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Re: acceleration

Actually I think you will find most students had either physical science or
IPC Integrated physics and chemistry. So they did have physics, but usually
an extremely ineffective course.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX


On Sunday, Nov 23, 2003, at 15:31 US/Pacific, Leigh Palmer wrote:

. . . The introductory physics course is misnamed since
it is not a first course. Students in this course come
from diverse high school physics courses. . . .

I wish this was also typical for the US; for most
of my students the first physics course is in the
university, not in high school.