Re: summaries and thanks

["Richard W. Tarara" <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

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> From: Carl E. Mungan <cmungan@uwf.edu>

> ps: I am surprised some people are using Giancoli without any calculus
> coreqs or prereqs. Or have they eliminated calculus in the most recent
> edition? 

Giancoli does have an Algebra based textbook.


> I'm also surprised that there aren't more folks making lab
> optional, to attract distribution students who may not need a lab, only a
> science lecture course. But maybe most of you can afford to run a
separate,
> conceptual-type course for such students. We can't.

I think you'll find many of us (at least on this list) view an introductory
physics course (at any math level) without lab as a pedagogical
abomination.  My college, in a rare moment of great wisdom, long ago
established a 2-semester laboratory science requirement of ALL students. 
Some of the newer types of courses essentially turn the whole course into a
laboratory experience and could therefore get by without a specific
'scheduled' lab.

Rick