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Shape of things- plates.

If you have say a 15 centimetre long piece of rigid plastic and the weighing scale's tray is only 10 centimetres, what is an estimate of the error that introduces in the measurement assuming the weight is still within normal parameters for the weighing scale. I was wondering what the approximate...

I taught him about 3 times in the previous month.The student is a bit intellectually handicapped and ESL. He is in junior high school student so he is about 12 years old. From my principal in this tiny school (has only two students now used to have a few more) Good evening! How are you...

The only ESL issue is limited vocabulary. Avoid using terminology.

I earn 3500 yen per hour. I don't own a car. I don't paid for anything other teaching in the room. The school is one station away from Shinjuku Station.

Thanks for replies but this is syllabus question alone with very basic physics. I am teaching one child in a room . Maybe he can bring a baseball bat and ball from school. I choose baseball because he plays it.

Classroom has next to nothing- I bring all for any demonstrations and they pay for nothing beyond some not very good or appropriate textbooks and the principal who was an engineer has some books but they aren't helpful for this course material. I graduated from university in Engineering but that...

Thanks for your reply. Conservation of momentum. The other parts are way too advanced for him. As I pointed out they haven't done gravity at school. He is going have trouble if I try to explain drag and lift.

My student is very basic in physics in first grade of a Japanese junior high school and the physics is so basic such as they were teaching about forces and not yet gravity. He is pretty good at reading English and formulating a speech but the lessons are not very responsive. I worked on...

Thanks for all your replies.

I am teaching an ESL student in English very basic physics like friction and forces- it needs to be very simplified with quantitative explanations- a lot more easy to understand with pictural descriptions and I basically have to show what I bring from home and this being Japan the resources...

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Reversing the polarity is a mainstay of science fiction but what is the worst example of incorrect wiring putting the negative into positive and reverse leading to serious electrical problems.

No he is taking away abstract concepts. Pi is a abstract concept trying adding pi it solves nothing physicists get confused because they try to solve a real spheres volume using the concept Pi rather the real number which will be less generally in value.. So is infinity one of worse defined...

My son occasionally pulls plugs from powerpoints. We tried to get a powerpoint cover but the strong tape here in Japan is weak and it fell off easily. I was just wondering how much electric shock he might get from pulling out the cord when the device (a fan) is operating. Its a two prong...