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Physics for Non-Scientists > s.a. physics teaching
[including physics in everyday life]; practical aspects.
@ Articles: Baierlein PT(95)mar;
Dudley & Bold AJP(96)apr [top-down];
Hoffman & Jouny AJP(96)oct [music];
Duncan AJP(97)may;
Follette et al Numer(15)-a1507
[Quantitative Reasoning for College Science assessment tool].
@ Texts, conceptual: Holton & Brush 01;
Cassidy et al 02;
Tavel 02;
Swartz 03;
Hobson 09 [5th ed];
Sadoff 09;
Hassani 10.
@ Texts, special approaches:
Rossing & Chiaverina 99 [for visual arts];
Logan 10 [literature, history, philosophy];
Gilbert & Haeberli 11 [art].
General Physics > s.a. computational physics.
* Topics: Should
include elements of chaos, chance, error analysis.
@ General references: Kriss AJP(93)jan [structure of physics];
Rigden et al PT(93)apr;
Di Stefano AJP(96)jan,
AJP(96)jan [IUPP];
Gautreau & Novemsky AJP(97)may [OCS approach];
Allie & Buffler AJP(98)jul [tools and procedures];
Folan et al 03 [technology applications];
Orban & Teeling-Smith TPT(20)apr [computational thinking];
Winfrey PT(20)apr.
@ Algebra-based: Redish & Hammer AJP(09)jul [reinventing the course];
Lindenfeld & Brahmia 11 [r PT(12)jul recommended];
Henley & Dash 12
[r PT(12)dec
not recommended, but see comments]; Meredith & Redish PT(13)jul [reinventing the course];
Hilborn AJP(14)may [physics and the revised MCAT];
Mochrie AJP(16)jul,
Smith et al AJP(18)sep [for the life sciences].
@ Calculus-based: Laws PT(91)dec,
AJP(97)jan [without lectures];
Amato PT(96)dec [re textbooks];
Hoellwarth & Moelter AJP(11)may [studio format];
McGinness & Savage AJP(16)sep [stationary action formulation of physics].
@ FCI: Hestenes et al TPT(92)mar;
Caballero et al AJP(12)jul [assessing approaches];
Morris et al AJP(12)sep [item response curves analysis].
@ Problems: Thompson 87;
Gnädig et al 16.
@ Special emphasis texts:
Garcia et al 98 [computer science];
Benedek & Villars 00,
00,
00
[medical-biological, r PT(01)jul];
Folan et al 03 [applications];
Kane 09 [in medicine];
Holbrow et al 10
[modern, e1 r PT(01)may Roelofs];
Crouch & Heller AJP(14)may [for life sciences students].
@ Texts, calculus-based: Halliday et al 94;
Fishbane et al 96; Chabay &
Sherwood 02
[conceptual, r AJP(06)apr];
Wolfson 07 [concise, conceptual];
Agmon & Gluck 09.
@ Related topics: Chabay & Sherwood AJP(99)dec [integrating matter and thermodynamics];
Leff AJP(02)may
[a = v2/r];
Shaffer & McDermott AJP(05)oct [v and a as vectors];
Brookes & Etkina PRST(09) [force];
Kortemeyer & Westfall AJP(09)oct [history of physics];
Mashood & Singh EJP(12) [rotational kinematics, misconceptions];
> s.a. symmetry.
> Online resources: see
Decio Cocolicchio's site.
More topics:
see part I [mechanics including energy and gravity, fluids, waves, thermal physics];
part II [electromagnetism, optics, modern physics, cosmology];
physics [general references].
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