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For 1st year physics, do you perform derivations for your students when
you teach the lecture class? If you do, what do you hope and/or really
think they will get from this performance? Also (if you do), do you require
your students to reproduce these derivations at a later time? In what
form do you require this (on a test, in homework, in a written journal,
during recitations, etc.)? If you do not perform derivations, why not?
How do you present the material for the course without deriving
formulas? Do you expect them to learn the derivations from the book? If
so, are they responsible for those derviations (i.e. required to
reproduce them in some form)? In either case, how effective do you think
you are being with respect to the teaching of A) physics and engineering
majors, B) other science majors, and C) non majors.