Re: force

[jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu]

Dewey Dykstra, Jr. says:
> ....
> Teaching kinematics in the traditional way seems to have too little effect
> on too many students concerning whether they notice change-in-motion and
> can themselves in their own minds and thinking separate change-in-motion
> from motion itself.  Hence in my view it does little to argue whether or
> not to teach kinematics in the traditional way *either* before or after
> forces.

What would be your view on teaching forces first (through statics), so that
they can then be used as a new tool in the teaching of kinematics?  I think
that was the original point.

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--James McLean
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