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A couple of month's back two South Africans wrote an article in The
Physics Teacher _Cedric Leder was one author. They talked about
some very successful use of Hewitt"s Conceptual Physics for
this course. They did some comparison testing with another
class using a popular calc-based text, examining students sometime
after the completion of the course. The conceputal group did very
well, much better than the group doing calc-based physics. I think
we have to ask do we want to cover material, or give students the
ability to retain something.