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.... Principle of Virtual Work. I don't teach
this (nor in fact did I learn this) in introductory mechanics; I'm not sure
if my experience is typical or not (i.e. if PVW is a tool that most physics
students get in their first course). As far as I can see by my quick survey
of the indices of intro calculus based physics texbooks in my office, none
of them talk about virtual work. It is in Goldstein, which must have been
the first place I saw it (so grad school). Do engineers see it sooner than
physicists?