At 01:20 PM 3/7/2002 -0600, Gene Mechtly wrote: >True, Jim (E), but teaching conversion skills should be a separate >lesson (with a sunset provision for phase out after 20xx); and not mixed >with the more important demonstration that in SI the unit of energy of all >kinds is the joule, and that the unit of power of all kinds is the watt. > >*Isolate* conversion burdens as much as possible from teaching the basic >study of the SI, its simplicity, and its applications. For example, draw >on Pat's database of examples in SI.
Hmmmm.... I think I like this! I'll have to restructure my lessons a bit, but you've given me a good way to improve them. Jim
