{"id":911,"date":"2008-10-16T03:52:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T08:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=911"},"modified":"2008-10-16T03:52:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T08:52:25","slug":"letting-mechanics-leave-the-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/911","title":{"rendered":"Letting Mechanics Leave The Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phyzblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/letting-go-of-newtonian-mechanics.html\">Letting go of Newtonian mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conscientious physics teachers fear that without a thorough understanding of motion and forces, students will not be able to grasp subsequent topics in physics. This turns out to not be the case. Very little of the sky falls if you move on from mechanics before it&#8217;s fully fermented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letting go of Newtonian mechanics Conscientious physics teachers fear that without a thorough understanding of motion and forces, students will not be able to grasp subsequent topics in physics. This turns out to not be the case. Very little of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics","tag-teaching-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}