[I]t was no longer a television camera at the back of the room. It was now a production, with programs, and all the production values... [I]t... evol… - David Goodstein

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[I]t was no longer a television camera at the back of the room. It was now a production, with programs, and all the production values... [I]t... evolved into something far beyond anything I had imagined.

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About David Goodstein

(April 5, 1939 – April 10, 2024) was an American physicist and served as professor of physics and as Vice-provost at the . He wrote several books, including (1996). In the 1980s he was the director and host of , an educational television series on physics that was adapted for high school use and translated into many other languages. The series garnered more than a dozen prestigious awards, including the 1987 Japan Prize for television.

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Alternative Names: David Louis Goodstein

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The raw material for... both the television programs and the textbooks... was a set of verbatim transcripts of the lectures delivered by Goldstein in the revised Caltech physics course. ...[T]he material would be would be presented at two levels, at least in the textbooks if not in the television programs. The upper level... for physics and engineering majors... [t]he other textbook, which corresponds to the level of the television programs... for a more general audience. Nevertheless, it... include[d] differential and integral calculus... presented as they had arisen historically... as part of... mechanics. Mastering... simple... s and s would make physics easier to understand than... the pseudocalculus... in many college physics courses. ...Liberal Arts students had little difficulty learning calculus. ...[T]his was a "major pedagogic triumph" ...A primer, written by Apostol ...was added to the ...arsenal of aids ...

Intellectually, technically and philosophically, physics and television are two separate cultures with almost no bridges between... [I]t is... time consuming and arduous... to span the gap... [T]here is no one... [at] Caltech... capable of reading, much less writing, a television script competently. ...[T]here is no one on the production side who knows enough... physics... to plan an important sequence, much less write a script or produce a program. This situation is a symptom of the malady of science illiteracy that is intended to help cure..."

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I... remember one morning at... breakfast, reading the ... story that had given $10 million a year for fifteen years to make telecommunications materials for higher education. ...[H]e created ...the Annenberg CPB Foundation ...to give out Annenberg’s money. ...I ...got in touch with Sally Beaty and ...KCET ...and we wrote a proposal. ...KCET ...was on the verge of going belly-up. And they tried to load the entire overhead of the station on our project. ...[W]e got the award—with KCET not involved. ...[N]ow we had no flagship station, but we had the money ...

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