Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit C - Conservation Laws Constrain Interactions 3rd Edition

The book was is great condition, used. It will work perfectly for my needs.

The Moore units (C and N) reverse the customary order of presenting beginning mechanics. As someone who has taught conventional large beginning mechanics classes many times, I think Moore's version makes more sense.Unit C is about conservation laws, which are truly simple and useful. They can be taught without using calculus, so students can focus on the core ideas. Plenty of problems even in conventional courses end up being solved just by applying conservation laws, so the approach leaves lots of room for exercises.Once the conservation laws are in hand, the standard differential approach (e.g. F=ma) makes more sense. Forces are the ways for things to trade momentum. Torques, angular momentum. Work, energy. This approach also sets the stage for later thermal physics courses better than the more conventional one.Moore has shown that a grown-up way of understanding mechanics can be more accessible than starting out with a blizzard of particular force laws.

I HATED all of Moore's books. They're too wordy and he just straight up tries too hard. Professors at my university like this book and try having us teach ourselves using this book as a guide. It sucks, and makes everything more complicated than it needs to be I feel like any other university physics text book would be better than this one. He also comes up with these stupid variable names for everything which further complicates things. I'm a math, Comp.Sci, Physics major and if there's an easier way to do something, I would be the one to find it. These books are NOT easy. If I could give 0/5 stars, I would.

It was a text book I was required to get some years ago, so I'm sure it did its job. As to why the instructor wanted us to get so many books... dunno, but it's kind of stupid in my opinion.

The series "Six ideas that shaped physics" is the best introductory physics course available. In my opinion, it blends in a very concise way the style of other great books such as the MIT and Berkeley Physics courses, but written in an original, modern, and more profound way. The series made me "rethink" physics, and actually learn things I did not using other books. The flow of the topics is very modern, and helps one think of the hierarchy of physics and the copcepts involved. The problem sets are a gem: well organized, spaning from basic skills to rich context where one can gain insight on how to apply the learnt material to very, and I say, very interesting situations. The problems and topics can be hard, but that is exactly what makes this series so unique. When I read through the chapters, I left I was really learning physics, not just how to solve problems, but the real meaning of the concepts, such as force, work, and potential energy. This is a book for the 21st century, and I hope it becomes the standard textbook everywhere. I highly recommend this series. Congratulations to the author.

This book does a good job of introducing the material and explaining the ideas but does the worst job ive ever seen in applying it in the problems in the back of the chapter. Gives you minimal examples, leaving you virtually alone to the problems at the end of the chapter. You have no idea if your doing them right and only gives you answers to a few of the problems. If your looking to self teach, this book is only good for definitions and a overview, not problem solving. I bought this for a physics class and I dont see the point of having a textbook that isnt gonna actually help me beyond defintions and overview.

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I very much enjoyed this extraordinary series. I am a professional physicist, so of course I do not by any means belong to the target audience of physics students. As I do not teach elementary physics, I cannot really judge whether it manages to convey its message in a classroom setting. But I have carefully read the more conceptually challenging part, and taken the time to do quite few of the exercises. I do believe this book gives the reader a sense of the reality of physics, something students often seem to lack: reading this book will leave you with a clear understanding of how you can use physics to grasp elementary everyday phenomena, and makes a convincing attempt to convince the reader that looking at the world through a physicist's eyes is, in fact, useful.