Physics & Astronomy

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Giancoli,  Physics: Principles with Applications Updated Edition (NASTA Edition), 6/E
Giancoli,  Physics: Principles with Applications with MasteringPhysics, 6/E

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Giancoli,  Physics: Principles with Applications with MasteringPhysics, 6/E

Conceptual Understanding and Problem-Solving

• Worked Examples have all been rewritten to include Approach and Note steps.  “Approach” steps help students understand the reasoning behind the method used to solve the problem and answer their questions of "how/where do I start?"  “Note” sections sometimes remarks on the solution itself, mentions an application, or gives an alternate approach to solving the problem. (p. 77, 83)
• Free-body diagrams are emphasized with 2 ½ pages reserved for the description, practice and implementation of this important skill.  (p. 84-86)
• Problem Solving Boxes are found throughout the book (see p.xiii for a list of them). Each box outlines a step-by-step approach to get students thinking about and involved in the problem at hand. (p. 85, 96)
• Step-by-Step examples: After most Problem Solving boxes, the next Example is done step-by-step following the steps of the preceding Problem Solving box to show students how this tool can be used. (p. 86, Ex. 4-11)
• Conceptual examples: Each is a brief Socratic question intended to stimulate student response before reading the response given. (p. 79, 80, 85, 89, 92)
• Estimating examples develop skills for making order-of-magnitude estimates, even when data is scarce, or when you might never have guessed any result was possible.  (p. 76, 110, 119)

Textbook as a Tool

• Page Layout and formatting was a key focus of this revision, even more than in the previous edition. Great effort was made to keep important derivations and arguments on facing pages so students do not have to flip pages to continue derivations or locate key figures referenced in the text.
• Vector arrows over bold face letters denoting a vector, in text and in art provide consistency with the way students write them in homework and professors write them on the board. (79, 80-83)
• Caution margin notes warns students of common misconceptions. (p. 75, 78, 81)
• Exercises within the chapter give students a chance to check their understanding before they proceed to other topics.  Answers are given at the end of each chapter. (p. 80, 93)

Applications

• Applications show students how useful physics is in their own lives and future professions: biology and medicine, as well as architecture, other fields, and everyday life. Applications are interesting in themselves, plus they answer the students' question, "Why must I study physics?" (p. 88, 94 - A complete list is found on pages xii and xiii)

 Lecture Activities

• Clicker Questions (located on the Instructor's Resource CD) are mulitiple-choice questions that challenge students to immediately apply certain material and develop critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills.  Questions are grouped  and usually ordered by level of difficulty or other pedagogical device.  This allows students to "climb the mountain slowly" when a difficult concept is being practiced. 
• Tutorials in Introductory Physics present a series of physics tutorials designed by a leading physics education research group.  Emphasizing the development of concepts and scientific reasoning skills, the tutorials focus on the specific conceptual and reasoning difficulties that students tend to encounter.

Assessment

• OneKey is all instructors and students need to succeed. Available in WebCT, Blackboard, and CourseCompass, each option gives instructors online assessment tools that allow them to create and administer homework, tests, and quizzes online for automatic grading and recording, without requiring development of their own content. For students, OneKey provides anywhere/anytime access to online course materials. Conveniently organized by textbook chapter, these compiled resources help students reinforce and apply what they've learned in class. All of OneKey's resources, including text-specific multiple-choice and true/false questions, an interactive eBook, test item file, and all of the Instructor Resource Center assets, are located in one place for maximum convenience, simplicity and success.

• PHGradeAssist (www.prenhall.com/phga) is Prentice Hall’s online homework system.  It includes content associated with Just-in-Time teaching materials, Physlet Problems, conceptual and quantitative questions, and hundreds of end-of-chapter Problems from the textbook.  Many of the end-of-chapter Problems have an algorithmically generated variant.  Instructors can edit questions and add new ones.

• WebAssign (www.webassign.net) is a nationally hosted online homework system that allows instructors to create, post, collect, grade and record assignments from a ready-to-use database of Problems and Questions from this text.

• CAPA and LON-CAPA is a locally hosted online homework system that allows instructors to create, post, collect, grade and record assignments from a ready-to-use database of Problems and Questions from this text. 

• Physlet Physics is a text/CD-ROM package that provides the first class-tested collection of ready-to-run Physlet-based material that is easy to assign and easy to use.  The book contains over 800 new Physlet-based activities that span all of introductory physics.

• Ranking Task Exercises in Physics are an innovative type of conceptual exercise that asks students to make comparative judgments about variations on a particular physicals situation.  It includes 200 exercises covering classical physics and optics.

• Interactive Physics Workbook (including CD) is designed to help students visualize and work with specific physics problems by means of simulations created from Interactive Physics files.  The workbook provides instructions, a physics review, hints and questions. 

 ei - Prentice Hall Series in Educational Innovation in Physics

The Prentice Hall Series in Educational Innovation (EI) is a set of books dedicated to disseminating the latest proven teaching techniques from physics education research.  The following EI texts are for students and contain exercises for in-class activities and homework assignments.  To learn more about these titles, visit www.prenhall.com/tiponline 

• Physlet Physics is a text/CD-ROM package that provides the first class-tested collection of ready-to-run Physlet-based material that is easy to assign and easy to use.  The book contains over 800 new Physlet-based activities that span all of introductory physics.
• Tutorials in Introductory Physics present a series of physics tutorials designed by a leading physics education research group.  Emphasizing the development of concepts and scientific reasoning skills, the tutorials focus on the specific conceptual and reasoning difficulties that students tend to encounter.

• Ranking Task Exercises in Physics are an innovative type of conceptual exercise that asks students to make comparative judgments about variations on a particular physicals situation.  It includes 200 exercises covering classical physics and optics.

• Physlets:  Teaching Physics with Interactive Curricular Material (for instructors)

• Peer Instruction:  A User’s Manual

• Just-in-Time Teaching:  Blending Active Learning with Web Technology

   

• “Approach” Step - added to each worked Example
  • Helps students understand the reasoning behind the method used to solve the problem and answer their questions of "how/where do I start?"   (p. 77, 83)

• “Note” Section - Added to most Examples after the Solution
  • Sometimes remarks on the solution itself, mentions an application, or gives an alternate approach to solving the problem. (p. 77, 83)

• Exercises within the text
  • Gives students a chance to check their understanding through practice before they proceed to other topics.  Answers are given at the end of each chapter. (p. 80, 93)

• Caution margin notes
  • Warns students of common misconceptions. (p. 75, 78, 81)

• Many new applications
  • Some new applications are: digital cameras, charge coupled devices (CCD); Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD); photocopy machines; inkjet and laser printers; world's tallest peaks (unit conversion); airport metal detectors; underwater vision; SEER rating; jump starting a car; RC circuits in pacemakers, turn signals; wipers; and digital voltmeters. A complete list of the applications follows the Table of Contents on pages xii and xiii. (p. 88, 94 - A complete list is found on pages xii and xiii)

• Vector arrows over bold face letters denoting a vector, in text and in art
  • Provide consistency with the way students write them in homework and professors write them on the board. (p. 79, 80-83)

• Step-by-Step Worked-out Examples
  • Immediately following many Problem Solving boxes (which summarizes how to approach problem-solving situations). The very next worked Example follows the steps of the Broblem Solving box explicitly. (p. 86, Ex. 4-11)

• Additional Subsections
  • Break up the material into smaller bites, making it easier to understand.

• Additional Examples
  • Some topics require many different worked Examples to clarify an issue. A subhead "Additional Example(s)" provides a variety of Examples for future reference without overwhelming the student. (p. 83, 88, 92)

(NOTE: Also available in Split Volumes: Volume I contains Chs. 1-15; and Volume II contains Chs. 16-33.)

 1. Introduction.


 2. Describing Motion: Kinematics in One Dimension.


 3. Kinematics in Two Dimensions; Vectors.


 4. Motion and Force: Dynamics.


 5. Circular Motion; Gravitation.


 6. Work and Energy.


 7. Linear Momentum.


 8. Rotational Motion.


 9. Bodies in Equilibrium; Elasticity and Fracture.


10. Fluids.


11. Vibrations and Waves.


12. Sound.


13. Temperature and Kinetic Theory.


14. Heat.


15. The Laws of Thermodynamics.


16. Electric Charge and Electric Field.


17. Electric Potential and Electric Energy; Capacitance.


18. Electric Currents.


19. DC Circuits.


20. Magnetism.


21. Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law; AC Circuits.


22. Electromagnetic Waves.


23. Light: Geometric Optics.


24. The Wave Nature of Light.


25. Optical Instruments.


26. Special Theory of Relativity.


27. Early Quantum Theory and Models of the Atom.


28. Quantum Mechanics of Atoms.


29. Molecules and Solids.


30. Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity.


31. Nuclear Energy; Effects and Uses of Radiation.


32. Elementary Particles.


33. Astrophysics and Cosmology.


Appendix A: Mathematical Review.


Appendix B: Dimensional Analysis.


Appendix C: Rotating Frames of Reference; Inertial Forces; Coriolis Effect.


Appendix D: Gauss's Law.


Appendix E:Galilean and Lorentz Transformations.


Appendix F: Selected Isotopes.


Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems.


Index.

Algebra-Based Physics  (Physics & Astronomy)

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Interactive Teaching DVD: Promoting Better Learning Using Peer Instruction and Just-In-Time Teaching
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