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It is my understanding that Martindale, Eastman, and Heath, authors of the
Canadian physics texts, Fundamentals of Physics:  An Introductory Course,
and Fundamentals of Physics: A Senior Course, have combined these texts
into a new version.  Is this the case and if so, is anyone using this
text?

I have used the latter text for a number of years and consider it to be an
excellent text, replacing PSSC which I used for years.  When 90 pages were
cut from the fourth edition of PSSC, subsequent editions always fell short
of the original story line, so important to PSSC.

Many of us working with high school students feel we do not have the same
quality of texts to select from as do college teachers.  Then there is the
added restraint of needing to work with a text for many years plus state
adoption problems.

The Conceptual Physics text by Hewitt filled a void for many physics
teachers for the following reasons.  Physics teachers love to teach
physics but in many schools there are insufficient numbers of students who
are for a variety of reasons, not motivated or prepared to take a
'standard' physics course.  That desire to teach physics motivated
teachers to seek ways to attract more students into their classes and that
is where Conceptual Physics filled a gap.  In my case, I have full classes
with students able to take a mathematically oriented physics course.  If
this were not the case, I would be using Conceptual Physics (have taught
from it) as a means to attract students to my classes so I could teach
physics.

Lowell Herr
Project PHYSLab
The Catlin Gabel School
Portland, OR 97225