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Re: Why Physics First?



On Thu, 10 October 2002, "RAUBER, JOEL" wrote:


I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. When I
was in high
school 71-75 in Georgia, the fairly standard curriculum was
what I'd call
Physics First and Last. They didn't call it that back
then,
the 9th graders
took something called "Physical Science" which
was about 70%
physics and 30%

That set of courses is fairly common in Georgia still but
the expectations have changed. Physical Science is now much
closer to 50/50 chem and physics. But, at least from a
physics point of view, the big problem is that only 3 years
of sciences are required to get a college prep diploma so
most students don't take physics.

Dave
a Georgia physics teacher

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.