Physics for Scientists and Engineers

by Wolfson, Richard; Pasachoff, Jay M.

• ISBN13: 9780321035714
• ISBN10: 0321035712
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Addison Wesley

Summary

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 1 & 2.

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.