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Started by Dave Button
Fri, 10 Jun 1994 15:00
Re: Curriculm
Author: Dave Button
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 15:00
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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