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Conceptual Physics Media Update, 10/E
Paul G. Hewitt, City College of San Francisco

ISBN-10: 0321548094
ISBN-13: 9780321548092

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2009
Format: Cloth Package; 816 pp
Published: 05/19/2008

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Since defining this course 30 years ago, Paul Hewitt’s best-selling text continues to be the benchmark book that two-thirds of professors use and by which all others are judged. In Conceptual Physics Media Update,Tenth Edition, Paul Hewitt shows how a compelling text and the most advanced media can be integrated to empower professors as they bring physics to life for non-science majors, both in and out of class. For the Tenth Edition, Hewitt helps students connect physics to their everyday experiences and the world around them, and provides additional help on solving mathematical problems.

Hewitt's text is famous for engaging students with analogies and imagery from real-world situations that build a strong conceptual understanding of physical principles ranging from classical mechanics to modern physics. With this strong foundation, students are better equipped to understand the equations and formulas of physics, and are motivated to explore the thought-provoking exercises and fun projects in each chapter. Icons in the text direct students to fun and effective interactive activities on The Physics Place website. This highly acclaimed website features ten new Interactive Figures^™ that coach students through core topics, updated Interactive Tutorials, engaging Video Demonstrations, and hundreds of problems and activities for self-study and assessment.

Features

An extensive full-color figure and photo program includes the author’s hallmark cartoons, which are both approachable and informative.
Fun and easy-to-perform projects involve students in the scientific process of exploration and observation.
A wealth of exercises and questions have beenrefined through use by more than 750,000 students.
Problem sets have been expanded and revised in each chapter, including many new numerical problems.
Media icons in the text direct the student to targeted activities on The Physics Place website, which provides both deductive and inductive tools for learning physics. The site includes: Interactive Tutorials^™, gradable multiple-choice Quizzes, current web links, Hewitt’s famous mini-lectures and demonstration videos, and much more.
Check Yourself and Check Your Answer boxes embedded within the text help students gauge their level of understanding of the material just covered.
Practicing Physics boxes allow students to work through a problem or experiment based on the material covered in each chapter.
One-Step Calculations at the end of each chapter help familiarize students with important formulas.

A wide variety of quantitative problems are provided at the end of each chapter.
Insights boxes provide short snippets of information about how topics in the text relate to real-life situations, experiments, and other parts of the book.

New To This Edition

The Physics Place website now includes 15 updated Interactive Tutorials^™available for automatic grading and 10 brand-new Interactive Figures covering such topics as fluid mechanics, energy and change of phase, the greenhouse effect, waves, and atomic physics.
The Media Manager for the Conceptual Physics CD-ROM provides the most comprehensive resource available of purpose-built in-class teaching aids, including high-resolution JPEGs of all figure and photos from the book, all of the Interactive Figures and Video Demonstrations, PowerPoint Lecture Outlines and Clicker Questions written by the author, plus electronic versions of the Next-Time Questions, Instructor Manual, and Test Bank.
An online E-Book available through The Physics Place offers the entire textbook in an interactive format. Features include full-size JPEGs of all images in the text, hyperlinks to Interactive Figures, Tutorials, and Videos, pop-up Vocabulary Terms, an Annotation tool, and more.

Table of Contents

1. About Science

Unit One: Mechanics

2. Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia

3. Linear Motion

4. Newton's Second Law of Motion: Force and Acceleration

5. Newton's Third Law of Motion: Action and Reaction

6. Momentum

7. Energy

8. Rotational Motion

9. Gravity

10. Projectile and Satellite Motion

Unit Two: Properties of Matter

11. Atomic Nature of Matter

12. Solids

13. Liquids

14. Gases and Plasmas

Unit Three: Heat

15. Temperature, Heat and Expansion

16. Heat Transfer

17. Change of Phase

18. Thermodynamics

Unit Four: Sound

19. Vibrations and Waves

20. Sound

21. Musical Sounds

Unit Five: Electricity and Magnetism

22. Electrostatics

23. Electric Current

24. Magnetism

25. Electromagnetic Induction

Unit Six: Light

26. Properties of Light

27. Color

28. Reflection and Refraction

29. Light Waves

30. Light Emission

31. Light Quanta

Unit Seven: Atomic and Nuclear Physics

32. The Atom and the Quantum

33. Atomic Nucleus and Radioactivity

34. Nuclear Fission and Fusion

Unit Eight: Relativity

35. Special Theory of Relativity

36. General Theory of Relativity

Appendices

A. Systems of Measurement

B. More About Motion

C. Graphing

D. More About Vectors

E. Exponential Growth and Doubling Time

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Paul G. Hewitt was a Silver Medalist flyweight Boxing Champion for New England States at the age of 17. He was then a cartoonist, sign painter, and uranium prospector before beginning his physics studies. Conceptual Physics was first published in 1971, while Hewitt was teaching at City College of San Francisco. He has also served as a guest lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Hewitt returned to San Francisco to teach at the City College and the well-known science museum, The Exploratorium. He retired from full-time teaching in 2000, and currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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