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-----Original Message-----[mailto:phys-l->bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Michael
From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 7:33 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Unit Conversions (was Mass and Energy)
In the story I told, the student refused to answer my questions. He
short-circuited the process I was trying to use and kept asking for a
simple answer for how to fix his
Okay, here come the assumptions. I think it is clear he did not want to
understand it better, at least not at that time. Since refused to take
the time to work it through with me and he kept asking for the simple
answer, I take that as a pretty good indication he did not want to work
it through, at least not at that time. I assume he wanted to get the
lab report done, hand it in, and go on to something else he would rather
do.