Bruce Sherwood Department of Physics North Carolina State University

Professional Interests

• Matter & Interactions: An innovative introductory physics curriculum
• VPython: Real-time 3D Programming
• Teaching
  • Spring semester: PY 581 Modern Mechanics for in-service high school physics teachers
  • Fall semester: PY 582 E&M for in-service high school physics teachers
    See information about these courses on first page of the Matter & Interactions site
• Two early papers on work and energy (for related later work, see Matter & Interactions)
  • Sherwood, B. A. (1983). Pseudowork and real work. AJP 51, 597-602.
  • Sherwood, B. A., & Bernard, W. H. (1984). Work and heat transfer in the presence of sliding friction. AJP 52, 1001-1007
• Electric Fields, Cell Towers, and Wi-Fi, a video of a talk presented by Bruce Sherwood for staff of the Santa Fe NM city government to help them in their discussions with citizens and vendors:

  First half (32 minutes)

  Second half (32 minutes)

  The talk was given on June 26, 2008 and was recorded on DVD. The mpeg editor VideoReDo TVSuite was used to edit the video and to produce both a new DVD version and two 1 GB mpeg files which were converted to Flash video using Sothink Video Encoder.

• Geometric algebra:
  • The Hestenes website
  • The Cambridge University website

Personal Interests

• My essay in Physics Today
• My linguistic study of spoken Esperanto and of variation in Esperanto
• Esperanto League for North America (with links to many other sites)
• A new site for learning Esperanto through the web: http://www.lernu.net
• The Esperanto Society of the Carolinas and Virginia