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To: dalereed
She is competent in algebra and geometry, just not calculus.

But thanks.

68 posted on 07/10/2008 8:30:00 PM PDT by free me
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To: free me
Conceptual Physics discusses the concepts and is fairly light on the math...

I like the MIT lectures on the web, too.

72 posted on 07/10/2008 8:41:10 PM PDT by Amelia
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To: free me
She is competent in algebra and geometry, just not calculus.

Reminds me of a story about P.A.M. Dirac. He was to give a lecture on Quantum Mechanics and the host asked him if they would need to know Group Theory to follow the lecture, and Dirac assured him they would not. When he gave the lecture it was Group Theory, Group Theory, Group Theory. The host enquired afterward, "Didn't you say there would be no Group Theory?" Dirac replied, "No, I said you would need no PRIOR KNOWLEDGE of Group Theory."

73 posted on 07/10/2008 8:44:13 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: free me

Not sure but I think I still have one of my college texts in physics.

Next time I go to my home in Glendale I’ll look.

If I still have it you can have it.

At 71 I don’t thinl I’ll still need it!


74 posted on 07/10/2008 8:45:58 PM PDT by dalereed (both)
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To: free me
If youn get a rel old text just remember that in the 50s they still taught that electricity flowed from negative to positive.

With the invention of the diode they had to reverse that.

76 posted on 07/10/2008 8:48:49 PM PDT by dalereed (both)
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You really don’t need calculus for physics. The formulas have already been solved and easy to work.


84 posted on 07/11/2008 7:11:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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