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["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

Actually it is suitable for both.  It is Minds on Physics published by
Kendall Hunt
http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/resources/mop
For conceptual students you would not use the penultimate activities in each
unit.  It is 6 books in paperback which form a complete series of activities
with the reader in the back of the book.  Unfortunately the sample
activities are no longer available, but if you wish I can send a couple that
used to be on the Web.

There are certainly things that I would change such as the use of change of
energy in the bar charts.  That is far too difficult, and just bar charts of
amount of energy are much better.

I have looked at Hewitt and not found his text to be as good.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> John,
>
> Would you be kind enough to send me some more info on the U Mass book?
> I'm considering a change of text for our introductory (college prep,
> but not honors) high school physics course, and am leaning toward
> Hewitt's Conceptual Physics. Would the U Mass book be appropriate for
> this group?
>
> Bob Yeend
> Justin-Siena H.S.
> Napa, CA
>
> On Nov 19, 2006, at 12:02 PM, John Clement wrote:
> > So perhaps the groups have not gotten together enough to make blanket
> > statements.  The U.Mass group is one of the few that has published and
> > integrated curriculum book which is coherent, and probably the only
> > one to
> > also have a good teacher's manual which explicitly gives the rationale
> > for
> > how and why the activities work.  I have found that most everything
> > they
> > have done is very accurate.
> >
> > John M. Clement
> > Houston, TX
>
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