I was not one of those many AAPT members to whom Lawrence Ruby refers, that in 2007 received Elisha Huggins' booklet containing the first chapter of a physics textbook espousing the new educational philosophy of teaching special relativity first in elementary physics.
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E. R. Huggins, “Teaching Relativity in Week One,” based on the CD text Physics2000, and “Principle of Relativity,” Chapter 1 of Physics 2000; available at http://Physics 2000.com.
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Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler, Spacetime Physics (Copyright 1963, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1966), p. 108.
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Lev B.
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