Five easy lessons : strategies for successful physics teaching / Randall D. Knight.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-329).

I. Teaching introductory physics --1. Introduction --Desired student outcomes --Five lessons for teachers --Toward an active-learning environment --Does it work? --2. Teaching introductory physics --Things to consider --Laboratories and recitations --3. Physics education research --What is physics education research? --Summary of findings from physics education research --Examples of students' alternative conceptions --Knowledge structures and problem solving --Implications for instruction--the five lessons --4. An active-learning classroom --So what's wrong with lectures? --Active learning --A dozen things you can do to change physics education --Just the FAQs --II. Topics in introductory physics --5. Vectors and mathematics --6. Motion and kinematics --7. Force and Newton's laws --8. Impulse and momentum --9. Energy --10. Oscillations --11. Waves --12. Thermal physics --13. Thermodynamics --14. Electrostatics --15. Electric fields --16. The electric potential --17. Current and conductivity --18. DC circuits --19. Magnetic fields --20. Electromagnetic induction --21. Geometrical optics --22. Physical optics --23. Quantum physics.

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