Understanding Physics - Hardcover

Cummings, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471973130 ISBN 13: 9780471973133

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2030

Synopsis

Using an interactive learning strategy, this text provides a hands on introduction to the fundamentals of Physics. Built on the foundations of Halliday, Resnick, and Walker’s FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS 6e, this text represents the latest methods in physics instruction. Incorporating new approaches based upon Physics Education Research (PER), this book is designed for courses that use computer–based laboratory tools, and promote Activity Based Physics in lectures, labs, and recitations. Incorporates a narrative flow and touchstone examples that supports student learning.

• Emphasis on observation and experimentation – the experimental evidence for many of the physical laws and relationships discussed in the narrative have been presented in graphical form.
• Incorporates active learning – the story line is reinforced by the use of Reading Exercises that help students focus on thoughtful reading of the text sections in each chapter.

Alternative problem selections – based on the authors’ knowledge of research on student learning difficulties, these new problems require careful qualitative reasoning and explicitly connect conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving.

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About this title

From the Back Cover

“Effective student learning comes from ‘brains–on’ activities—those times when students are thinking hard and struggling to make sense of what they are learning. Effective instruction happens when teachers create environments in which students are encouraged and helped to engage in those kinds of activities.”—JOE REDISH, Teaching Physics.

Understanding Physics, by Cummings, Laws, Redish, and Cooney, is designed to support this type of instruction and this type of learning. Built on the foundations of Halliday, Resnick, and Walker’s Fundamentals of Physics 6e, this text is designed to work with learning strategies such as microcomputer–based labs and interactive lectures that ate increasingly being used in physics instruction. In doing so, it incorporates new approaches based upon Physics Education Research (PER), aligns with courses that use computer–based laboratory tools, and supports Activity–Based Physics in lectures, labs, and recitations.

A set of related materials collectively known as The Physics Suite is available to support active learning in both the lecture and the lab.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2030
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471973130
• ISBN 13: 9780471973133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1416