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Post by waterjag on Jan 15, 2006 5:05:50 GMT -5
Many physic departments in universities are having to shut don beause of a lack in money. I beleive this is the case, in europe because anyone who wants to do physics should go to a specilaized, top university for physics.
There is also a shortage of physic teachers, somewhat due to a lack of interest in the field probably.
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Post by jeremy on Jan 15, 2006 18:52:50 GMT -5
I noticed in New Zealand this is kind of happening in high schools - and not just with physics. The physics curriculum has been reduced to a few simple things, partly because what we're taught in maths class is not advanced enough to enable a reasonable grasp of the concepts of physics, so the first half of the year in physics we have to learn calculus and things like that. Twenty years ago, that level of maths would already be known to a sixteen year old student about to start studying physics. Also, the entire topic of einstein's theories of relativity was dropped from the high school curriculum about ten years ago. Because I was interested I learnt them from an old textbook. They were challenging to learn, but I really think to drop them from high school physics is insulting to the students.
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Post by Shaelyn on Jan 15, 2006 21:18:31 GMT -5
this concerns and disturbs me...I hadn't seen this yet around here, I took physics in HS, that was 5 years ago...I took pre-calculus in HS as well. it was...an odd class, but I understood the material easily. still...that's a shame.
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Post by radaeron on Jan 19, 2006 15:52:46 GMT -5
Physics.. Aiya.. I dropped that as soon as I possibly could. For the first 4 years of it I never understood it, and only managed to understand some for the last year. I passed the test, but despise the subject entirely
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