Although we experience motion simply as displacement, we study it through complicated concepts such as acceleration, force, and mass, departing from our everyday experience. But it looks like we can stay attached to our primordial notions of time and length without appealing to any other concepts and still have interesting results.

Topics
Newtonian mechanics, Educational assessment, Teaching
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