Re: well written physics

[Hugh Logan <hlogan@ix.netcom.com>]

Ken Caviness wrote:
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> Je 09:30 PM 4/14/98 -0600, crawford j maccallum skribis:
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> > Someone wrote, exhorting the students to do the homeworks,
> > "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own
> > selves".
> > Sounds like the Bible to me, but I wouldn't know.
> > Crawford
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> It's James 1:22.
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> And notice verse 25, where a contrast is made between "a doer of the wo=
rk"
> and "a forgetful hearer"!
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> Ken
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	The quotation from James, i, 22 appears at the beginning of the problem
set on p. 253 of _The Classical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism_ by
Max Abraham and Richard Becker, Hafner, 1932. I am not sure if it
appeared in the predecessor texts by A. Foeppl and the later
revisions by M. Abraham. I do not find the quotation in the successor
text, _Electromagnetic Fields and Interactions_, Vol. 1 by R. Becker and
revised by Fritz Sauter, Blaisdell, 1964. While a graduate student, I
recall seeing these lines near the entrance to the room where graduate
assistants helped general physics students with their homework.

Hugh Logan