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Re: Choice of textbooks



At Simon Fraser University we use the CAPA system for problems, and so
we avoid requiring new editions of textbooks. There is a prescribed
textbook in our introductory courses, but the students are told that
older editions are satisfactory, and I make the table of contents of
the prescribed book freely available so they can check on the topics
to be covered. I do not recommend leaving students in an introductory
course without a recommendation. In a class of hundreds you may lose
some simply because they feel lost. Even a flawed text (I'm using
"Physics: Algebra/Trig" by Eugene Hecht) is better than none.

Leigh