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Jearl WalkerJearl Walker, born 1945, is a physicist noted for his book Flying Circus of Physics, first published in 1975. At the time of this writing (January, 2005) he teaches physics at Cleveland State University. Walker has also revised and edited the series of books called Fundamentals of Physics with David Halliday and Robert Resnick. The "Halliday, Resnick and Walker" textbook has been well-known to science and engineering students for decades as "the gold standard" of sophomore-level physics texts. Jearl Walker is a well known popularizer of physics, and had appeared several times on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Walker is notorious for his popular yet controversial physics demonstrations. He has been known to stick his hand in molten lead, walk barefoot over hot coals, lie on a bed of nails, and pour freezing-cold liquid nitrogen in his mouth to demonstrate various principles of physics. Such demonstrations demonstrations are included in his PBS series, "Kinetic Karnival," produced by WVIZ-TV in Cleveland,_Ohio. Walker had authored the very popular Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American magazine from 1978 to 1988. During the latter part of this period, he had been the Department Chairman of the Physics Department at Cleveland State University. Walker's physics antics have amazed and delighted his students for years, and have made him one of the most popular professors at CSU. Cleveland State University Physics Department http://www.csuohio.edu/physics/CSUPhys.html
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