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Re: Textbooks. Was: FRICTION

Ed Schweber (edschweb@ix.netcom.com)
Physics Teacher at The Solomon Schechter Day School, West Orange, NJ
Subject: Textbooks. Was: FRICTION



Donald Simanek reminisced:

Ah, Eric Rogers' book! Another "old book" of great value, one to >inspire
teachers

This reminds me of the time I came across a first edition of Thomas's
calculus book. It was a solid gray bound tome with well done line diagrams
that sent a clear message that you are now playing with the grownups and
learning very serious material.

What then is the message of our current multi-colored textbooks? Perhaps its
that physics has been reduced to the Sunday comics.

Ed Schweber