Cliff`s Nodes – Editorials from The Physics Teacher - Softcover

Swartz, Clifford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801883075 ISBN 13: 9780801883071

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Cliff Swartz is a passionate advocate for better physics teaching, based on a curriculum that is quantitative and includes experiments "with a purpose." Here, in a collection of editorials written for "The Physics Teacher" magazine - along with a few new ones - he cajoles, chides, preaches, and provides a good swift kick in the intellectual pants for those who are working to share physics with the next generation. Gleaned from a lifetime in the lab and in the classroom, Swartz's book is chock-full of wisdom for neophytes as well as seasoned veterans. Favorite editorials such as "Practically Perfect in Every Way" and "Justifying Atoms" provide the reader with an insider's view of the state of physics teaching over the three decades that Swartz edited "The Physics Teacher". His advice and opinions - often thought-provoking or controversial - should not go unheeded.

About this title

About the Author

Clifford Swartz is a professor emeritus of physics at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the former editor of The Physics Teacher and has written numerous physics texts for students from kindergarten to graduate level. He was the recipient in 1987 of the Oersted Medal, the most prestigious award of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is the author of Back-of-the-Envelope Physics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801883075
• ISBN 13: 9780801883071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360