SEC: books to support the physics curriculum

[Kelley Wilson <kwilson@UCF.K12.PA.US>]

I am trying to work with my faculty to add more reading across the
curriculum. My physics teacher is interested and I need some help coming
up with titles. He is interested in books that will help the students
appreciate the importance of physics. So far we have thought of _In Search
of Schrodinger's Cat_, and Dava Sobel's _Longitude_ and _Galileo's
Daughter_. We're looking for about 10 more titles (preferably non-fiction,
but I may be able to talk him into a couple of fiction choices) that would
be readable by juniors and seniors and would not so much explain the
science as mirror it, explain the contributor's reasoning, or show how
that development has influenced today's reasoning. Specific topics the
books could cover include Newton's examination of planetary motion,
Kepler's observation of the planets, and Descartes' study of momentum. I
would really appreciate your help on this as I think we need to get a lot
more reading into our curriculum.


Thanks,
Kelley


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Kelley S. Wilson                               kwilson@ucf.k12.pa.us
Librarian
Unionville High School
Kennett Square, PA

"The multitude of books is making us ignorant." -- Voltaire
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