Physics : the first science / Peter Lindenfeld and Suzanne White Brahmia.
Today's physics textbooks have become encyclopedic, offering students dry discussions, rote formulas, and exercises with little relation to the real world. Physics: The First Science takes a different approach by offering uniquely accessible, student-friendly explanations, historical and philos...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | Today's physics textbooks have become encyclopedic, offering students dry discussions, rote formulas, and exercises with little relation to the real world. Physics: The First Science takes a different approach by offering uniquely accessible, student-friendly explanations, historical and philosophical perspectives and mathematics in easy-to-comprehend dialogue. It emphasizes the unity of physics and its place as the basis for all science. Examples and worked solutions are scattered throughout the narrative to help increase understanding. Students are tested and challenged at the end of each chapter with questions ranging from a guided-review designed to mirror the examples, to problems, reasoning skill building exercises that encourage students to analyze unfamiliar situations, and interactive simulations developed at the University of Colorado. With their experience instructing both students and teachers of physics for decades, Peter Lindenfeld and Suzanne White Brahmia have developed an algebra-based physics book with features to help readers see the physics in their lives. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 366 pages : illustrations) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813550890 9780813550893 |