The Open Agenda: Ideas a beginning physics teacher should not take for granted
by John Daicopoulos
Publisher: RenegadeScience.com 2009
ISBN-13: 9780646525839
Number of pages: 114
Description:
A short book on those fundamental day-to-day nuances and habits every physics teacher needs to do in order to teach the physics content. Based on almost twenty years of teaching high school and first-year university physics, it focuses on many of the items and ideas student-teachers need to know before entering the classroom.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)
Similar books
Modelling Rationality... and Beyond the Physicsby Gh. C. Dinulescu-Campina - American Research Press
The author is convinced that the Platonic theory of reminiscence is not a mere speculation, and the meaning of the spirit of science is the expression of a natural phenomenon which in the sense of the MESER concept is called revelation.
(10794 views)
Order-of-Magnitude Physicsby P. Goldreich, S. Mahajan, S. Phinney - University of Cambridge
This book teaches the art of approximation: dimensional analysis, guessing, and lying. To illustrate these techniques, we study the physics of everyday phenomena. The audience for the book includes graduates and upper-level undergraduates in physics.
(9041 views)
GRE Physics Test Practice Book- Educational Testing Service
The test consists of approximately 100 five-choice questions, based on diagrams, experimental data, and descriptions of physical situations. Questions can be answered on the basis of a mastery of the first three years of undergraduate physics.
(10601 views)
The New Physics and Its Evolutionby Lucien Poincare - D. Appleton and Company
This book, while avoiding purely technical details, tries to make known the general results at which physicists have lately arrived, and indicates the direction and import which should be ascribed to those speculations on the constitution of matter.
(12107 views)