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Re: Urgent need for mechanics pre-test

I have just been informed that need to give a different pre-test to one
of my high school physics classes. These students are in a magnet
program. I will be teaching a first year physics course based on the AP
B physics course (although they will not take the AP B test). Initially
I planned to use the pretest from my advanced/honors physics class but
that is not considered enough differentiation between normal and magnet
courses.

Does anyone have a pre-test that they would be willing to share? We'll
be covering mechanics and fluids in first semester. I'd prefer a test
that is heavy or even totally based on mechanics. I'd love to use one
of the standerd tests (FCI or similar). I have not participated in the
Modeling Physics Workshops (perhaps next summer) so I can not download a
copy from their site.

Thank you.

Dave

Dave, I think if you send a note to them and ask they will give you the pw.

Dewey


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Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr. Phone: (208)426-3105
Professor of Physics Dept: (208)426-3775
Department of Physics/MCF421/418 Fax: (208)426-4330
Boise State University dykstrad@email.boisestate.edu
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"As a result of modern research in physics, the ambition and hope,
still cherished by most authorities of the last century, that physical
science could offer a photographic picture and true image of reality
had to be abandoned." --M. Jammer in Concepts of Force, 1957.

"If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make
reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish
what is real about the universe without a theory...it makes no sense
to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what
reality is independent of a theory."--S. Hawking in Black Holes
and Baby Universes, 1993.
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