An Outline of Physics #250043

The business of the teacher of First-year Physics seems to me to comprise three things. The first and chief of these, without which, indeed, the others are hardly worth while, is to inspire in the student a keenness for careful and scientific thought. Next in importance is instruction in the actual subject-matter of Physics. And the last is the teaching of matter useful for the subsequent career of the student to-day, especially, this cannot be entirely ignored.