Geoff Nunes
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@carrillophysics This year I'm trying @gregcjacobs suggestion (jacobsphysics.blogspot.com/2017/07/teachi…) which I learned about from @BelcherPhys
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More found antiques. The ends seem to go the wrong way for forceps, no pencil point so not a compass? Any ideas #iteachphysics?

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@aronczyk Loved the show on the cheese racks, but surprised none of your experts mentioned demurrage charges... See e.g. the compressed gas business.
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Help your students understand that orbiting is falling with a Newton's Cannon simulator. noragulfa.com/cannon #iteachphysics

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V5.7 of nPlot is out. Basics are the same, but now you can edit annotations, and saving a graph saves all curves plus annotation as a single file. Plus, it almost has a user manual. noragulfa.com (open to all, no ads, no tracking!) #iteachphysics

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@vincent_grgoire I'm leaning towards noe. We have a few other units with 3 letter symbols (think mol). Avoiding confusion with, say, newtons, seems worth the extra ink.
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@gnuphysics Just start using it and people will join :p What would its symbol be 🤔?
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@maalmeida85 Or maybe abbreviate as a noe. 3.6 noe is less of a mouthful, and at the same time offers the possibility of amusing confusion.
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