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Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3/E
Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College
Jay M. Pasachoff, Williams College

ISBN-10: 0321035712
ISBN-13: 9780321035714

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 1999
Format: Cloth; 1073 pp
Published: 01/06/1999
Status: Out of Print

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This book emphasizes the conceptual unity of physics while providing a solid approach to help students build problem-solving skills. Scientifically sound, yet lauded by reviewers for clarity and accessibility, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Third Edition, provides pedagogical support in recognition of the trouble spots often faced by students. An abundance of interesting and diverse end-of-chapter problems motivate and intrigue students. Other aids include references within examples to related problems found at the ends of chapters, Strategy boxes, extended summaries, paired problems, and cumulative problems to integrate concepts across several chapters. This new edition is correlated with the most comprehensive physics simulation package available, ActivPhysics ™ 1 & 2.

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! Got It! boxes, three or four per chapter, provide important concept checks and dispel common misconceptions.

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! ActivPhysics™ icons throughout the text indicate a related activity on the CD-ROM.

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! Math Toolboxes in the first part of the book serve as either a refresher or primer for basic math that students need to work through the material.

NEW - <F75BS>NEW! Illustrations with annotations walk students step-by-step through concepts.

An abundance of integrated, diverse applications help students connect the material to the real world.

Tip boxes warn against common pit falls and point out problem-solving to enhance the student's understanding of physics.

Chapters 5 and 6 (Force and Motion and Using Newton's Laws) have been extensively rewritten taking into account new research in physics education, especially the Force Concept Inventory. Common student misconceptions, in both understanding and applying Newton's laws, are addressed in a clear, straightforward way.

The text is available in an Extended Edition, Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, Third Edition (Chapters 1-45), and the Standard Edition, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Third Edition (Chapters 1-39).

(This is the contents for Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics. The Standard Edition ends at Chapter 39.)

1. Doing Physics.

I. MECHANICS.

2. Motion in a Straight Line.

3. The Vector Description of Motion.

4. Motion in More Than One Direction.

5. Force and Motion.

6. Using Newton's Laws.

7. Work, Energy and Power.

8. Conservation of Energy.

9. Gravitation.

10. Systems of Particles.

11. Collisions.

12. Rotational Motion.

13. Rotational Vectors and Angular Momentum.

14. Static Equilibrium.

II. OSCILLATIONS, WAVES AND FLUIDS.

15. Oscillatory Motion.

16. Wave Motion.

17. Sound and other Wave Phenomena.

18. Fluid Motion.

III. THERMODYNAMICS.

19. Temperature and Heat.

20. The Thermal Behavior of Matter.

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

22. The Second Law of Thermodynamics.

IV. ELECTROMAGNETISM.

23. Electric Charge, Force and Field.

24. Gauss's Law.

25. Electric Potential.

26. Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors.

27. Electric Current.

28. Electric Circuits.

29. The Magnetic Field.

30. Sources of the Magnetic Field.

31. Electromagnetic Induction.

32. Inductance and Magnetic Energy.

33. Alternating-Current Circuits.

34. Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves.

V. OPTICS.

35. Reflection and Refraction.

36. Image Formation and Optical Instruments.

37. Interference and Diffraction.

VI. MODERN PHYSICS.

38. Relativity.

39. Light and Matter: Waves or Particles?

40. Quantum Mechanics.

41. Atomic Physics.

42. Molecular and Solid-State Physics.

43. Nuclear Physics.

44. Nuclear Energy: Fission and Fusion.

45. From Quarks to the Cosmos.

Appendices.

Calculus-Based Physics (Physics & Astronomy)

Author Bios

Jay M. Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College. His work as author of Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe, now in its fifth edition, led to his teaming with Rich Wolfson to write Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Third Edition. He has also collaborated on a text entitled, Invitation to Physics.

Pasachoff is on the Executive Committee of the Forum on Education of the American Physical Society, is Chair of the Astronomy Divison of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is Chair of the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union.

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