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Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics (chs 1-42) w/Mastering Physics
Randall D. Knight, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

ISBN-10: 0805386858
ISBN-13: 9780805386851

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2004
Format: Cloth Package
Published: 12/18/2003

Built from the ground up on our new understanding of how students learn, Randall Knight's introductory university physics textbook leads students to a deeper understanding of the concepts and more proficient problem-solving skills. This authoritative text provides effective learning strategies and in-depth instruction to better guide students around the misconceptions and preconceptions they often bring to the course.

The superior problem-solving pedagogy of Physics for Scientists and Engineers uses a detailed, methodical approach that sequentially builds students' skills and confidence so they are better equipped to tackle more complex problems. Knight combines rigorous quantitative coverage with a descriptive, inductive approach that leads to a deeper student understanding of the core concepts. Pictorial, graphical, algebraic, and descriptive representations for each concept are skillfully combined to provide a resource that students with different learning styles can readily grasp. The research-proven media package features MasteringPhysics™, an online student tutorial and assignable homework program that helps students develop problem-solving skills and lets instructors know where their students are having trouble.

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Knight, Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics and MasteringPhysics™, 2/E

Superior Problem Solving Pedagogy leads students to more confidence and more proficiency with more advanced problems through:
- Model/Visualize/Solve/Assess Strategy provides students with a rigorous and systematic plan for attacking any problem. This approach is consistently reinforced throughout the book with worked examples.
- Worked examples provide a careful and thorough development of the solution, emphasizing steps that are often implicit or omitted in other books, but that leave many students confused and unable to proceed.
- Tactic Boxes lay out explicit procedures for particular types of problems, with carefully explained examples.
- In-text “Note” paragraphs emphasize simple tips and alert students to common mistakes or misconceptions.
- The Workbook provides short problems and exercises that focus on developing a particular skill and good habits for setting up the problem before trying to solve it (by laying out knowns and unknowns, drawing free-body diagrams, etc.). The student builds confidence with these popular workbook exercises before tackling the end-of-chapter problems.
- End-of-chapter problems build in difficulty to allow students to gain confidence. Questions are not tagged to sections in the chapter to encourage students to think about the chapter as a whole, rather than hunt for equations.

Concrete to abstract inductive approach leads students from a real-life situation they are familiar and confident with to the underlying theory. For example, the concept of magnetic flux through a surface is compared with the air from a fan blowing through a loop.

Explicit roadmaps and learning goals are provided throughout to help students structure their studying and build up a broader framework for how different topics relate.

An innovative and integrated illustration program promotes learning and reinforces connections to key ideas. The figures are carefully integrated with the text and combine pictorial, graphical, and algebraic representations to reflect that different students learn in different ways, and to help them all build confidence with translating between different representations of a particular concept.

Innovative visual summaries at the end of each chapter take traditional chapter summaries further to provide a table that combines descriptive, mathematical, and graphical summaries and also shows connections between general principles, important concepts, and key skills.

The Powerful media package includes the research-proven Mastering Physics™, ActivPhysics Online, and an Instructor's Resource CD-ROM.

I. NEWTON'S LAWS.

Overview: Why Things Change.

1. Concepts of Motion.

2. Kinematics: the Mathematics of Motion.

3. Vectors and Coordinate Systems.

4. Force and Motion.

5. Dynamics I: Motion Along a Line.

6. Dynamics II: Motion in a Plane.

7. Dynamics III: Motion in a Circle.

8. Newton's Third Law.

Summary: Newton's Laws.

II. CONSERVATION LAWS.

Overview: Why Some Things Stay the Same.

9. Impulse and Momentum.

10. Energy.

11. Work.

Summary: Conservation Laws.

III. APPLICATIONS OF NEWTONIAN MECHANICS.

Overview: From Nanostructures to the Stars.

12. Newton's Theory of Gravity.

13. Rotation of a Rigid Body.

14. Oscillations.

15. Fluids and Elasticity.

Summary: Newtonian Mechanics.

IV. THERMODYNAMICS.

Overview: It's All About Energy.

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.

Summary: Thermodynamics.

V. WAVES AND OPTICS.

Overview: Beyond the Particle Model.

20. Traveling Waves.

21. Superposition.

22. Wave Optics.

23. Ray Optics.

24. Modern Optics and Matter Waves.

Summary: Waves and Optics.

VI. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM.

Overview: Charges, Currents, and Fields.

25. Electric Charges and Forces.

26. The Electric Field.

27. Gauss's Law.

28. Current and Conductivity.

29. The Electric Potential.

30. Potential and Field.

31. Fundamentals of Circuits.

32. The Magnetic Field.

33. Electromagnetic Induction.

34. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.

35. AC Circuits.

Summary: Electricity and Magnetism.

VII. RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM PHYSICS.

Overview: Contemporary Physics.

36. Relativity.

37. The End of Classical Physics.

38. Quantization.

39. Wave Functions and Probabilities.

40. One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics.

41. Atomic Physics.

42. Nuclear Physics.

Summary: Relativity and Quantum Physics.

Calculus-Based Physics (Physics & Astronomy)

Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics and MasteringPhysics™, 2/E
Knight
©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Cloth Package; 1464 pp | Instock
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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.

Randy Knight has taught introductory physics for more than 20 years at Ohio State University and California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, where he is currently Professor of Physics. Professor Knight received a bachelor's degree in physics from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He 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 this book.

Professor Knight's research interests are in the field of lasers and spectroscopy. He recently led the effort to establish an environmental studies program at Cal Poly, where, in addition to teaching introductory physics, he also teaches classes on energy, oceanography, and environmental issues. 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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H-iTT Classroom Response System for Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach
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MasteringPhysics™ for University Physics
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MasteringPhysics Digital Student Access Code
Knight
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ISBN-10: 0805395636 | ISBN-13: 9780805395631
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MasteringPhysics™ for University Physics
Pritchard
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers Website
Knight
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For Calculus-Based Physics

ActivPhysics Volume 1, 2/E
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Stand-alone Access Code Tutor Center
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MasteringPhysics™ for University Physics
Pritchard
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ISBN-10: 0805387226 | ISBN-13: 9780805387223
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers Website
Knight
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ISBN-10: 0805389997 | ISBN-13: 9780805389999

This package contains:
• Addison-Wesley, MasteringPhysics™ Student Access Kit for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach (2004)
• Knight, Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics (chs 1-42) (2004)
• Knight, Student Workbook (2004)

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