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Six Ideas that Shaped Physics: Unit N - Laws of Physics are Universal

ISBN10: 1264876823 | ISBN13: 9781264876822

Six Ideas that Shaped Physics: Unit N - Laws of Physics are Universal

Six Ideas that Shaped Physics: Unit N - Laws of Physics are Universal, 4th Edition

ISBN10: 1264876823
ISBN13: 9781264876822
By Thomas Moore
© 2023

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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 N
N1 Newton's Law
N2 Forces from Motion
N3 Motion from Forces
N4 Statics
N5 Linearly Constrained Motion
N6 Coupled Objects
N7 Circularly Constrained Motion
N8 Noninertial Frames
N9 Projectile Motion
N10 Oscillatory Motion
N11 Kepler's Laws
N12 Orbits and Conservation Laws

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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