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Jason Sterlace

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I teach physics. I live in Virginia, USA. I like when people support their assertions with evidence. he/him

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · May 7

Accidentally becoming an anti-AI hipster over here.

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think either term is good to use for individual forces, & I don't know that either should be preferred, really.

I don't think I've seen any evidence that either term is better to help students understand that the force must be pointed radially inward, vice outward, or tangentially.

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 3h

I would not take issue with someone using the words interchangeably, but I do want "radially" to be followed by "inward", since physicists definitely study effects that extend radially outward in various contexts.

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 4h

Listen, I say this because I mean this.

Lee Greenwood's music was the WORST PART of my May-to-August 1993 boot camp experience.

Cath RN, PhD 🎃 @headdoc35.bsky.social · 4h

As of October 2025, Bad Bunny has 100.9 million followers on Spotify.

Lee Greenwood has 447,000.

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 4h

I think there are two benefits to this way of thinking.

1) It helps to explain why "centripetal force" is never appropriate on a free body diagram. It's not a type of force, it's a description of the net force in specific circumstances.

2) It helps explain how we know when to say a = v^2/r.

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 4h

There she is!

Yesterday in her talk she mentioned that she doesn't make use of social media, and I took that to mean she doesn't have an account here. Toward the end of the day she noted that she made an account but just doesn't make use of it.

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 4h

I completely failed to live-tweet the rest of the meeting but it was great. I chaired the session on classroom demonstrations, and even got to see a rotation demo by the professor who taught me undergraduate E&M.

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

Our first plenary is Elissa Levy, teacher from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. I wish she was on BlueSky so I could tag her!

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the Fall 2025 meeting of Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, hosted by my alma mater, Virginia Commonwealth University!

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 2d

Look, history started when I was born.

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 2d

So far, the only good point I've seen any schools make about starting to bring it into the classroom is that schools should be teaching about AI use and misuse as a skill for career/life. But I haven't seen much of even that being done well.

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 2d

It's bad, actually.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

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