A parable of physics teaching assistants: elegance, battlefields, and intimacy

Fencing with an unfamiliar foe. Source: “Fencing Match between St.-Georges and ‘La chevalière D’Eon’” on April 9, 1787, by Abbé Alexandre-Auguste Robineau (1747–1828) – www.royalcollection.org.uk, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11260912 Invitation or Attack? As an undergraduate, I took physics because I wanted to go to medical school. Physics promptly took over the structure of my week. Three […]