Understanding Physics

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Springer Science & Business Media, 10.09.2002 - 851 Seiten
UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS is an innovative introductory course designed for students preparing to enter careers in fields outside of science or engineering, including students planning to teach, or already teaching, in K-12 classrooms. It is inspired by the famous Project Physics Course, which became known for its success in inspiring students with the excitement of physics by placing its concepts within a broader humanistic context.||UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS enables students to gain a full appreciation of physics both as a discipline and as a body of knowledge: a sense of what the concepts mean, where they came from, and why we think we know what we know. The course is among the first to accommodate recommendations of the "National Science Education Standards" from the National Academy of Sciences and the "Benchmarks for Science Literacy" from Project 2061 at the college level. Understanding Physics also incorporates the most recent advances in understanding how students learn physics and where they encounter difficulties, and it offers great flexibility to instructors to adapt the course to the needs of their students and to their own needs and interests.||The course components - textbook, student guide, instructor guide - all work together to provide students with an integrated experience in physics. |·The text provides a conceptual framework and connecting narrative for the course that promotes an active engagement with the material. |·Each chapter contains questions designed to help students confirm what they have learned as well as questions to encourage them to go beyond the reading, in individual study, laboratory work, and group discussion. |·The student guide provides both written and hands-on activities for enhancing understanding|·The suggested laboratory work includes in-depth explorations, student-designed inquiries, and text-related mini-explorations that may be used as hands-on activities or as demonstrations with student participation.

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Prologue to Part One
3
Motion Matters
6
CHAPTER PROBING THE ATOM
13
MOTION MATTERS
15
CHAPTER MOVING THE EARTH
57
Understanding Motion
117
B THE THREE LAWS IN ACTION
143
Newtons Unified Theory
171
Electricity and Magnetism
459
The Electric Age
505
Conservation
531
Electromagnetic Waves
549
Probing the Atom
585
The Quantum Model of the Atom
621
Quantum Mechanics
661
Solids Matter
693

Conserving Matter and Motion
211
The Dynamics of Heat
253
A Matter of Motion
293
Wave Motion
331
Einstein and Relativity Theory
405
Time Dilation
424
331
426
FIELDS AND ATOMS Prologue to Part Two
451
Semiconductors
707
Probing the Nucleus
723
The Nucleus and Its Applications
763
Illustration Credits
819
Index
829
505
832
451
837
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Born in Berlin, Germany, Gerald Holton received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1946. Shortly afterward, he launched into what has become a major part of his career---directing a well-known program that originally was developed to teach physical science to liberal arts majors at Harvard. This program, called Harvard Project Physics, became the model for an ambitious program to teach physics in a similar historical manner in colleges and high schools throughout the United States. Later, Holton used this model in a somewhat different manner, establishing a program for the public understanding of science that eventually grew into a journal, Science, Technology and Human Values. For many years, Holton was a coeditor of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also gained recognition as a biographer of Albert Einstein, and he has worked tirelessly to demonstrate that science requires as much creative imagination as do the arts and humanities.

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