William ChopsWestfield wrote:

>> did your highschool geometry class cover things like mechanics
>> and Snell's law, since geometry was being handled in Physics?
> 
> Don't be snide.  For a brief moment of time in college, my
> physics, calculus, and EE classes were all overlapping in
> their coverage of matrix algebra/calculus (gradients?  I can't
> even remember the terms :-()  It was WONDERFUL.  I wish school
> was always like that, and I'm not convinced it shouldn't be.

I'm convinced it should be. Most people learn physics better in automobile
repair class (if they are interested in automobiles, that is :) and learn
math better in classes where math gets applied rather than treated for its
own sake.

Learning with a purpose is much more effective. I've given enough tutor
classes in math and physics in high school (or the German equivalent of it)
to have experience with why people "don't get it".

Gerhard

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