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College Physics: A Strategic Approach with MasteringPhysics™
Randall D. KnightCalifornia Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Brian JonesColorado State University
Stuart FieldColorado State University

ISBN-10: 0805390626
ISBN-13:  9780805390629

Publisher:  Addison-Wesley
Copyright:  2007
Format:  Cloth Package; 1104 pp
Published:  12/04/2006
Status: Instock


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Building on the results of an extensive NSF-funded educational research program and detailed input from an unprecedented 4,500 students and 250 instructors, Randy Knight and Addison-Wesley published Physics for Scientists and Engineers in 2003. Already the most widely adopted new physics text published in more than 30years, this book has attracted widespread critical acclaim with instructors and is preferred by 85% of their students over other available texts. In College Physics: A Strategic Approach, Randy Knight is joined by Brian Jones and Stuart Field to carefully apply the best solutions from educational research to the algebra-based introductory physics course, and the particular needs of those students.

 

Built from the ground up on a wealth of research into how students learn physics and how they can be taught more effectively, College Physics leads students to more proficient and long-lasting problem-solving skills, a deeper and better-connected understanding of the concepts, and a broader picture of the relevance of physics to their chosen career and the world around them. In particular, College Physics 

  • BUILDS students’ problem-solving abilities and confidence–starting with basic skills and core concepts, using explicit and systematic problem-solving strategies, and carefully progressing to more advanced and wide-ranging problems
  • INTEGRATES relevant examples and interesting topics–drawing from students’ majors and the world they live in and carefully woven into the text and worked examples to give students motivation, a means to consolidate their understanding, and a clear context for how physics is valuable to them
  • EXPLICITLY ADDRESSES students’ preconceptions, misconceptions, and common stumbling blocks–guiding students to a solid foundational knowledge of connected concepts and to confidence in applying their understanding
  • PROVIDES a highly readable and accessible text–building from familiar and concrete examples, providing a carefully structured learning path, and employing key ideas from educational research into how visual pedagogy can be used to help make physics more accessible

College Physics is accompanied by MasteringPhysicsTM–the most advanced, educationally effective, and widely used online physics tutorial and homework system in the world. MasteringPhysicsä provides a next-generation solution for assigning uncompromising quantitative and conceptual online homework, giving each student tutorial help precisely where and when they need it, and evaluating student performance in detail on an individual and class level.

 

All end-of-chapter problems from the text have been tested in MasteringPhysics by hundreds of students, ensuring unprecedented clarity, accuracy and quality.

 

Builds students’ problem-solving abilities and confidence — Students need to learn how to visualize problems and proceed to solve them, rather than simply look for a similar example that they can minimally modify.

  • A consistent 3-step approach provides a problem-solving framework throughout the book: students learn to analyze a problem from several qualitative perspectives, and plan the solution (in the PREPARE step) before treating it mathematically (SOLVE), and then analyzing their result (ASSESS).
  • Detailed problem-solving strategies for different topics are developed throughout the book, each one built on the PREPARE/SOLVE/ASSESS framework.
  • Tactics Boxes give explicit procedures for developing specific skills (drawing free-body diagrams, using ray tracing, etc.).
  • Worked examples follow the 3-step strategies and include careful explanations of the underlying, and often unstated, reasoning.
  • Conceptual examples build students’ qualitative reasoning skills. They follow a REASON and then ASSESS strategy (no math is involved and so a SOLVE step is not needed).
  • Explicit instruction, particularly on figures, is provided to help the student translate back and forth between different representations — such as verbal, pictorial, graphical, and mathematical descriptions.
  • The Student Workbook provides straightforward confidence- and skill-building exercises.

Integrates relevant examples and interesting topics — Interesting and wide-ranging examples from biology, technology, sports, and medicine provide students with motivational examples of how physics will help them in their chosen career and in understanding the world around them.

  • Many Examples and end-of-chapter problems are set in the context of an interesting real-world scenario.
  • Try It Yourself activities throughout the text provide students with simple real-world experiments, designed to reinforce an idea through direct experience.
  • Free-standing applicationswith photographs and short captions are provided in the margin to connect the physical principles with the real world.

Explicitly addresses students’ preconceptions, misconceptions, and common stumbling blocks — Throughout, the text carefully guides students away from their known preconceptions, and around common sticking points (often unstated or under-explained in conventional texts).

  • Based on the most recent educational research, the text takes exceptional care to guide students through what they need to know: it is complete, concise, and well worded.
  • NOTE paragraphs target the many details (including math-related skills) that often cause students the most trouble.
  • Stop to Think questions at the end of a section encourage active thought over passive reading. Using proven techniques from cognitive science, they are designed to help students discover and overcome their misconceptions. Answers are provided at the end of the chapter.
  • Math relationship boxes discuss in detail the key mathematical relationships that are most common in this course, giving textual, graphical, and algebraic representations, and tips on how to reason with limiting cases, etc. Icons throughout the text refer back to the relevant math box when the relationship reoccurs, helping students see connections in the mathematical forms they need to use.

Provides a highly readable and accessible text — Research shows that these students need an engaging text that starts from concrete examples and carefully works to abstract concepts, making connections and guiding understanding.

  • New concepts are introduced through observations about the real world and theories grounded by making sense of observations. This inductive approach illustrates how science operates, and has been shown to improve student learning.
  • Each chapter begins with a roadmap of the chapter ahead (in the Looking Ahead learning goals) so that students can focus on the key ideas; Looking Back references allow them to see key connections with earlier ideas.
  • Unique visual chapter summaries help students organize their knowledge in a coherent hierarchy, rather than a jumbled set of disconnected facts, figures, and equations.
  • Throughout, key ideas from educational research and proven techniques from cognitive science drive a unique approach to figures (e.g. annotation directly on figures, simplified use of color, little extraneous detail) to make physics more accessible.

Part I  Force and Motion

1 Concepts of Motion and Mathematical Background        

2 Motion in One Dimension        

3 Vectors and Motion In Two Dimensions                                              

4 Forces and Newton’s Laws of Motion 

5 Applying Newton’s Laws                                            

6 Circular Motion, Orbits, and Gravity    

7 Rotational Motion                    

8 Equilibrium and Elasticity                                                          

Part II Conservation Laws                               

9 Momentum                                                      

10 Energy and Work                    

11 Using Energy                                       

Part III Properties of Matter    

12 Thermal Properties of Matter

13 Fluids                                      

Part IV Oscillations and Waves

14 Oscillations                              

15 Traveling Waves and Sound                             

16 Superposition and Standing Waves      

Part V Optics  

17 Wave Optics               

18 Ray Optics                  

19 Optical Instruments      

Part VI  Electricity and Magnetism                   

20 Electric Forces and Fields                                                                    

21 Electrical Potential                   

22 Current and Resistance                        

23 Circuits

24 Magnetic Fields and Forces     

25 Electromagnetic Induction and Electromagnetic Waves 

26 AC Circuits     

Part VII  Modern Physics                    

27 Relativity                                 

28 Quantum Physics                                             

29 Atoms and Molecules                                                  

30 Nuclear Physics                                                           

 

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