Five easy lessons : strategies for successful physics teaching / Randall D. Knight.

Incluye bibliografía (p. 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.