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Can you recommend introductory physics book for high school that contains E & M ?
It should not have any integrals.
It should not have any integrals.
Probably more than one, but I do not know the market of those. OpenStax has a big advantage in that you can have a real close look at whether it matches your needs beforehand! And you can order a print copy!Is there a good "classic" book available?
I cannot recommend any such book. To the contrary, I'd strongly decline to use such a book. Physics without calculus is incomprehensible to begin with. The most bad of all didactical sins is the invention of what's called "calculus-free physics".Can you recommend introductory physics book for high school that contains E & M ?
It should not have any integrals.
but we learned E&M at high-school using line, surface, and volume integrals.
Well, in polish high-school people only learn derivatives and that is during last year. And as a high-school teacher I can assure you you can do a lot without calculus. Of course you can't derive e.g. formula for magnetic induction of an infinite line with a current, but you can use this formula in different exercises. In polish physics olympiad there are a lot of problems that of course can be easily dealt with calculus, but also can be dealt without it, by using some fancy reasoning. That's how you check if someone understands the physics, not just know how to do an integral or derivative. For example consider two bodies moving on a straight non-parallel lines. What is the shortest distance between them? You can use derivatives, but also you can just change your frame of reference to one in which one of the bodies is at rest and then calculate the distance between this body and a line on which the other one is moving 🦜
It is by far more important to be curious, willing to learn, and ambitious than it is to choose a nice book or video lecture. And in my opinion, pencil and paper are more important than fancy youtube clips. It sticks more if you write it yourself, rather than enjoying the movie.I am mainly looking for some modern book with media links in the book.
And in my opinion, pencil and paper are more important than fancy youtube clips.
Why do you want to teach EM before students have the tools to learn it easily or correctly?
What are the chances that whatever you teach them, they will just have to relearn later with better tools?
I also can't believe that in Poland there is really no calculus involved in high-school physics.
You cannot even say what a "covariant field theory" is without calculus. Of course you don't need a degree in math to use vector calculus as necessary for physics. In fact you need only pretty intuitive ideas at the high-school level.
I also can't believe that in Poland there is really no calculus involved in high-school physics. Even in Germany, where the quality has monotonously decreased within the recent years, there's still some use of high-school calculus in physics.
Here in Canada, provincial governments have responsibility for education, so each province varies, but not by much. I am not sure of any province that includes calculus in its physics courses. In Alberta there certainly isn't any.I couldn't imagine that it can anywhere be worse than in Germany concerning STEM at high schools. That's really sad.