Last edition Elsevier For the Fourth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Knight continues to build on strong research-based foundations with fine-tuned and streamlined content, hallmark features, and an even more robust MasteringPhysics program, taking student learning to a new level. By extending problem-solving guidance to include a greater emphasis on modeling and significantly revised and more challenging problem sets, students gain confidence and skills in problem solving. A modified Table of Contents and the addition of advanced topics now accommodate different teaching preferences and course structures.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9780134081496
Imprint: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Language: English
Authors: Randall D. Knight
Pub Date: 01/2016
Pages: 1136
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 2,500.00 grams
Size: h 236 x 277 mm
Product Type: Hardcover
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- • NEW! Chapter ordering changes allow instructors to more easily organize content as needed to accommodate labs, schedules, and different teaching styles.Work and energy are now covered before momentum, oscillations are grouped with mechanical waves, and optics appears after electricity and magnetism.
- • NEW! Addition of advanced topics as optional sections further expands instructors’ options. Topics include rocket propulsion, gyroscopes and precession, the wave equation (including for electromagnetic waves), the speed of sound in gases, and more details on the interference of light.
- • REVISED! Enhanced Chapter Previews have been reconceived to address the questions students are most likely to ask themselves while studying the material for the first time. Questions cover the important ideas, and provide a big-picture overview of the chapter’s key principles.
- • NEW! Looking Back Pointers enable students to look back at a previous chapter when it’s important to review concepts. Pointers provide the specific section to consult at the exact point in the text where they need to use this material.
- Randall D. Knight, (Professor Emeritus), California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. Randy Knight taught introductory physics for 32 years at Ohio State University and California Polytechnic University, where he is Professor Emeritus of Physics. Professor Knight received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley and 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 that he began to learn about the research in physics education that, many years later, led to Five Easy Lessons: Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching and this book, as well as College Physics: A Strategic Approach, co-authored with Brian Jones and Stuart Field. Professor Knight’s research interests are in the field of laser spectroscopy and environmental science. When he’s not in front of a computer, you can find Randy hiking, sea kayaking, playing the piano, or spending time with his wife Sally and their six cats.
- I. Newton’s Laws
- 1. Concepts of Motion
- 2. Kinematics in One Dimension
- 3. Vectors and Coordinate Systems
- 4. Kinematics in Two Dimensions
- 5. Force and Motion
- 6. Dynamics I: Motion Along a Line
- 7. Newton’s Third Law
- 8. Dynamics II: Motion in a Plane
- II. Conservation Laws
- 9. Work and Kinetic Energy
- 10. Interactions and Potential Energy
- 11. Impulse and Momentum
- III. Applications of Newtonian Mechanics
- 12. Rotation of a Rigid Body
- 13. Newton’s Theory of Gravity
- 14. Fluids and Elasticity
- IV. Oscillations and Waves
- 15. Oscillations
- 16. Traveling Waves
- 17. Superposition
- V. Thermodynamics
- 18. A Macroscopic Description of Matter
- 19. Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
- 20. The Micro/Macro Connection
- 21. Heat Engines and Refrigerators
- VI. Electricity and Magnetism
- 22. Electric Charges and Forces
- 23. The Electric Field
- 24. Gauss’s Law
- 25. The Electric Potential
- 26. Potential and Field
- 27. Current and Resistance
- 28. Fundamentals of Circuits
- 29. The Magnetic Field
- 30. Electromagnetic Induction
- 31. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
- 32. AC Circuits
- VII. Optics
- 33. Wave Optics
- 34. Ray Optics
- 35. Optical Instruments
- VIII. Relativity and Quantum Physics
- 36. Relativity
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