Tutorials in Physics

by Lillian C. McDermott, Peter S. Shaffer

This landmark book presents a series of physics tutorials designed by a leading physics education researcher. Emphasizing the development of concepts and scientific reasoning skill, the tutorials focus on the specific conceptual and reasoning difficulties that students tend to find the most difficult. This is a Preliminary Version offering tutorials for a range of topics is Mechanics, E & M, Waves & Optics. The complete tutorials will be published in 1999.

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 1997

About the author

Lillian Christie McDermott was an American physicist. In the early 1970s, McDermott established the Physics Education Group (PEG) at the University of Washington to "improve the teaching and learning of physics from kindergarten all the way through graduate school." She was recognized for her many contributions to the field of physics education research with an election to the American Physical Society in 1990.