Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit R - Laws of Physics are Frame-Independent

3 ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-760095-2
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 275 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: WCB Physics

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics is the 21st Century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed this textbook to teach students the following: (1) To apply basic physical principles to realistic situations (2) To solve realistic problems (3) To resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics (4) To organize the ideas of physics into an integrated hierarchy.McGraw-Hill's Connect, is also available as an optional, add on item. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, how they need it, so that class time is more effective. Connect allows the professor to assign homework, quizzes, and tests easily and automatically grades and records the scores of the student's work. Problems are randomized to prevent sharing of answers an may also have a "multi-step solution" which helps move the students' learning along if they experience difficulty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

R1) The Principle of RelativityR2) Coordinate TimeR3) The Spacetime IntervalR4) Proper TimeR5) Coordinate TransformationsR6) Lorentz ContractionR7) The Cosmic Speed LimitR8) Four-MomentumR9) Conservation of Four-MomentumAppendix RA - Converting Equations to SI UnitsAppendix RB - The Relativistic Doppler Effect

Über Autor(innen)

Moore, Thomas
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.