Interesting. One of the banes of my teaching of pre-med etc types was
that they came to me from a Chemistry course where they learned that every
problem is solvable by a proportion. IOW they knew only a linear world
and immediately extrapolated from a functional dependence to a linear
relation - hard to break!
Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Bellina" <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: 'plug & chug' problems
| Interesting comment, in particular the call for proportional reasoning.
| How many people actually attend to that...how many textbooks work on it
| explicitly? I suspect few.
|
| cheers,
|
| joe
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