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Essential University Physics
ISBN-10: 0805392122
ISBN-13: 9780805392128
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper Package; 848 pp
Published: 07/24/2006
Status: Instock
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Richard Wolfson’s Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and interesting real-life applications. At nearly half the length and half the price of other physics texts, Essential University Physics is a compelling alternative for professors who want to focus on the fundamentals.
Based on Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Wolfson and Pasachoff, Essential University Physics retains many of the favorite features of the original text, while introducing new pedagogical elements that incorporate proven results from physics education research. The text focuses on the fundamentals of physics, teaches sound problem-solving skills, emphasizes conceptual understanding, and makes connections to the real world. Features such as annotated figures and step-by-step problem-solving strategies help provide a clear learning path for students.
The crisp two-color design is clear and engaging. The book incorporates the research-proven approach of annotated figures, pencil-style sketches in worked examples, and visual chapter summaries. A self-evident hierarchy of pedagogical features guides the student easily through the material.
Essential University Physics is offered as two paperback volumes, available shrink-wrapped together and for sale individually. (Sold individually in select markets only.)
Features
- Focus on the fundamentals:
- The overarching theme is physics has a simple, elementary foundation that underlies seemingly disconnected topics.
- To Learn and To Know features offer learning goals and topics to review at each chapter’s outset to highlight the chapter’s key skills and ideas and its connections to other chapters.
- Key equations and definitions are on screened boxes with titles and explanatory material, so that students will not simply grab a bare equation with no sense as to how it is applied.
- Tips offer concise explanatory or cautionary notes for typical misconceptions and identify the fundamental connections between new and old topics.
- Visual chapter and part summaries present the big picture and provide visual reviews that focus on the concepts and connections of chapter material with an emphasis on multiple representations (words, math, and figures) of concepts.
- Teach sound problem-solving skills:
- The consistent and explicit problem-solving strategy is designed to develop students’ confidence and skill in systematically setting up problems rather than diving into the math.
- The IDEA (Interpret, Develop, Evaluate, and Assess) framework, used in every worked example, begins with a problem’s key ideas, stresses the importance of planning a solution and drawing a diagram, moves through the math, checks for reasonable answers, and relates the problem’s content to a broader understanding of physics.
- Strategy boxes provide specialized versions of the global strategy, adapted to specific topics.
- Pencil-style illustrations in worked examples show realistic figures that a student should draw.
- Tactics boxes review mathematical topics and develop individual skills.
- Emphasize conceptual understanding:
- Got It?questions present multiple-choice and ranking task problems in most sections to focus reading and identify misconceptions.
- The EOC section For Thought and Discussion contains qualitative questions that test understanding and promote collaborative reading with peers.
- Every worked example begins by interpreting what a problem asks and identifying the relevant concepts.
- Connect to the real world:
- Every chapter has an Application box exploring a modern, cutting-edge use of the chapter’s physics in the world.
- Informed by physics education research, context-rich problems in the end-of-chapter material require students to analyze the significant factors in physical scenarios set in the real world.
- Chapter-opener photos showcase examples of physics in everyday life along with thought provoking questions.
Table of Contents
1. Doing Physics
Part 1 Mechanics
2. Motion in a Straight Line
3. Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
4. Force and Motion
5. Using Newton’s Laws
6. Work, Energy, and Power
7. Conservation of Energy
8. Gravity
9. Systems of Particles
10. Rotational Motion
11. Rotational Vectors and Angular Momentum
12. Static Equilibrium
Part 2 Oscillations, Waves, and Fluids
13. Oscillatory Motion
14. Wave Motion
15. Fluid Motion
Part 3 Thermodynamics
16. Temperature and Heat
17. The Thermal Behavior of Matter
18. Heat, Work, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
19. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Part 4 Electromagnetism
20. Electric Charge, Force, and Field
21. Gauss’s Law
22. Electric Potential
23. Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors
24. Electric Current
25. Electric Circuits
26. Magnetism
27. Electromagnetic Induction
28. Alternating-Current Circuits
29. Electromagnetic Waves
Part 5 Optics
30. The Behavior of Light
31. Images and Optical Instruments
32. Interference and Diffraction
Part 6 Modern Physics
33. Relativity
34. Particles and Waves
35. Quantum Physics
36. Atomic Physics
37. Molecular and Solid-State Physics
38. Nuclear Physics
39. Quarks to Cosmos
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