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Is this an evidence-based belief?

Possibly interesting: "Causal reasoning in understanding Newton’s third law" Cheng Chen, Lei Bao, Joseph C. Fritchman, and Hemin Ma...

One does not tell the student that cause and effect do not exist. One tells the student that there is no causal relationship in the...

One of the problems with education in the USA is that it's up to each state to decide upon what it will and won't teach. In some states...

It's not a demand. It's a generalization based on observation. It involves taking two readings on a bathroom scale and observing that...

There is no asymmetry in the physics. One can introduce Law III with no reference to any equations. Hold a bathroom scale against a wall...

It's not the symmetry that requires forcing, because Newton's 3rd is already symmetrical. It's the fake asymmetry that is forced into it...

The force exerted on the wire is the cause of the wire stretching. But this is not an example of the Third Law. This is: The hanging...

They're radial. If you have a spherically symmetric body the field lines are perpendicular to the surface of the body, which is the...

Not sine, the Law of Sines. For any triangle the length of a side is proportional to the sine of the angle opposite to it.

I guess I don't get it. I can write equivalent versions of your two phrases, placing "if" in the other one ... “If the rocketship is...

We're here to discuss different opinions, not to argue from authority. I apologize if I came off as doing the latter.

Not at all. I'm offering an opinion, not a mandate. I didn't mean to imply that all students are left with these misconceptions, or...

Well, the first edition of the book where I took the "composition" from was published in 1990. I've got a later copy of it on my...

The only bending over backwards is when uttering the phrase "action-reaction" instead of "Third-Law pair of forces". The former is a...