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Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics and MasteringPhysics™, 2/E
Randall D. Knight, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

ISBN-10: 0321513339
ISBN-13: 9780321513335

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth Package; 1464 pp
Published: 10/09/2007

Suggested retail price: $195.00
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The package for Physics for Scientists and Engineers includes:

  • Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics, 2/e (text)
  • Student Workbook for Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics  (workbook)
  • MasteringPhysics® Student Access Kit (access kit)

As the most widely adopted new physics text in more than 50 years, Knight’s Physics for Scientists and Engineers was published to widespread critical acclaim from professors and students. In this eagerly awaited second edition, Knight builds on the research-proven instructional techniques he introduced, as well as national data of student performance, to take student learning even further. Knight’s unparalleled insight into student learning difficulties, and his impeccably skillful crafting of text and figures at every level — from macro to micro — to address these difficulties, results in a uniquely effective and accessible book, leading students to a deeper and better-connected understanding of the concepts and more proficient problem-solving skills.

 

Building on an NSF-sponsored educational research program and input from tens of thousands of student users, the second edition refines and extends the pedagogical innovations that years of use has now shown to be effective. Unprecedented analysis of national student metadata has allowed every problem to be systematically enhanced for educational effectives, and to ensure problem sets of ideal topic coverage, balance of qualitative and quantitative problems, and range of difficulty and duration.

 

The second edition comes with the latest edition of MasteringPhysics™—the most advanced, educationally effective (as shown by gains in student exams scores and independent tests), and widely used online physics tutorial and homework system in the world. It provides the largest library of research-based tutorials and textbook problems available, and automatic grading of activities as wide-ranging as numerical problems with randomized values and algebraic answers to free-hand drawn graphs and free-body diagrams.


Builds problem-solving skills and confidence using an explicit, methodical, and consistent approach.

  • A consistent 4-step approach provides a problem-solving framework throughout the book (and all supplements): students learn the importance of making assumptions (in the MODEL step) and gathering information and making sketches (in the VISUALIZE step) before treating the problem mathematically (SOLVE) and then analyzing their result (ASSESS).
  • Detailed problem-solving strategies for different topics and categories of problems are developed throughout the book, each one built on the MODEL/VISUALIZE/SOLVE/ASSESS framework.
  • Tactics Boxes give step-by-step procedures for developing specific skills (drawing free-body diagrams, using ray tracing, etc.).
  • Worked examples follow the 4-step strategies and include careful explanations of the underlying, and often unstated, reasoning.
  • The Student Workbook provides straightforward confidence- and skill-building exercises, bridging the gap between worked examples and end-of-chapter problems. Worksheets following the MODEL/VISUALIZE/SOLVE/ASSESS framework provide tear-out templates for students to follow when practicing solving problems.

Promotes a deeper and better-connected understanding using a structured learning path and an inductive approach with exceptional clarity.

  • Each chapter begins with a motivational roadmap. Looking Ahead provides learning goals to focus the student on the key ideas; Looking Back references consolidate connections with previous topics.
  • Unique and critically acclaimed visual chapter summaries consolidate understanding by providing each concept in words, math, and figures and organizing these into a vertical hierarchy—from General Principles (top) to Applications (bottom).
  • The student’s understanding of groups of chapters is also consolidated. Each Part begins with a two-page introductory Overview of the chapters ahead. Each Part ends with a Summary that draws together key concepts from the preceding chapter into a visual Knowledge Structure.
  • 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 by reconciling new ideas with what they already know.
  • NOTE paragraphs throughout guide students away from known preconceptions and around common sticking points and highlight many math- and vocabulary-related issues that have been proven to cause difficulties.
  • Stop to Think questions at the end of a section allow students to quickly check their understanding. Using powerful ranking-task and graphical techniques, they are designed to efficiently probe key misconceptions and encourage active reading. (Answers are provided at the end of the chapter.)

Pioneers the implementation of proven visual techniques that cognitive science has shown significantly increase engagement, assimilation, and retention of science concepts.

  • Figures are carefully streamlined in detail and color so students focus on the physics–for instance, the object of interest in mechanics.
  • Explicit instruction as annotations directly on figures helps students to interpret figures and graphs.
  • Extensive use is made of multiple representations–placing different representations side by side to help students develop the key skill of translating between words, math, and figures. Essential to good problem-solving, this skill is overlooked in most physics textbooks.
  • Analogy is used throughout the text and figures to consolidate student understanding by comparing with a more familiar concept or situation.

Provides research-enhanced problems for optimized assessment and practice – Unprecedented analysis of national student metadata (including time spent, most common wrong answers, and comment rate) has allowed every problem to be systematically enhanced for educational effectiveness and accurately calibrated in difficulty (shown in the book) and duration (provided in MasteringPhysics™). Similar analysis has allowed the problem sets in every chapter to be revised to ensure ideal topic coverage, balance of qualitative and quantitative problems, and range of difficulty and duration.

  • Conceptual Questions require careful reasoning and can be used for group discussions or individual work.
  • Exercises (for each section) allow students to build up their skills and confidence with straightforward, one-step questions.
  • Problems (spanning concepts from the whole chapter), require in-depth reasoning and planning, and allow students to practice their problem-solving strategies. Context-rich problems require students to simplify and model more complex real-world situations. Specifically labeled problems integrate concepts from multiple previous chapters.
  • Challenge Problems push the best students even further.

  • Special Emphasis on using and interpreting graphs is in both the textbook and the accompanying Student Workbook to further develop the use of multiple representations.
  • “Annotated figures” have become an even stronger part of the pedagogy to build on their proven effectiveness.
  • Worked examples are built around real-world scenarios to enhance the accessibility and relevance of the material.
  • Hand-drawn sketches are incorporated into select worked examples to provide a clear model of what students should draw during their own problem solving.
  • The end-of-chapter problems are rated by students to show difficulty level with the variety expanded to include more real-world, challenging, and explicitly calculus-based problems.
  • The revised Workbook is tightly integrated with the main text – following the same textbook strategies, and is explicitly referenced throughout the text. Conceptual questions have been moved from the Workbook into the textbook to provide qualitative and/or discussion questions in the textbook and to allow the Workbook to focus on hands-on drawing, graphing and sketching exercises.
  • A chapter on optical instruments and a handful of additional, new subtopics have been added.

Part I Newton's Laws

1. Concepts of Motion

2. Kinematics in One Dimension

3. Vectors and Coordinate Systems

4. Kinematics in Two Dimensions

5. Force and Motion

6. Dynamics I: Motion Along a Line

7. Newton's Third Law

8. Dynamics II: Motion in a Plane

 

Part II Conservation Laws

9. Impulse and Momentum

10. Energy

11. Work

 

Part III Applications of Newtonian Mechanics

12. Rotation of a Rigid Body

13. Newton's Theory of Gravity

14. Oscillations

15. Fluids and Elasticity

 

Part IV Thermodynamics

16. A Macroscopic Description of Matter

17. Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

18. The Micro/Macro Connection

19. Heat Engines and Refrigerators

 

Part V Waves and Optics

20.  Traveling Waves

21.  Superposition

22.  Wave Optics

23.  Ray Optics

24.  Optical Instruments

25.  Modern Optics and Matter Waves

 

Part VI Electricity and Magnetism

26.   Electric Charges and Forces

27.   The Electric Field

28.   Gauss's Law

29.   The Electric Potential

30.   Potential and Field

31.   Current and Resistance

32.   Fundamentals of Circuits

33.   The Magnetic Field

34.   Electromagnetic Induction

35.   Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

36.   AC Circuits

 

Part VII Relativity and Quantum Physics

37.   Relativity

38.   The End of Classical Physics

39.   Quantization

40.   Wave Functions and Uncertainty

41.   One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics

42.   Atomic Physics

43.   Nuclear Physics

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Randy Knight has taught introductory physics for 25 years at Ohio State University and California Polytechnic University, where he is currently Professor of Physics and Director of the Minor in Environmental Studies. Randy received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before joining the faculty at Ohio State University. It was at Ohio State, under the mentorship of Professor Leonard Jossem, that he began to learn about the research in physics education that, many years later, led to Five Easy Lessons: Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching and this book. Randy’s research interests are in the field of lasers and spectroscopy. When he’s not in the classroom or in front of a computer, you can find Randy hiking, sea kayaking, playing the piano, or spending time with his wife Sally and their seven cats.

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    Building on an NSF-sponsored educational research program and input from tens of thousands of student users, the second edition refines and extends the pedagogical innovations that years of use has now shown to be effective. Unprecedented analysis of national student metadata has allowed every problem to be systematically enhanced for educational effectives, and to ensure problem sets of ideal topic coverage, balance of qualitative and quantitative problems, and range of difficulty and duration.

     

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