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College Physics, Volume 1 (Chs. 1-16), 8/E
ISBN-10: 0805378227
ISBN-13: 9780805378221
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper Bound with PIN
Published: 12/12/2005
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Description
For more than five decades, Sears and Zemansky's College Physics has provided the most reliable foundation of physics education for students around the world. For the Eighth Edition, Robert Geller joins Hugh Young to produce a comprehensive update of this benchmark text.
A broad and thorough introduction to physics, this new edition carefully integrates many solutions from educational research to help students to develop greater confidence in solving problems, deeper conceptual understanding, and stronger quantitative-reasoning skills, while helping them connect what they learn with their other courses and the changing world around them.
This product is an alternate version of:
Young & Geller,
College Physics, (Chs.1-30) with MasteringPhysics™, 8/E
Young & Geller,
College Physics, Volume 1 (Chs. 1-16) with MasteringPhysics, 8/E
Features
- A systematic approach to problem solving. To solve problems with confidence, students must learn to approach problems effectively at a global level, must understand the physics in question, and must acquire the specific skills needed for particular types of problems. The Eighth Edition provides research-proven tools for each goal.
o The worked examples all follow a consistent and explicit global problem-solving strategy drawn from educational research. This 3-step approach puts special emphasis on how to set-up the problem before trying to solve it, and the importance of how to reflect on whether the answer is sensible.
o Worked example solutions emphasize the steps and decisions students often omit. In particular, many worked examples include pencil diagrams: hand-drawn diagrams that show exactly what a student should draw in the set-up step of solving the problem.
o Conceptual Analysis and Quantitative Analysis problems help the students practice their qualitative and quantitative understanding of the physics. The Quantitative Analysis problems focus on skills of quantitative and proportional reasoning -- skills that are key to success on the MCATs. No other introductory physics text addresses this need. The CAs and QAs use a multiple-choice format to elicit specific common misconceptions.
o Problem-solving strategies teach the students tactics for particular types of problems -- such as problems requiring Newton's second law, energy conservation, etc – and follow the same, 3-step global approach (set-up, solve, and reflect).
- Unique, highly effective figures incorporate the latest ideas from educational research. Extraneous detail has been removed and color used only for strict pedagogical purposes – for instance, in mechanics, color is used to identify the object of interest while all other objects are grayscale. Illustrations include helpful blue annotated comments to guide students in ‘reading’ graphs and physics figures. Throughout, figures, models, and graphs are placed side by side to help student ‘translate’ between multiple representations. Pencil sketches are used consistently in worked examples to emphasize what students should draw.
- Unique visual chapter summaries show each concept in words, math, and figures to reinforce how to ‘translate’ between different representations and address different student learning styles.
- Rich and diverse EOC problem sets. The renowned Sears/Zemansky problems, refined over five decades of use, have been expanded and enhanced for today's courses.
o New in each chapter is a set of multiple-choice problems that test the skills developed by the Qualitative Analysis and Quantitative Analysis problems in the chapter text. The multiple-choice format elicits specific common misconceptions, enabling students to pinpoint their misunderstandings.
o The General Problems contain many context-rich problems (also known as real-world problems), which require the student to simplify and model more complex real-world situations.
o The problem sets include more biomedically oriented problems than in any other College Physics text.
- Connects physics with the student's world. In-margin photos with explanatory captions provide diverse, interesting, and self-contained examples of physics at work in the world.
- Writing that is easy to follow and rigorous. The writing is friendly yet focused; it conveys an exact, careful, straight-forward understanding of the physics, with an emphasis on the connections between concepts.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Models, Measurements, and Vectors
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Idealized Models
1.3 Standards and Units
1.4 Unit Consistency and Conversions
1.5 Precision and Significant Figures
1.6 Estimates and Orders of Magnitude
1.7 Vectors and Vector Addition
1.8 Components of Vectors
Chapter 2 Motion along a Straight Line
2.1 Displacement and Average Velocity
2.2 Instantaneous Velocity
2.3 Average and Instantaneous Acceleration
2.4 Motion with Constant Acceleration
2.5 Proportional Reasoning
2.6 Freely Falling Objects
*2.7 Relative Velocity along a Straight Line
Chapter 3 Motion in a Plane
3.1 Velocity in a Plane
3.2 Acceleration in a Plane
3.3 Projectile Motion
3.4 Uniform Circular Motion
*3.5 Relative Velocity in a Plane
Chapter 4 Newton’s Laws of Motion
4.1 Force
4.2 Newton’s First Law
4.3 Mass and Newton’s Second Law
4.4 Mass and Weight
4.5 Newton’s Third Law
4.6 Free-Body Diagrams
Chapter 5 Applications of Newton’s Laws
5.1 Equilibrium of a Particle
5.2 Applications of Newton’s Second Law
5.3 Contact Forces and Friction
5.4 Elastic Forces
5.5 Forces in Nature
Chapter 6 Circular Motion and Gravitation
6.1 Force in Circular Motion
6.2 Motion in a Vertical Circle
6.3 Newton’s Law of Gravitation
6.4 Weight
6.5 Satellite Motion
Chapter 7 Work and Energy
7.1 An Overview of Energy
7.2 Work
7.3 Work and Kinetic Energy
7.4 Work Done by a Varying Force
7.5 Potential Energy
7.6 Conservation of Energy
7.7 Conservative and Nonconservative Forces
7.8 Power
Chapter 8 Momentum
8.1 Momentum
8.2 Conservation of Momentum
8.3 Inelastic Collisions
8.4 Elastic Collisions
8.5 Impulse
8.6 Center of Mass
8.7 Motion of the Center of Mass
*8.8 Rocket Propulsion
Chapter 9 Rotational Motion
9.1 Angular Velocity and Angular Acceleration
9.2 Rotation with Constant Angular Acceleration
9.3 Relationship between Linear and Angular Quantities
9.4 Kinetic Energy of Rotation and Moment of Inertia
9.5 Rotation about a Moving Axis
Chapter 10 Dynamics of Rotational Motion
10.1 Torque
10.2 Torque and Angular Acceleration
10.3 Work and Power in Rotational Motion
10.4 Angular Momentum
10.5 Conservation of Angular Momentum
10.6 Equilibrium of a Rigid Body
*10.7 Vector Nature of Angular Quantities
Chapter 11 Elasticity and Periodic Motion
11.1 Stress, Strain, and Elastic Deformations
11.2 Periodic Motion
11.3 Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
11.4 Equations of Simple Harmonic Motion
11.5 The Simple Pendulum
11.6 Damped and Forced Oscillations
Chapter 12 Mechanical Waves and Sound
12.1 Mechanical Waves
12.2 Periodic Mechanical Waves
12.3 Wave Speeds
*12.4 Mathematical Description of a Wave
12.5 Reflections and Superposition
12.6 Standing Waves and Normal Modes
12.7 Longitudinal Standing Waves
12.8 Interference
12.9 Sound and Hearing
12.10 Sound Intensity
12.11 Beats 12.12 The Doppler Effect
12.13 Applications of Acoustics
*12.14 Musical Tones
Chapter 13 Fluid Mechanics
13.1 Density
13.2 Pressure in a Fluid
13.3 Archimedes’ Principle: Buoyancy
*13.4 Surface Tension and Capillarity
13.5 Fluid Flow
13.6 Bernoulli’s Equation
13.7 Applications of Bernoulli’s equation
13.8 Real Fluids: Viscosity and Turbulence
Chapter 14 Temperature and Heat
14.1 Temperature and Thermal Equilibrium
14.2 Temperature Scales
14.3 Thermal Expansion
14.4 Quantity of Heat
14.5 Phase Changes
14.6 Calorimetry
14.7 Heat Transfer
*14.8 Solar Energy and Resource Conservation
Chapter 15 Thermal Properties of Matter
15.1 The Mole and Avogadro’s Number
15.2 Equations of State
15.3 Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas
15.4 Heat Capacities
15.5 The First Law of Thermodynamics
15.6 Thermodynamic Processes
15.7 Properties of an Ideal Gas
Chapter 16 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
16.1 Directions of Thermodynamic Processes
16.2 Heat Engines
16.3 Internal Combustion Engines
16.4 Refrigerators
16.5 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
16.6 The Carnot Engine: The Most Efficient Heat Engine
16.7 Entropy
*16.8 The Kelvin Temperature Scale
*16.9 Energy Resources: A Case Study in Thermodynamics
Author Bios
Hugh D. Young is Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Carnegie Mellon for both undergraduate and graduate study and earned his Ph.D. in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1956, and has also spent two years as a visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Hugh's career has centered entirely around undergraduate education. He has written several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a coauthor with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky for their well-known introductory texts. In addition to his role on Sears and Zemansky's College Physics, he is currently a coauthor with Roger Freedman on Sears and Zemanksy's University Physics.
Hugh is an enthusiastic skier, climber, and hiker. He also served for several years as Associate Organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh, and has played numerous organ recitals in the Pittsburgh area. Prof. Young and his wife Alice usually travel extensively in the summer, especially in Europe and in the desert canyon country of southern Utah.
Robert M. Geller teaches physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also obtained his Ph.D. under Robert Antonucci in observational cosmology. Currently, he is involved in two major research projects: a search for cosmological halos predicted by the Big Bang, and a search for the flares that are predicted to occur when a supermassive black hole consumes a star.
Rob also has a strong focus on undergraduate education. In 2003, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. He trains the graduate student teaching assistants on methods of physics education. He is also a frequent faculty leader for the UCSB Physics Circus, in which student volunteers perform exciting and thought-provoking physics demonstrations to elementary schools.
Rob loves the outdoors. He and his wife Susanne enjoy backpacking along rivers and fly fishing, usually with rods she has build and flies she has tied. Their daughter Zoe loves fishing too, but her fish tend to be plastic, and float in the bathtub.
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