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Understanding Physics (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) by David Cassidy, Gerald Holton, James Rutherford (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Understanding Physics (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) (Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics) about?

UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS is an innovative introductory course designed for students preparing to enter careers in fields outside of science or engineering, including students planning to teach, or already teaching, in K-12 classrooms. It is inspired by the famous Project Physics Course, which became known for its success in inspiring students with the excitement of physics by placing its concepts within a broader humanistic context.||UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS enables students to gain a full appreciation of physics both as a discipline and as a body of knowledge: a sense of what the concepts mean, where they came from, and why we think we know what we know. The course is among the first to accommodate recommendations of the "National Science Education Standards" from the National Academy of Sciences and the "Benchmarks for Science Literacy" from Project 2061 at the college level. Understanding Physics also incorporates the most recent advances in understanding how students learn physics and where they encounter difficulties, and it offers great flexibility to instructors to adapt the course to the needs of their students and to their own needs and interests.||The course components - textbo

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Author
David Cassidy, Gerald Holton, James Rutherford (auth.)
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9781280188060
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Business, Astronomy

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