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9780471940005

Introductory Physics: Building Understanding, Version 1.1

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471940005

  • ISBN10:

    0471940003

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-01
  • Publisher: Wiley

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Summary

* Active learning exercises integrated throughout: Case Studies, Stop & Think, On-the-Spot Activities, etc. * Numerous worked-out examples, many of which have expanded, interactive web versions in which students may participate. * Emphasis on conceptual understanding as the key to quantitative problem solving. * Careful attention to use of language, story line, visual imagery, and active reflection as means to student understanding. * Text supported by extensive author-developed web-based interactive exercises. * WileyPLUS * Student-friendly illustrations and design. * End-of-chapter problem sets that evaluate both qualitative and quantitative understanding.

Table of Contents

Section I: MECHANICS
Chapter 1. Physics, Mathematics, and the Real World
Chapter 2. Describing Motion in One Dimension
Chapter 3. Constructing Two-Dimensional Motion from One-Dimensional Motions
Chapter 4. Interactions and Newton's Laws of Motion
Chapter 5. Behavior of Objects Subjected to Multiple Forces
Chapter 6. Keeping Book on Physical Systems: The Concept of Energy
Chapter 7. More Bookkeeping: The Concept of Momentum
Chapter 8. Circular Motion and Central Forces
Section II: Physics of EXTENDED RIGID OBJECTS AND FLUIDS
Chapter 9. Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics and the Power of Analogy
Chapter 10. Fluids
Chapter 11. Thermal properties of Matter
Chapter 12. Entropy, Thermodynamics, and the Kinetic Theory of Gases
Section III: VIBRATIONS AND WAVE PHENOMENA
Chapter 13. Periodic Motion and Simple Harmonic Oscillators
Chapter 14. Waves and Sound
Chapter 15. Wave Optics
Chapter 16. The Geometry of Wave Paths and Image Formation (Geometric Optics)
Chapter 17. Lenses and Optical Instruments
Section IV: ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
Chapter 18. Electrical Phenomena: Forces, Charges, Currents
Chapter 19. Electric Field and Electric Potential: Extending the Conceptual Framework
Chapter 20. Quantitative Treatment of Current and Circuit Elements
Chapter 21. Direct Currents and Circuit Reasoning
Chapter 22. Magnetism and Magnetic Fields
Chapter 23. Electromagnetic Induction
Section V: PHYSICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Chapter 24. As the Twentieth Century Opens: The Unanswered Questions
Chapter 25. Relativity
Chapter 26. Inroads into the Micro-Universe of Atoms
Chapter 27. The Concept of Quantization
Chapter 28. The Nucleus and Energy Technologies

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