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Five easy lessons : strategies for successful physics teaching
- Author
- Knight, Randall Dewey.
- Title
- Five easy lessons : strategies for successful physics teaching / Randall D. Knight.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- San Francisco, Calif. : Addison Wesley, c2004.
- Description
- viii, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-329).
- Contents
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- I. Teaching introductory physics
- 1. Introduction
- Desired student outcomes
- Five lessons for teachers
- Toward an active-learning environment
- Does it work?
- 2. Teaching introductory physics
- Things to consider
- Laboratories and recitations
- 3. Physics education research
- What is physics education research?
- Summary of findings from physics education research
- Examples of students' alternative conceptions
- Knowledge structures and problem solving
- Implications for instruction
- the five lessons
- 4. An active-learning classroom
- So what's wrong with lectures?
- Active learning
- A dozen things you can do to change physics education
- Just the FAQs
- II. Topics in introductory physics
- 5. Vectors and mathematics
- 6. Motion and kinematics
- 7. Force and Newton's laws
- 8. Impulse and momentum
- 9. Energy
- 10. Oscillations
- 11. Waves
- 12. Thermal physics
- 13. Thermodynamics
- 14. Electrostatics
- 15. Electric fields
- 16. The electric potential
- 17. Current and conductivity
- 18. DC circuits
- 19. Magnetic fields
- 20. Electromagnetic induction
- 21. Geometrical optics
- 22. Physical optics
- 23. Quantum physics.
- Subject headings
- Physics--Study and teaching.
- ISBN
- 0805387021 9780805387025