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While most of the 600 or so students in our introductory calculus-level
physics are domestic or Asian or Latin American, we have a few Europeans.
They tend, even when not particularly brilliant students, to be very
logical and systematic in their homework and exam solutions and to have a
very good background in physics. When I ask them, they typically did not
take physics in their last year of school, or the year before, or whatever,
but had some physics every week for many years. Same with chemistry and
biology. I suspect this is a good system, and wish we could incorporate
something of the sort in our educational system. Perhaps this is similar
to some of the "integrated" approaches that have been mentioned.
Laurent Hodges, Professor of Physics lhodges@iastate.edu
12 Physics Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3160
(515) 294-1185 (office) http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lhodges