Re: Textbooks

[Troy L Lilly <tlilly@tenet.edu>]

I've had good results with Glencoe's book titled Physics, Principles and 
Problems (Ithink)  It is a new release of the old Merrill text.  Dr. 
Robert Clark at Texas A&M is one of the proof readers.
Best of luck 
Troy 
tlilly@tenet.edu


On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Don Boys wrote:

> Date:          Thu, 12 Dec 96 14:18 EST
> Reply-to:      phys-l@mailer.uwf.edu
> From:          "Roger P. Menard" <RXM36@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
> To:            phys-l@atlantis.cc.uwf.edu
> Subject:       Textbooks
>
> HELP!  I need suggestions for a first year algebra/trig based physics
> textbook.  If possible, include the publisher.  Thanks, Roger
>
>
> A couple of month's back two South Africans wrote an article in The 
> Physics Teacher _Cedric Leder was one author. They talked about
> some very successful use of Hewitt"s Conceptual Physics for
> this course. They did some comparison testing with another 
> class using a popular calc-based text, examining students sometime
> after the completion of the course. The conceputal group did very
> well, much better than the group doing calc-based physics.  I think
> we have to ask do we want to cover material, or give students the
> ability to retain something. 
> Don Boys, Physics
> University of Michigan-Flint
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> Flint MI 48502
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