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Putting children off physics

02 Nov 2005

Ian Glynn believes that inadequate textbooks are partly to blame for the steady decline in the number of pupils taking physics at school

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About a year ago my 15-year-old granddaughter asked me to explain something in her physics homework.

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Ian Glynn is emeritus professor of physiology at Cambridge University, UK, e-mail img10@cam.ac.uk
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