Explorations in Physics
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More About This Title Explorations in Physics
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Helps students to:
* Increase their scientific literacy and improve their critical thinking abilities.
* acquire mastery of a diverse subset of scientific concepts.
* develop positive attitudes about science.
* become comfortable reading graphs and interpreting their meaning.
* learn to use computers and other modern technologies with skill and confidence.
* Increase their scientific literacy and improve their critical thinking abilities.
* acquire mastery of a diverse subset of scientific concepts.
* develop positive attitudes about science.
* become comfortable reading graphs and interpreting their meaning.
* learn to use computers and other modern technologies with skill and confidence.
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Module 1: Motion, Forces, and Scientific Theories
1.1 The Measurement Process
1.2 Analyzing Motions
1.3 Force and Motion
1.4 Using Newton's Laws to Investigate the Real World
1.5 Project Ideas
Module 2: Pressure, Wind, and Weather
2.1 Forces from Gases
2.2 Measuring Pressure
2.3 Wind
2.4 Pressure and Wind Components of Simple Weather Phenomena
2.5 Project Ideas
Module 3: Heat, Temperature, and Cloud Formation
3.1 Experimenting and Hypothesizing
3.2 The Distinction between Heat and Temperature
3.3 Evaporation, Condensation, and Humidity
3.4 Cloud Formation
3.5 Project Ideas
Module 4: Light, Sight, and Rainbows
4.1 How is Information About the Outside World Transmitted to Our Eyes?
4.2 From Light to Sight
4.3 Color: How Can We See It?
4.4 The Real World -
Rainbows, Blue Skies, and Sunsets
4.5 Project Ideas
1.1 The Measurement Process
1.2 Analyzing Motions
1.3 Force and Motion
1.4 Using Newton's Laws to Investigate the Real World
1.5 Project Ideas
Module 2: Pressure, Wind, and Weather
2.1 Forces from Gases
2.2 Measuring Pressure
2.3 Wind
2.4 Pressure and Wind Components of Simple Weather Phenomena
2.5 Project Ideas
Module 3: Heat, Temperature, and Cloud Formation
3.1 Experimenting and Hypothesizing
3.2 The Distinction between Heat and Temperature
3.3 Evaporation, Condensation, and Humidity
3.4 Cloud Formation
3.5 Project Ideas
Module 4: Light, Sight, and Rainbows
4.1 How is Information About the Outside World Transmitted to Our Eyes?
4.2 From Light to Sight
4.3 Color: How Can We See It?
4.4 The Real World -
Rainbows, Blue Skies, and Sunsets
4.5 Project Ideas
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"...a useful, well researched and interesting book...an excellent source of inventive and fascinating teaching ideas..." (Physical Sciences Educational Reviews, Nov 2003)
