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...I often disagree with Jim on things (e.g. mass/rest mass/rest energy termino-
But *later* some conscientious teacher is going to have to unteach that
stuff along with all the cartoon physics the kids learned from TV.
What is worse is that those kids are going to be the teachers soon enough
and will be saying -- as we hear frequently now -- hey this is what I learnt
in school and its good enough for me now.
I personally see no reason to talk about a tidal bulge. One could
productively talk about tidal FORCES which *do* make a daily march around
the Earth. Why pollute the student's heads with more cartoon physics?
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But I urge that we teach no false doctrine.
...This is one of my pet peeves. The Bohr Atom was dead by the mid-20s (after
Here's a quote from a geology text published in 1996 by DC Heath
"Electrons orbit at specific distances from the dense, positively charged
nucleus..." Jim has to like this! Anybody have any pull with the editors
at DC Heath?
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