When people say that students are not ready to do abstract thinking as
Freshmen, then recommend that they take Conceptual Physics as freshmen
instead of a math-based course, does that sound strange? (It may be my
geriatric state of mind.) Isn't conceptual physics exactly the abstract
part?? (As opposed to plugging numbers into equations.) Isn't the problem
we all have teaching physics teaching the concepts?? Because they are
abstract?? I'm not sure I get this.