TY - BOOK AU - Knight,Randall Dewey TI - Five easy lessons: strategies for successful physics teaching SN - 0805387021 AV - QC30 .K55 2004 PY - 2004///] CY - San Francisco, Calif. PB - Addison Wesley KW - Physics KW - Study and teaching N1 - 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 ER -