Re: dumbing down of physics
- From: morrisjcroy@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:33:58 -0700
Indeed. This, however, sounds encouraging:
http://www.platowa.com
It looks like more or less like a one man protest petition.
Little wonder I haven't been able to get a teaching job. I'm far too
old-school and actually expect students to *learn* something in order to pass.
I suppose a more serious minded physics type HS kid can figure out
that reading and working out problems out of a book like Halliday &
Resnick, is a more efficient use of their time.
When I was in HS, I found a really old copy of Sears & Zemansky's
freshman physics textbook at some 2nd handed bookstore in those days.
It looked a lot better and more rigorous than the crappy textbook we
were assigned for junior year HS physics. Sears & Zemansky was very
popular from the 1940's to sometime in the mid-late 1960's, in the
years before Halliday & Resnick was published. (I never came across a
2nd handed copy of Halliday & Resnick at the time, and wasn't really
aware of its existence).
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