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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Sunburn.Stanford.EDU!pratt
  3. From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
  4. Subject: Re: Recommend high school physics text?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan9.164442.8373@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  7. Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University.
  8. References: <1993Jan8.194526.20114@tc.cornell.edu>
  9. Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:44:42 GMT
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  12. In article <1993Jan8.194526.20114@tc.cornell.edu> rfeldman@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Bob Feldman) writes:
  13. >My son is frustrated because his high school physics textbook doesn't
  14. >explain how mathematical formulas have been derived.  Can anyone recommend
  15. >a textbook that will give clear, concise, mathematical derivations
  16. >of formulas used in high school physics?
  17.  
  18. Apart from being overly encyclopedic, Matt McIrvin's reply to this was
  19. right on the ball.  The one-sentence summary is, which formulas is he
  20. complaining about so one can tell whether the book is short on
  21. derivations or your son is impatient with basic axioms.
  22. -- 
  23. Vaughan Pratt                There's safety in certain numbers.
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