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In teaching the physical sciences, a significant challenge lies in thestudent's tendency to consider the scientific world and the "real" world asseparate. For example, Newton's 1st Law of Motion states that an object inmotion remains in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an externalforce. However, our experience tells us that most objects keep moving only aslong as someone or something pushes on them. One key to understanding physicsis the ability to abstract the "law" from a reality which also includesfriction and other effects. In this article we describe a college course fornon-science majors, The Physics of Dance. The central theme of this course isthe personalization of the physics of motion by making each student the object.With this approach we give students not only scientific tools to measure andunderstand but personal involvement to experience forces and motion. Thiscombination provides a bridge that connects the science to reality.

Newton's 2nd Law and the Physics of Dance