那年我受聘于耶鲁大学,负责初等物理。这门课是所有大一新生的必修课,他们刚走出高中校门,对大学老师授课方式还不适应。不但理科基础差的学生上这门课觉得吃力,就连基础好的学生也觉得困难重重。上到第三堂课,繁难的定理和公式越来越多,学生们也越来越沮丧,课后,一个叫吉姆的大男孩对我说:“弗雷特博士,我的理想是当个作家,以后用到物理知识的可能性很小,我只要及 That year I was hired at Yale University, responsible for elementary physics. This course is a required course for all freshmen. They just walked out of high school and did not adapt to the teaching methods offered by university teachers. Not only students with poor science backgrounds find it hard to work on this course, but even basic, good students find it very difficult. Up to the third class, with more and more difficult theorems and formulas, and students getting frustrated, after class, a big boy named Jim said to me: ”Dr. Fred, my ideal is when A writer, after the possibility of using physical knowledge is very small, I only and