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Please read the following article by David Hammer, titled “Two Approaches to Learning Physics.” It appeared in the December 1989 issue of //The Physics Teacher//, when Hammer was a graduate student at the University of California. Now he’s a professor of physics and education at the University of Maryland-College Park, where he continues to write about how students learn science. []

Next, read the following urban legand concerning an answer to a college physics question.

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Fill out the following form regarding the two items above.

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If you would like the answer to the last question, you can watch this lecture by Dr. Eric Mazur, a physics professor at Harvard University. It is a long lecture, but will give you a good idea of my philosophy and the data behind my physics education practices. []