Slides for presentation to IOP Yorkshire's Stimulating Physics workshop at University of Leeds on Jan 07 2015. Workshop attended by ~ 60 physics teachers. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvgomEfQfKc

1. Philip Moriarty
School of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Nottingham
philip.moriarty@nottingham.ac.uk
@Moriarty2112
Guilty confessions of
a YouTube physicist

3. The power of YouTube
www.youtube.com/sixtysymbols
www.bradyharan.com

4. The power of YouTube
2,250,650

5. The power of YouTube

6. Beyond preaching to the converted
http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/metallizing-phi-by-phil-moriarty.html

7. Beyond preaching to the converted
http://monstersofgrok.com/
http://physicsfocus.org/philip-moriarty-when-the-uncertainty-principle-goes-up-to-11/

8. …can also preach to the choir

9. The day job…
Resolution Frontiers, Physics World Nov. 2010
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/indepth/44336
[Thanks to T. Trevethan (via
L. Kantorovich) for the video]

10. The vagaries of vacuum

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Mechanochemistry
An atomic difference engine?

12. Sweetman et al, PRL 106 136101
(2011); PRB 84 085426 (2011);
Beilstein J. Nanotech. (2012);
Toggling single bonds

13. Humanising scientists

14. But…

16. “I feel really smart now”

17. ….but any substantial leap in my
understanding of physics has
come not when I’ve felt smart
but when I’ve felt stupid.
Really stupid.

18. Explanation alone is
not education.
Entertainment is not
education.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/
great-lecture-what-was-it-about-again/2004222.article

19. Pseudoteaching?
Frank Noschese
High School physics teacher, New York

20. Peer instruction

21. Some concepts are just plain difficult

22. Einstein said some very clever things
in his time. This is not one of them.