Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit Q - Particles Behaves Like Waves

by Thomas A. Moore

SIX IDEAS THAT SHAPED PHYSICS is the 21st century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed SIX IDEAS to teach students: --to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations --to solve realistic problems --to resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics --to organize the ideas of physics into an integrated hierarchy

Genres: Physics

320 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

About the author

There is more than one Thomas A. Moore in the Goodreads catalog. This entry is for Thomas ^ A. Moore, professor of physics.

Thomas A. Moore is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Pomona College, in Claremont, California, USA.

Moore is a theoretical astrophysicist who has done most of his published research on the generation and detection of gravitational waves. Currently, he is working to better understand what space-based gravitational wave detectors should expect to see and what they might tell us about the universe. He is also deeply interested in problems in physics education and has published several papers (as well as given a number of talks and workshops) on new approaches to teaching physics.

He served for seven years on the steering committee of the Introductory University Physics Project, and his work for that project led him to write a fairly radical introductory physics textbook titled Six Ideas That Shaped Physics (2003). He is also the author of two other textbooks, A General Relativity Workbook (2013) and A Traveler’s Guide to Spacetime (1996).

His scholarly interests are in gravitational waves, physics education, the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, solar energy, and the intersection of science and religion.

Education
B.A. Carleton College (1976)
M. Phil. Yale University (1978)
Ph. D. Yale University (1981)

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hated this series. I learned everything I needed to about this subject and others covered by the series using the MIT Opencourseware. Since my school used this book I had to invest a heavy amount of time learning the material from outside sources.

[piper · Rating 5 out of 5]

great introduction to many of the ideas of modern physics. i loved the little summaries at the beginnings of the chapters—because my professor (basically) did a chapter a week (kinda like mini units), they were very helpful when doing my problem sets (especially with the important equations). especially loved this book as an intro to quantum, it got through the especially non-intuitive parts especially well

[Parnian Sartip · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book... is a big joke. Moore has even at times said the incorrect thing in order to simplify the concepts. The other books in the series seem to be better.

[lina · Rating 5 out of 5]

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