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Book SynopsisAbout our authors
Eugenia Etkina is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She holds a PhD in physics education from Moscow State Pedagogical University and has more than 35 years experience teaching physics. She is a recipient of 2014 Millikan Medal awarded to educators who made significant contributions to teaching physics, and a fellow of the AAPT. Professor Etkina designed and now coordinates one of the largest programs in physics teacher preparation in the United States, conducts professional development for high school and university physics instructors, and participates in reforms to the undergraduate physics courses. In 1993 she developed a system in which students learn physics using processes that mirror scientific practice. That system, called Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) serves as the basis for this textbook. Since 2000, Professors Etkina has conducted over 100 workshops fo
Table of Contents
- Introducing physics
- Kinematics: Motion in one dimension
- Newtonian mechanics
- Applying Newton’s laws
- Circular motion
- Impulse and linear momentum
- Work and energy
- Extended bodies at rest
- Rotational motion
- Vibrational motion
- Waves
- Gases
- Static fluids
- Fluids in motion
- First law of thermodynamics
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Electric charge, force, and energy
- The electric field
- DC circuits
- Magnetism
- Electromagnetic induction
- Reflection and refraction
- Mirrors and lenses
- Wave optics
- Electromagnetic waves
- Special relativity
- Quantum optics
- Atomic physics
- Nuclear physics
- Particle physics
