Physics
121-122 Readings and Links
Prof. E. F. Redish
Readings
The following text materials are available on our (password protected) Blackboard
website.
- Chapters from Understanding Physics, by
Cummings, Laws, Redish, and Cooney (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). Although
this text does include some calculus, it also contains motivation and conceptual
discussions that better match my approch in this class than other texts.
- For those of you who are
pre-med or pre-health care, the introductory chapter of Dr. Jerome Groopman's
book, How
Doctors Think, makes clear the value of some of
the methods of thinking we are trying to encourage in this class in the context
of health care.
Links
Here are some websites that might help make sense of some of the issues raised
in class. If you discover others that you find useful, let me know and I will
add them to the list.
- Videos
- Eureka --
A set of cartoon clips on basic physics available on YouTube.
- Khan
Academy -- Lectures on physics, but be careful: some of the discussion
is really sloppy.
- MIT
Physics Lectures with Walter Lewin -- one of the most popular MIT
lecturers. Lectures start with the conceptual material appropriate
for our class, but go on to more complex and mathematical terms.
(Thanks to Neil Basumalik,
Megan Young, and Alex Kinder for recommendations!)
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Last revision 18. March,
2011.