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
• 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