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echo: educator
to: MORT STERNHEIM
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-05-25 19:52:00
subject: Re: Textbooks

MS>  DM>What is the Title?
MS> General Physics.  Not too catchy.  We had a better title originally 
MS> but we 
MS> got   flack from some profs.  Our original book was called Life 
MS> Science 
MS> Physics   because it had lots of applications to biology.  It was 
MS> designed 
MS> to appeal to   premeds etc.  Professors with students in the course 
MS> who 
MS> were not in the   biological sciences objected, and we changed the 
MS> name to 
MS> Physics.  (Creative   title, isn't it?)   When we put out a clone 
MS> with more
MS> math, we called it   General Physics. 
    Which sells better?
    When I took physics undergrad, math was a real "killer" for the many kids 
who were thinking about premed.
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