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I think many of us fall into this catagory.  I thought I knew physics
when I started teaching.  I think I LEARNED more physics the first 3
years I taught than in all my years in school.  Wehn I have student
teachers they are amazed that you can't just repeat the formula to
explain the physics.  How many of us have heard a A student say, I can
solve the problems, but I dont really understand what it is all about.

Alan Gibson

On Mon, 13 Mar 1995, Brian Patrick Martin wrote:

> I know first hand that someone who is adept mathematically can "do"
> physics well enough to get A's and B's in a college freshman Physics
> course and have little or no understanding of the underlying concepts. I
> got an A and a B in my 1st and 2nd semesters of Physics I in 1981 at an
> engineering school by playing the game of know the forula and solve for
> the missing variable. But test taking is not physics
>