Tutorials In Introductory Physics and Homework Package

By Lillian C. McDermott, Peter S. Shaffer, Peter Shaffer

Book Overview

This landmark book presents a series of physics tutorials designed by a leading physics education research group. Emphasizing the development of concepts and scientific reasoning skills, the tutorials focus on common conceptual and reasoning difficulties. KEY TOPICS: The tutorials cover a range of topics in Mechanics, E & M, and Waves & Optics. MARKET: This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130662453
• ISBN13: 9780130662453
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

extremely helpful learning tool

I am a student at the University of Washington, where the tutorial books were developed. Most students naturally have common-sense misconceptions or difficulties in certain areas of introductory physics and the tutorial exercises are specifically designed to focus on these problem areas. They often guide the student by starting out with a simple physical situation and asking the student to predict what will happen, which exposes...

Excellent, even for review

I used this book as a junior-year physics major, while I coached (kinda like TA'd) for the introductory calculus-based mechanics course. Although I'd taken this course myself two years before, I found this book enormously helpful for review, and the students also seemed to learn very well from it, too. It doesn't give you or ask for the answers right away, but leads you through your own intuition to find the correct answer...

A Wonderful Learning Tool

These books are a GREAT tool for any physics teacher! It is true that they are very challenging, and sometimes not very pleasurable for the students as they are working through the tutorials, but the reward in the end IS worth it! It is very apparent that the physics education research team at UW spent many semesters putting together these sets of tutorials. I have seen my students retain earlier concepts much better after...