, you will know is not true. (Positive velocity with negative acceleration means you are slowing down.)
Then, when we started asking her about the contradictions between her statements and the book, she started sending the straight A students that were doing the questioning to the office for detention (these were students who never had gotten in trouble in their whole school life.)
So, to make a long story short, I'll take the boring teacher that knows their subject matter over the flashy teacher that may be all flash but no substance.
Lucky for his kids, he knows his stuff.
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The proof is in the pudding:
It may sound like all fun and games, but Riehle's AP Physics class has a reputation for being one of the hardest at Turpin.The kids sign up for it because they know what a great teacher he is, and they know they're going to learn a lot, even though they're going to have to work really hard," Mullins said.
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He brought in one of those electricity orb towers, forgot the name, along with a Jacob's Ladder(is that right?) for the electricity part, and gave you extra credit if you could stand to be shocked at a low voltage/amperage level a few times.
Though we didn't use water balloons for the velocity arc calculation activity, we did launch action figures, calculating their trajectories.
The most fun was the two-month long Rube Goldberg project, where the objective was to make a obstacle course/machine that wasted the most energy possible, potential mostly, though kinetic too. We also had great themes for them, like Star Wars, Toy Story, the Princess Bride, Who Wants to be a Millionare, etc.
Sorry:-/
Anyway, this sounds awsome, and reminds me of my chemistry teacher who made flamethrowers and chemical launch tubes out or a funnel, a compressed air hose, grain, and a lighter, and the chemical tube was just a skittle and some acid.
It was cool, I got hit by this fireball in class one day.
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Skaw had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
I think its part of their job description to do stunts, as a Physics teacher. And to own a potato cannon.
We have an utterly insane physics/electronics teacher. His eyes look in different directions so you're never sure who he's talking to and he just does the most ridiculous stunts.
Of course, most physics teachers appear to be insane so..
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How.... Skaw.... uughhhhhh:
I think its part of their job description to do stunts, as a Physics teacher. And to own a potato cannon.
Not mine. My highschool physics teacher was a dude named igor proleiko. He sat behidn his desk, and talked to us for 48 minutes a day. that's it.
Disclaimer: I'm just kidding, I love all living things.
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My teacher was a middle-aged Indian woman who spoke at us for 68 minutes a day [ 03-09-2004: Message edited by: Fazum'Zen Fastfist ]
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He also once led an attempt to get fired by running through the halls with a boombox blaring "Obla Di, Obla Da" with his class following behind, dancing.
Then he dressed up like Shakespeare and threw a TV off the roof.
Anyway, he had a habit of giving us vocabulary words whenever we did something silly or answered wrong in class. I made a bet with 'em (Since it was about 3/4 through the semester) that I could identify any one mineral he threw at me if we never had vocab words ever again. If I got it wrong, we'd have a count of 50 at the start of each week.
Everybody was bitching at me to not make it. But I shook his hand, he handed me a rock. Looked at it, turned it over, scratched it with my nail, tasted it, and said "Talc."
Everybody liked me after that. 
The stunt I remember best was pretty simple, he walked into class one day with a 2-Liter of A&W Root Beer in a tray, a blowtorch, and a metal rod. Turned on the blowtorch, and heated up the metal rod while giving his lecture until it was red hot. Then he dropped it into the 2-Liter, which ended up spraying root beer everywhere.
We also got to throw eggs at him while he hid behind a sheet, to demonstrate it wouldn't break the eggs until he held up a board behind the sheet. (a catalyst)
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My high school chemistry teacher did some pretty neat stuff too.
We got to light our Chem teacher on fire.
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Stuff such as
Poor old little Bobby Jones, [ 03-10-2004: Message edited by: Aury ]
His face we'll see no more
'coz what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4!
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Aury had this to say about Captain Planet:
My General Science teacher freshman year taught us little poems to remember stuff.. I thought it was retarded at the time, but, dammit, the shit stuck.
Stuff such asPoor old little Bobby Jones,
His face we'll see no more
'coz what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4!
hehe
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