Re: Is it necessary or helpful to teach work (W) in introductory HS physics? (long)

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Larry Smith wrote:
> At 9:26 AM -0700 6/28/02, Sean McKeever wrote:
> > I would say it is much more important to teach energy
> > storage and transfer rather than making work the crux
> > of your energy instruction. Work or more appropriately
> > working is the process of transferring energy into or
> > out of a system. This concept is based on the first
> > law of thermo and can be grasped by high school
> > students.
>
> The anti-energy-reification police will be knocking on your door shortly.

Mass and energy are the only true substances, everything else is an
illusion.   :)



Oh, well, add electric charge to the list too!

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