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Re: Physics First



Lowell,

Please describe this curriculum in a little more detail, and provide a few
references. It sounds very attractive, and is news to me.

Thanks in advance,

Dan M

may be called, "baby physics." I use Uri Haber-Schaim' Physical Science
II materials. Totally through experiment, a student will develop the
ideas of thermal energy, tie it to electrical energy, move from
electrical energy to gravitational potential energy, on to elastic
potential energy through thermal energy, and finally to kinetic energy.
It is great material for freshman who have a basic understanding of
algebra. One of our teachers helped to pilot this material back in the
late '60's and we have used it with great success ever since.

Lowell Herr
The Catlin Gabel School


Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
Visiting Asst Prof, Purdue Univ; Adjunct Faculty, Indiana Univ at Kokomo
NEW NET ADDRESSES: danmac@nau.edu http://www.phy.nau.edu/~danmac