Re: Curriculm

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From: Dave Button
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 15:00

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To all hands.
We have the first year course concentrate on math (general
stuff to make sure that everyone is on the same page) then
heavy on mechanics since tht's fairly easy to visualize,
measure, and they have some familiarity with.  Then we do
optics (lenses mirrors, etc) that is lots of hands-on.  In the
world of electricity, we work mainly on ohms law and simple
circuits.  The electronics department has the corner on the
electronics course.  Besides, they can stay up better than we
can since they have a clientele that wants to learn electronics
and electronics only.
Our second year course takes all of the exceptions (like
friction, wind resistance, rotation) to motion in a straight
line and then spends the entire time on it.  That way, most of
the students find that in first year physics, first semester,
that ty have to worry only about putting the calculus to the
physics, they don't have to learn all of it at once.

--
Dave Button -- jbutton@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu
Osbourn Park High School, Manassas, Virginia, 22111

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