Thursday, May 7th, 2009
One more physics education rant: Naming Names
By Thoreau
The ostensibly calculus-based introductory physics book by Knight is not really a calculus-based book. Sure, integrals and derivatives pop up here and there, but the vast majority of the problems can be solved without them, and calculus is hardly emphasized at all in most of the text and examples. The few problems that do [...]
