I reviewed the chapter on torque. It's a carefully written textbook, and if you're familiar with Mazur's work you know he's a conscientious physics educator. He's developed "Peer Instruction" and modifiied it to include JiTT, which is all part of the flipped classroom umbrella, as far as I'm concerned.
His basic philosophy is that students are required to complete reading assignments from the book before they attend the class session that addresses the same topic.
Herman Trivilino
Physics Professor
Faculty Professional Development Leader
College of the Mainland
www.com.edu <http://www.com.edu/>
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Subject: [Phys-L] Mazur's Textbook
Dear All,
Eric Mazur has come out with an introductory physics text, "Principles and
Practice of Physics" and I was curious if anyone took a look at it and had
any impressions of it.
In particular, if one wanted to do an introductory physics class at the
university level with a flipped format (though I have to tell you the class
is about 500 students in size and held in a theatre as there are no class
rooms large enough at NYU) would a choice of textbook such as this have a
potential impact?