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BC,
I'm keen to know which textbooks, suitable for use in the high school curriculum, have met with enthusiastic approval from Denker/Clement/Cleyet? The one that is as incisive and clearly written as it is flawless in its presentation of physics.
If Hewitt is disastrously flawed, is the Holt (Serway) book to be preferred? McGraw Hill (Zitsewitz?) Active Physics (Eisencraft)? Or is it, as I suspect, that they are all fatally flawed and should be distrusted by virtue of having an ISBN?
Perhaps you have had to say this for the N’th time because high school physics teachers are rightly ignoring you. There is nothing wrong with teaching Special Relativity using time dilation, length contraction, and mass increase at the high school level. My unit on Special Relativity is based upon Conceptual Physics and Lew Epstein’s “Relativity Visualized” and his “Thinking Physics” books.
PBATA doesn't convince me, and have you read J. Denker's review of P. Hewitt's text?
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Review of Hewitt, _Conceptual Physics_