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Articles & Presentations
- "Tactics for Change"
- by Robert L. Halfman, M. L. A. McVicar, W. T. Martin, Edwin F. Taylor and Jerrold R. Zacharias, Occasional Paper No. 11 of The Education Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972. A light-hearted, avuncular look at difficulties of academic change and tactics for change compiled by educational innovators of the 1960s and 1970s, long before Physics Education Research became a discipline of its own.
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pdf version (~117K, requires free Acrobat Reader software) - "Anatomy of Collaboration"
- An account of the
first collaboration, in the 1960s, of EFT and John Archibald
Wheeler, on their special relativity textbook Space Time
Physics. From the book Magic Without Magic: John Archibald
Wheeler, edited by John R. Klauder, W.H. Freeman and Company,
1972
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pdf version (~51K, requires free Acrobat Reader software)
Special Relativity
Textbook
Spacetime Physics, Second Edition
Full text available for download
Citation: Taylor, Edwin F., and John Archibald Wheeler. Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity. 2nd ed. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1992.
General Relativity
Textbook
Exploring Black Holes, Second Edition
The first edition of Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity, by Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler, is now out of print. An evolving SECOND EDITION is available for free download.
Quantum Mechanics
Articles & Presentations
- "Teaching Feynman's Sum Over Paths Quantum Theory,"
- Edwin F. Taylor,
Stamatis Vokos, John M. O'Meara, and Nora S. Thornber, Computers
in Physics 12, 190-199 (Mar/Apr 1998)
abstract
pdf version (~218K, requires free Acrobat Reader software) - "Rescuing Quantum Mechanics from Atomic Physics"
- Edwin
F. Taylor
transparencies for a talk given in June 2002
(~2.1 MB, pdf format, requires free Acrobat Reader software)