Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit C: Conservation Laws Constrain Interactions - Softcover

Moore, Thomas A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072291524 ISBN 13: 9780072291520

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Synopsis

SIX IDEAS THAT SHAPED PHYSICS is the 21st Century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed SIX IDEAS to teach students:--to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations--to solve realistic problems--to resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics--to organize the ideas of physics into an integrated hierarchy

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About the Author

Thomas A. Moore is a professor in the physics department of Pomona College. He graduated from Carleton College in 1976, and earned an M. Phil. in 1978 and a Ph. D. in 1981 from Yale University. He then taught at Carleton College and Luther College before taking his current position at Pomona College in 1987, where he won a Wig Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1991. He served as an active member of the national Introductory University Physics Project (IUPP), and has published a number of articles about astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, detection of gravitational waves, and new approaches to teaching physics. His previous books include A Traveler's Guide to Spacetime (McGraw-Hill, 1995) on special relativity, and a six-volume introductory calculus-based physics text called Six Ideas That Shaped Physics (McGraw-Hill, 2003).

Synopsis

"Six Ideas That Shaped Physics" is the 21st Century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed six ideas to teach students: to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations; to solve realistic problems; to resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics; and to organize the ideas of physics into an integrated hierarchy.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072291524
• ISBN 13: 9780072291520
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304