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Re: Causation - how should we teach?

On Friday, Nov 14, 2003, cliff parker wrote:

. . . I am not yet convinced that we are doing
more harm than good when we encourage
introductory physics students to think of force
as the cause of an objects acceleration. . .

We are not doing "more harm than good."
Generations of good physicists, engineers
and inventors were thinking in that way.