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G'day,
Would anybody else agree that derivations of key results in physics texts - school or college level - proceed in a manner that betrays no compunctions in the mind of the author about fore-knowledge of the pre-known form of the final expression?
I have a strong conviction that the great ones of yore, those responsible for determining the underpinnings of modern science, didn't proceed by thinking in such terms as, for example..."Next, dividing everything by j*w, I get:..."
Would appreciate a discussion.
wirefree
Would anybody else agree that derivations of key results in physics texts - school or college level - proceed in a manner that betrays no compunctions in the mind of the author about fore-knowledge of the pre-known form of the final expression?
I have a strong conviction that the great ones of yore, those responsible for determining the underpinnings of modern science, didn't proceed by thinking in such terms as, for example..."Next, dividing everything by j*w, I get:..."
Would appreciate a discussion.
wirefree