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Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit C - Conservation Laws Constrain

ISBN10: 1260721752 | ISBN13: 9781260721751

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit C - Conservation Laws Constrain

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit C - Conservation Laws Constrain

ISBN10: 1260721752
ISBN13: 9781260721751
By Thomas Moore
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Six Ideas that Shaped Physics is comprised of six units, providing a unique approach to a two- or three-semester calculus-based introductory physics course. The text is designed to teach students to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations, and to resolve contradictions between their preconceived notions and the laws of physics. Through integrated practice, students learn to solve realistic problems, and organize the ideas of physics into an integrated hierarchy. 

The six units are:
Unit C: Conservation laws constrain interactions 
Unit N: The laws of physics are universal (Newtonian mechanics) 
Unit R: The laws of physics are frame-independent (Relativity) 
Unit E: Electricity and magnetism are unified 
Unit Q: Matter behaves like waves (Quantum physics) 
Unit T: Some processes are irreversible (Thermal physics)

Unit C
C1 The Art of Model Building
C2 Particles and Interactions
C3 Vectors
C4 Systems and Frames
C5 Conservation of Momentum
C6 Conservation of Angular Momentum
C7 More About Angular Momentum
C8 Conservation of Energy
C9 Potential Energy Graphs
C10 Work
C11 Rotational Energy
C12 Thermal Energy
C13 Other Forms of Internal Energy
C14 Collisions

About the Author

Thomas Moore

Thomas A. Moore graduated from Carleton College (magna cum laude with Distinction in Physics) in 1976. He won a Danforth Fellowship that year that supported his graduate education at Yale University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1981. He 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 steering committee for the national Introductory University Physics Project (IUPP) from 1987 through 1995. This textbook grew out of a model curriculum that he developed for that project in 1989, which was one of only four selected for further development and testing by IUPP.
He has published a number of articles about astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, detection of gravitational waves, and new approaches to teaching physics, as well as a book on general relativity entitled A General Relativity Workbook (University Science Books, 2013). He has also served as a reviewer and as an associate editor for American Journal of Physics. He currently lives in Claremont, California, with his wife Joyce, a retired pastor. When he is not teaching, doing research, or writing, he enjoys reading, hiking, calling contradances, and playing Irish traditional music.

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