Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit T - Some Processes are Irreversible - Softcover

Moore,Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072397152 ISBN 13: 9780072397154

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2002

Synopsis

SIX IDEAS THAT SHAPED PHYSICS is the 21st century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed SIX IDEAS to teach students: --to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations --to solve realistic problems --to resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics --to organize the ideas of physics into an integrated hierarchy

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About the Author

Thomas A. Moore is a professor in the physics department of Pomona College. He graduated from Carleton College in 1976, and earned an M. Phil. in 1978 and a Ph. D. in 1981 from Yale University. He then 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 national Introductory University Physics Project (IUPP), and has published a number of articles about astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, detection of gravitational waves, and new approaches to teaching physics. His previous books include A Traveler's Guide to Spacetime (McGraw-Hill, 1995) on special relativity, and a six-volume introductory calculus-based physics text called Six Ideas That Shaped Physics (McGraw-Hill, 2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072397152
• ISBN 13: 9780072397154
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208