Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit T - Some Processes are Irreversible - Softcover

Moore, Thomas A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072397152 ISBN 13: 9780072397154

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher 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 Higher Education
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072397152
• ISBN 13: 9780072397154
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208