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That students come to us as Aristotelian thinkers, and usually leave the
same way, is nothing new. It has been one of the major points pushed by
PER over the years and one of the things the Force Concept Inventory test
clearly will show. Several programs have been developed by the PER folks
(I'm sure we'll here from some) to address this, and many DO produce
greatly improved FCI scores. Whether or not two years later the students
have back-slid, I don't know. What I (think) I do know is that there is no
way that spending a week or even two on Newton's Laws will really move
students toward a Newtonian view of nature.