🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 5 May 1995, Matt Tuley wrote:

> Two good books for this are _Thinking Physics_ (blanking on author, don't know
> publisher, don't have it handy)

Surely you must mean Paul G. Hewitt!

> and the quickly-becoming-a-classic _Flying
> Circus of Physics, with Answers_ by Jearl Walker (published by John Wiley and
> Sons).

Walker's book ought to be in every teacher's library. But few of the
things in there lend themselves to problems students in introductory
physics courses could be expected to handle (IMO). The first edition of
Walker's book did not have answers, but only library and literature
references. The fact that the publisher thought it necessary to add short
answers testifies to the fact that the answers are not that easy and
certainly not always obvious, even to those who know physics quite well.
To pose them to students as homeowrk might be intimidating. To urge them
to read the book and learn from it is entirely appropriate, and most
students find it fascinating.

I like to haunt used-book sales, and have found many out-of-print books
of great merit. One is:

Julius Sumner Miller _Millergrams_ (paperback)

        -- Donald