Jacobs Physics

My friend Allie of Apex Friends HS used the hashtag physicsAF. Quite deliberately, of course. 😀

Well now I know why my modified Atwood demo gave me the wrong tension on Monday…

Told the class I’d figure it out! Thank you! #iTeachPhysics

Yes! Thank you! I'm still replaying the game, and the sideline reporter calls her "Claire," so that's definitely her. She's my favorite in the short time I've been following rugby. (I just saw her bio on RugbyPass, and you get a shout out!)

Hey, @squidgerugby.bsky.social, could you help me? The play-by-play commentator for last weekend's Gloucester-Hartpury PWR match was *awesome*. I've heard her plenty of times before, in the World Cup and on other PWR matches last season. Who is she? Is she on Bluesky? [Thank you!] - greg

Seventeen. Plus the three you list above.

Would be more fun in traditional colors. Dog puke yellow doesn’t suit them.

If Arsenal (gulp) win the league, we will ALL remember that volley. Palace is a tough team playing very well.

Absolutely! I've gotta learn the Eze song. What a finish!

Premiership Women's Rugby back in season. @spuffyduds.bsky.social , the game is even more amazing on the 82" tv Shari bought me for my birthday. (Except for Harlequins' kit - that was abominable.) You gotta come watch with me some weekend!

Premiership Women's Rugby 2025-26 season starts this weekend! Yay!

Only two of the four games each week - the lesser two - are available to non-UK audiences. Boo!

Haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

"diabolically custom-configured bullshit statistic this side of a Surgeon General’s memo linking autism to circumcision."

1. I heard the stat and vomited a bit, too.
2. Not sure - is the SG memo parody? (Can't tell anymore.)
3. Does autism cause circumcision or vice/versa?

@miketanier.bsky.social

I have too many of these stories to post. I'll save them for my Michael Jordan - style retirement speech. :-)

In V = IR: What V? What R? It’s not difficult for students to figure out that a calculational circuits question requires the use of Ohm’s law, V = IR. The difficult part is understanding what voltage and resistan…

In V = IR, the real physics is in understanding what V goes with what R. How do I teach that at the lowest level? #iTeachPhysics

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Aaaaaaaaarrrgh!!!

Moultrie tried to wriggle by Marta. Thou Shalt Not Pass. Marta made stopping Moultrie look easy. #BAONPDX

I named a significant character in physics adventure fiction after Simone Charley... #BAONPDX

Best chance yet! I'll take a Castellanos header again for 200, please Alex? #BAONPDX

What was the yellow for? Dissent? I can't figure it out...

Except Sebastian the Crab, who's Caribbean. :-) (I've known American Sebastians, but none who go by Seb!)

I did not expect Seb Hines' nor Rob Gale's accents. In my head everyone is North American. <shrug> #BAONPDX

Watt was off, again. Not by much. Thorns playing with fire on their high line, but not burned yet. #BAONPDX

Hey, Orlando supporters, love the "trans people belong" sign. But could you put it on the near side of the goal so it's visible on camera rather than on the far side, where it's obscured by the netting? #BAONPDX

Moultrie saw that cross-field 60 yard pass the way an experienced AP Physics reader sees correctly-plotted data. Instinctive and immediate. #BAONPDX

Don't know how Orlando didn't score there. Whew. #BAONPDX

And they show a Thorns supporters section in Orlando! I've been part of small but significant Thorns visiting support at Gotham, North Carolina, Utah, Washington, Kansas City... this team travels! Unlike my NFL team, the Bengals. #BAONPDX

Who says there aren't timeouts in soccer? Of course, Portland has also had their keeper go down so the team can have a chat many a time... #BAONPDX

Damn! Reilyn Turner intended that as a shot! And it was going in except for the desperate touch by the goal keeper. What touch! #BAONPDX

Jesse Fleming waiting for the line to go down at Space Mountain before she takes the open shot... O well. #BAONPDX