Fundamentals of Physics, 10th Edition

by Halliday

• ISBN13: 9781118230718
• ISBN10: 111823071X
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-07
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The 10^th edition of Halliday, Resnick and Walkers  Fundamentals of Physics provides the perfect solution  for teaching a 2 or 3 semester calculus-based physics course, providing  instructors with a tool by which they can teach students how to  effectively read scientific material, identify fundamental  concepts, reason through scientific questions, and solve  quantitative problems. The 10th edition builds upon previous editions by offering new features designed to better engage students and support critical thinking. These include NEW Video Illustrations that bring the subject matter to life, NEW Vector Drawing Questions that test students conceptual understanding, and additional multimedia resources (videos and  animations) that provide an alternative pathway through the  material for those who struggle with reading scientific  exposition. 

WileyPLUS sold separately from text.

Author Biography

David Halliday is associated with the University of Pittsburgh as Professor Emeritus. As department chair in 1960, he and Robert Resnick collaborated on Physics for Students of Science and Engineering and then on Fundamentals of Physics. Fundamentals is currently in its eighth edition and has since been handed over from Halliday and Resnick to Jearl Walker. Dr. Halliday is retired and resides in Seattle.

Robert Resnick is professor emeritus at Rensselaer and the former Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Science Education, 1974-93. Together with his co-author David Halliday, he revolutionized physics education with their now famous textbook on general physics, still one of the most highly regarded texts in the field today.

Jearl Walker, professor of physics at Cleveland State University, received his BS in physics from MIT in 1967 and his PhD in physics from University of Maryland in 1973. His book The Flying Circus of Physics was published 30 years ago, has been translated into at least 10 languages, and is still being sold world wide. For 16 years he toured his Flying Circus talk throughout the U.S. and Canada, introducing such physics stunts as the bed-of-nails demonstration and the walking-on-hot-coals demonstration to countless physics teachers, who then proceeded to hurt themselves when they repeated the stunts in their own classrooms. These talks led to his PBS television show Kinetic Karnival which ran nationally for years and which earned an Emmy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Measurement

Chapter 2 Motion Along a Straight Line

Chapter 3 Vector

Chapter 4 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions

Chapter 5 Force and Motion I

Chapter 6 Force and Motion II

Chapter 7 Kinetic Energy and Work

Chapter 8 Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy

Chapter 9 Center of Mass and Linear Momentum

Chapter 10 Rotation

Chapter 11 Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum

Chapter 12 Equilibrium and Elasticity

Chapter 13 Gravitation

Chapter 14 Fluids

Chapter 15 Oscillations

Chapter 16 Waves I

Chapter 17 Waves II

Chapter 18 Temperature, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

Chapter 19 The Kinetic Theory of Gases

Chapter 20 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Chapter 21 Electric Charge

Chapter 22 Electric Fields

Chapter 23 Gauss' Law

Chapter 24 Electric Potential

Chapter 25 Capacitance

Chapter 26 Current and Resistance

Chapter 27 Circuits

Chapter 28 Magnetic Fields

Chapter 29 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents

Chapter 30 Induction and Inductance

Chapter 31 Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

Chapter 32 Maxwell's Equations; Magnetism of Matter

Chapter 33 Electromagnetic Waves

Chapter 34 Images

Chapter 35 Interference

Chapter 36 Diffraction

Chapter 37 Relativity

Chapter 38 Photons and Matter Waves

Chapter 39 More About Matter Waves

Chapter 40 All About Atoms

Chapter 41 Conduction of Electricity in Solids

Chapter 42 Nuclear Physics

Chapter 43 Energy from the Nucleus

Chapter 44 Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang