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In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950505210130.14445D-100000@eagle.lhup.edu> "Donald E. Simanek" <dsimanek@EAGLE.LHUP.EDU> writes:

>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!

Um, nope.  :)  That's _Conceptual Physics_. _Thinking Physics_ is a sort 
of a "low-budget" paperback (though, if I'm going to use a movie analogy, 
"independent production" would be more apt).  It's a great book, and I can 
see the guys photo on the back of the book plain as day (in my mind, that 
is) but can't recall his name.  I'll check when I get back to school on 
Monday.

>> 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.

Good points.  Some of the physics questions in there are, in fact, killer.  
But there are quite a few that I think would be okay to ask, perhaps for a few 
extra points...  for an honors class...  Okay okay. But every teacher should 
have this.




  Matt Tuley                                              tuley@csn.org

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