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Physics for Scientists and Engineers Richard Wolfson

Physics for Scientists and Engineers By Richard Wolfson

Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Richard Wolfson

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Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Richard Wolfson

This book emphasizes the conceptual unity of physics while providing a solid approach to help students build problem-solving skills. Scientifically sound, yet lauded by reviewers for clarity and accessibility, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Third Edition, provides pedagogical support in recognition of the trouble spots often faced by students. An abundance of interesting and diverse end-of-chapter problems motivate and intrigue students. Other aids include references within examples to related problems found at the ends of chapters, Strategy boxes, extended summaries, paired problems, and cumulative problems to integrate concepts across several chapters. This new edition is correlated with the most comprehensive physics simulation package available, ActivPhysics (TM) 1 & 2.

About Richard Wolfson

Jay M. Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College. His work as author of Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe, now in its fifth edition, led to his teaming with Rich Wolfson to write Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Third Edition. He has also collaborated on a text entitled, Invitation to Physics.

Pasachoff is on the Executive Committee of the Forum on Education of the American Physical Society, is Chair of the Astronomy Divison of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is Chair of the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union.


Table of Contents

(This is the contents for Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics. The Standard Edition ends at Chapter 39.)

1. Doing Physics.

I. MECHANICS.

2. Motion in a Straight Line.
3. The Vector Description of Motion.
4. Motion in More Than One Direction.
5. Force and Motion.
6. Using Newton's Laws.
7. Work, Energy and Power.
8. Conservation of Energy.
9. Gravitation.
10. Systems of Particles.
11. Collisions.
12. Rotational Motion.
13. Rotational Vectors and Angular Momentum.
14. Static Equilibrium.

II. OSCILLATIONS, WAVES AND FLUIDS.

15. Oscillatory Motion.
16. Wave Motion.
17. Sound and other Wave Phenomena.
18. Fluid Motion.

III. THERMODYNAMICS.

19. Temperature and Heat.
20. The Thermal Behavior of Matter.
21. Heat, Work, and the First Law of Thermodynamics.
22. The Second Law of Thermodynamics.

IV. ELECTROMAGNETISM.

23. Electric Charge, Force and Field.
24. Gauss's Law.
25. Electric Potential.
26. Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors.
27. Electric Current.
28. Electric Circuits.
29. The Magnetic Field.
30. Sources of the Magnetic Field.
31. Electromagnetic Induction.
32. Inductance and Magnetic Energy.
33. Alternating-Current Circuits.
34. Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves.

V. OPTICS.

35. Reflection and Refraction.
36. Image Formation and Optical Instruments.
37. Interference and Diffraction.

VI. MODERN PHYSICS.

38. Relativity.
39. Light and Matter: Waves or Particles?
40. Quantum Mechanics.
41. Atomic Physics.
42. Molecular and Solid-State Physics.
43. Nuclear Physics.
44. Nuclear Energy: Fission and Fusion.
45. From Quarks to the Cosmos.
Appendices.

Additional information

GOR008350041
9780321035714
0321035712
Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Richard Wolfson
Richard Wolfson
Used - Good
Hardback
Pearson Education (US)
19990101
1073
N/A
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