Understanding Physics

by Cassidy, David C.; Holton, Gerald James; Rutherford, F. James

• ISBN13: 9780387987552
• ISBN10: 038798755X
• Edition: Student
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Understanding Physics follows the trail blazed by Project Physics, but incorporates the most recent advances in understanding how students learn physics and where they encounter difficulties, promotes a more active engagement with the material than its predecessor, and offers more flexibility to instructors in adapting the course to the needs of their students and to their own needs and interests. Thus, for eample, the text is divided into two self-contained semesters which may be studied in either semester and in any order. The course materials comprise The textbook The Student Guide, containing inquiry-based laboratory investigations and additional materials This Instructor Guide, containing examination questions, resource references, and other helpful information

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
Explorations	ix
Laboratory Work for Each Part of the Course	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
A Word to Future and Current Teachers	5	(2)
Reviewing Units, Mathematics, and Scientific Notation	7	(14)
Geometry Review	12	(2)
Review of Basic Trigonometry	14	(2)
Reviewing Graphs	16	(5)
Further Reading and Web Sites	21	(4)
Some Further Chapter Materials	25	(48)
Part One	25	(34)
Part Two	59	(14)
Laboratory Explorations	73
Suggested Mini-Laboratory Explorations	75
Suggested Major Laboratory Explorations	89