title: Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 1: 45 New Force and Motion Assessment Probes
author: Page D. Keeley
description: Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award Winner --Association of Educational Publishers
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  # **RATIONAL  
  MECHANICS**
  
  
  **The Classic Notre Dame Course**
  
  
  **R. Catesby Taliaferro**
  
  
  **Edited by**
  
  
  **A. Hahn, T. Banchoff,  
  and F. Crosson**
  
  
  **DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.**
  
  
  **Mineola, New York**
  
  
  _Copyright_
  
  
  Copyright © 2014 by the University of Notre Dame
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Bibliographical Note
  
  
  _Rational Mechanics: The Classic Notre Dame Course_ is a new work,  
  first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2014.
  
  
  International Standard Book Number
  
  
  _eISBN-13: 978-0-486-31573-7_
  
  
  Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation  
  49982001 2014  
  [www.doverpublications.com](http://www.doverpublications.com)
  
  
  # **Contents**
  
  
  [Photographic Portrait of R. Catesby Taliaferro](fm1.html)
  
  
  [Autobiographical Remarks by R. Catesby Taliaferro](fm2.html)
  
  
  [Catesby Taliaferro: A Memoir by Otto Bird](fm3.html)
  
  
  [Further Biographical Remarks by John Derwent](fm4.html)
  
  
  [On Being a Student of Dr. R. Catesby Taliaferro by Thomas Ba