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Re: about the LIST OF TEXTBOOK MISCONCEPTIONS



Ludwick said:
Everything can be turned into a joke, at a price. In this case the price
is killing a good intention. I think that something good can come from
our serious attempt of identifying textbook misconceptions.

But I hate to be a censor. So let me suggest that the author removes items
number 6 and 8 and repost the list. If not, they will remain as entered.
I see nothing wrong with suggestions for rephrasing. But, except for
obvious typos, only the authors of items should change them. And new
threads can be generated to discuss items, if necessary. I never saw
item 7 in a textbook. We are focusing on common textbook misconceptions,
not on student misconceptions, I suppose.


7) Batteries are sources of charge


I agree. On the other hand I bet that it would not be too hard to find at
some level the suggestion that batteries are the source of "current" or of
"electricity." Don't have a specific reference though.

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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
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