The message form Roger Freedman prompted me to ask this
question. How many authors of widely used introductory
physics textbooks belong to phys-L? I would very much like
to hear their side of the story of "perpetual misconceptions".
Are they sufficiently free to discuss this in public? Are they
allowed (by publishers) to start presenting material differently,
for example, "energy before work", or "equilibrated charges
on capacitors in series can be unequal", or "no need for
Bernoulli", etc.
For those who may not know let my add that earlier editions
of UNIVERSITY PHYSICS of Young and Freedman were
authored by Sears and Zemansky. In other words the new
textbook (10th edition, 2000) has glorious history.