Full Description
∗ A conceptual flow like those found in research-based active learning materials. Specifically, LEARNING PHYSICS begins each topic by considering concrete situations chosen to address common misconceptions, and to take advantage of students' productive intuitions and everyday experiences to build up to the key, abstract principles.
∗ Clear, incrementally-developed connections between those principles and quantitative problems solving. LEARNING PHYSICS emphasizes how the approaches it develops flow directly from the underlying concepts.
∗ Explicit discussion about how to learn particular concepts, and physics in general.
∗ Extensive accompanying materials. Students need to work through many problems to practice, so each chapter has an electronic "Extension" that contains problems (ranging from medium difficulty to challenging) with completely worked out solutions in hypertext format. Also available for instructors are in-class group discussion/problem sheets, "tutorials", and conceptual labs. All incorporate active learning.
Contents
PART I: MECHANICS
Introduction
1. One Dimensional Motion: Basic Concepts and Graphs
2. One Dimensional Motion: Equations and Problem Solving
3. Introduction to Dynamics: Forces in One Dimension
4. Newton's third law and interacting objects
5. Motion in two dimensions
6. Newton's Laws in Two Dimensions;
Kinetic and Static Friction
7. Circular motion
8. Conservation of energy
9. Linear Momentum I: Conservation of Momentum in One Dimension
10. Linear Momentum II: Conservation of Momentum in Two Dimensions, Impulse, and Center of Mass
11. Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
12. Rotational Energy and Angular Momentum
13. Oscillations
14. Gravitation
15. Waves
(15a. Supplemental chapter on fluids available)
PART II: THERMODYNAMICS
16. Ideal gases; kinetic theory
17. The First Law of Thermodynamics;
Thermodynamic Cycles and Efficiency
18. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
PART III: ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM
20. Electric fields
21. Gauss' Law
22. Electric potential
23. Capacitors
24. Current, resistance, and DC circuits
25. Magnetism
26. Creating magnetic fields
27. Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law
28. Inductance & motors
29. Time dependent DC circuits
30. AC Circuits
31. Maxwell's equations and EM Waves
