Six Ideas that Shaped Physics

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written by Thomas A. Moore
published by the McGraw-Hill Higher Education

This series of six books covers introductory physics at the undergraduate level from a modern point of view. The six ideas that form the structure of this approach are: Conservation Laws, Universal Laws of Physics - Newton, Reference Frame Independence, Unification of Electric and Magnetic Fields, Universal Laws of Physics - Quantum Mechanics, and Irreversibility. Many resources are available for students and teachers on this site including links to example course web sites and teaching notes. There are also several programs available for free that can be used with both this and other texts.

http://www.physics.pomona.edu/sixideas/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - General Electricity & Magnetism General Physics - Curriculum Quantum Physics - General Thermo & Stat Mech	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Curriculum = Interactive Simulation = Textbook

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Access Rights:: Limited free access; Cost for the text, many resources are free and open source
Restriction:: © 2003 McGraw-Hill and Thomas Moore
ISBN Number:: 0072564822
Keywords:: modern physics, Six major ideas in physics, physics textbook, teacher content preparation
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created October 26, 2006 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated:: October 29, 2006 by Cathy Ezrailson
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 11, 2006
Other Collections:: The PSRC

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