Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit T - Some Processes are Irreversible by Thomas Moore
Intends to teach students the following: to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations; to solve realistic problems; to resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics; and, to organize the ideas of physics into an integrated hierarchy.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780077600969 |
| ISBN 10 | 0077600967 |
| Title | Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit T - Some Processes are Irreversible |
| Author | Thomas Moore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Year published | 2016-02-16 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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