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Editorials from The Physics Teacher

Clifford Swartz

340 pages, parution le 23/03/2006

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Résumé

Cliff Swartz is a passionate advocate for better physics teaching, based on a curriculum that is quantitative and includes experiments "with a purpose." Here, in a collection of editorials written for The Physics Teacher magazine-along with a few new ones-he cajoles, chides, preaches, and provides a good swift kick in the intellectual pants for those who are working to share physics with the next generation.

Gleaned from a lifetime in the lab and in the classroom, Swartz's book is chock-full of wisdom for neophytes as well as seasoned veterans. Favorite editorials such as "Practically Perfect in Every Way" and "Justifying Atoms" provide the reader with an insider's view of the state of physics teaching over the three decades that Swartz edited The Physics Teacher . His advice and opinions-often thought-provoking or controversial-should not go unheeded.

L'auteur - Clifford Swartz

Clifford Swartz is a professor emeritus of physics at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the former editor of The Physics Teacher and has written numerous physics texts for students from kindergarten to graduate level. He was the recipient in 1987 of the Oersted Medal, the most prestigious award of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is the author of Back-of-the-Envelope Physics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).

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Celebration
Cheer & gloom
Fatherly advice
Good chidings
Tutorials

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Johns Hopkins
Auteur(s)	Clifford Swartz
Parution	23/03/2006
Nb. de pages	340
Format	14 x 21,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	430g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780801883071