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Just to post for the benefit of others who might be asking themselves similar questions: My thoughts: I am not a physicist, and if I understood or was able to apply general relativity, then I would not be in this dilemma in the first place. I see the reasoning behind your comments, and I wish to...

This is what I am saying. However, I strongly disagree that this view is pedantic given that students are asked if they "understand" why an approximation is true, when it is inherently false by its own label of "approximation". Is this so minute a detail when explanation is at hand? I have no...

I guess I didn't put it in perspective, in terms of usefulness, I certainly acknowledge the value of a classical physics education. However, in education I think that students should not be taught contradictory information for the sake of usefullness. I recall that in chemistry we learned...

I am a junior in high school enrolled in an AP Physics B course, and as you are probably aware the curriculum consists exclusively "classical physics". I understand the value of easy calculation in teaching physics without calculus, but I am concerned as to whether or not an education in...