Six Ideas that Shaped Physics is the 21st century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed Six Ideas to teach students to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations, to solve realistic problems, to resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics, to organize the ideas of physics into an integrated hierarchy. Salient Features: This includes a new general problem-solving framework that applies across units, new tools for solving specific kinds of problems and more general instruction in problem-solving in the text. A new approach to emphasizing important formulas.