Bruce Sherwood Professor Emeritus Department of Physics North Carolina State University

Professional Interests

• Matter & Interactions: An innovative introductory physics curriculum
  
• VPython: Easy real-time 3D programming, based on the Python programming language
• GlowScript: Easy real-time 3D programming in a web browser, based on the JavaScript programming language
• My blog: Occasional comments on the Matter & Interactions curriculum and related matters
  
• 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
• My talk on What is Light? What are Radio Waves? at a Santa Fe Science Cafe
• Videos from a conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA on the PLATO computer-based education project.
  While at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (1969-1985), I participated in the development of the PLATO system.
• Geometric algebra:
  • The Hestenes website
  • The Cambridge University website
• Cosmic Gall: a wonderful poem about neutrinos by John Updike

Personal Interests

• My essay in Physics Today
• My linguistic study of spoken Esperanto and of variation in Esperanto
• Esperanto-USA (with links to many other sites)
• A site for learning Esperanto through the web: http://www.lernu.net