Re: understand understanding, simple explanations, etc.

["Richard W. Tarara" <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>
> Then your strategy is simple. You don't try to explain a physical
> concept to someone unready to appreciate the explanation. That
> means you cannot explain concepts that require mathematics for
> their explanation to mathematically unprepared people. Now you
> understand the ultimate fulitlity of much of what is misrepresented
> as "conceptual physics".
>
> QED
>
> Leigh

So we teach Physics only to college junior or senior Math majors?  ;-(

Rick