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Education and outreach

Education and outreach

A funny thing happened on my way to class

03 Jun 2021
Taken from the June 2021 issue of Physics World.

Joanne O’Meara on the benefits of injecting a little humour into physics teaching

Graph showing results from a student survey
(Courtesy: Joanne O’Meara)
As I strode across campus to teach my second-year electricity and magnetism class, it suddenly struc

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Joanne O’Meara is a professor of physics at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, e-mail omeara@uoguelph.ca
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