About the Author

<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=jpg::Moore::/sites/dl/free/0072291524/52312/Moo97152.jpg','popWin', 'width=250,height=220,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif">Moore (5.0K)</a>Moore Thomas A. Moore graduated from Carleton College (magna cum laude with Distinction in Physics) in 1976. He won a Danforth Fellowship that year that supported his graduate education at Yale University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1981. He taught at Carleton College and Luther College before taking his current position at Pomona College in 1987, where he won a Wig Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1990. He served as an active member of the steering committee for the national Introductory University Physics Project (IUPP) from 1987 through 1995. This textbook grew out of a model curriculum that he developed for that project in 1989, which was one of only four selected for further development and testing by IUPP. He has published a number of articles about astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, detection of gravitational waves, and new approaches to teaching physics, as well as a book on special relativity entitled “A Traveler's Guide to Spacetime” (McGraw-Hill, 1995). He has also served as a reviewer and an associate editor for American Journal of Physics. He currently lives in Claremont, California, with his wife Joyce and two college-aged daughters, Brittnay and Allison. When he is not teaching, doing research in relativistic astrophysics, or writing, he enjoys reading, hiking, scuba diving, teaching adult church-school classes on the Hebrew Bible, calling contradances, and playing traditional Irish fiddle music.