Understanding Physics

This student guide an laboratory manual accompanies the "Understanding Physics" textbook.

From the reviews:

"If a book is required which develops the basic concepts of physics in a detailed but completely readable and always interesting way from first principles, then this could certainly be a candidate. It uses the rather outdated historical approach to each chapter's material, but far from obscuring the important physical results, the approach as used here has been so carefully constructed that one is led to an understanding of the concepts without really noticing that one has arrived!" (Prof. F. W. Bullock, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 44 (6), 2003)

"Understanding Physics is inspired by the famous Project Physics Course . The inquiry-based laboratory investigations include in-depth explorations, student-designed inquiries, and text-related mini-laboratory explorations that may be used as hands-on activities or as demonstrations with student participation." (Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Vol. 84 (1-3), 2003)

Autorentext
Gerald Holton ist Mallinckrodt Professor für Physik und Professor für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften an der Harvard University. Er ist daneben Mitherausgeber der Gesammelten Werke von Albert Einstein und hat schon mehrere Bücher veröffentlicht, so z. B. "Themata" aus der Reihe "Facetten der Physik".

Klappentext

Laboratory Manual to accompany Understanding Physics.

Zusammenfassung
This student guide an laboratory manual accompanies the "Understanding Physics" textbook.

Inhalt
A Word to Future and Current Teachers.- Reviewing Units, Mathematics, and Scientific Notation.- Further Reading and Web Sites.- Some Further Chapter Materials.- Laboratory Explorations.