Professional interests
Articles & talks
- Two early papers on work and energy:
- 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
- For related later work on work and energy, see
- Chabay, R., Sherwood, B., & Titus, A. (2019). A unified, contemporary approach to teaching energy in introductory physics, AJP 87(7), 504-509, special issue on energy.
- The point-particle system, a talk presented by Bruce Sherwood and Ruth Chabay at a meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in San Antonio TX, August 1999.
- The zero of potential energy is not arbitrary, a talk presented by Bruce Sherwood and Ruth Chabay at a meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Rochester NY, July 2001.
- Choice of system and the energy equation, a talk presented by Bruce Sherwood and Ruth Chabay at a meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Sacramento CA, August 2004.
- Video of two pucks, one pulled from the center and the other from the edge.
A conference on the PLATO system
- While at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (1969-1985), I participated in the development of the PLATO computer-based education system. Here are videos from a conference in June 2010 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA on the 50th-year anniversary of the birth of the PLATO system:
- Brian Dear, the organizer of the conference, has published an excellent book on the history of PLATO, “The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture.”
- An American Journal of Physics article from 1971 by me on the PLATO physics program that is discussed in the Courseware session video.
Personal interests
