Physics for Scientists and Engineers : A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics
ISBN: 9780805327366 | 0805327363
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 10/4/2007
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As the most widely adopted new physics text in more than 50 years, Knights Physics for Scientists and Engineers was published to widespread critical acclaim from professors and students. In this eagerly awaited second edition, Knight builds on the research-proven instructional techniques he introduced, as well as national data of student performance, to take student learning even further. Knights unparalleled insight into student learning difficulties, and his impeccably skillful crafting of text and figures at every level from macro to micro t... MORE
| Newton's Laws | |
| Concepts of Motion | |
| Kinematics in One Dimension | |
| Vectors and Coordinate Systems | |
| Kinematics in Two Dimensions | |
| Force and Motion | |
| Dynamics I: Motion Along a Line | |
| Dynamics II: Interacting Objects | |
| Dynamics III: Motion in a Plane | |
| Conservation Laws | |
| Impulse and Momentum | ... MORE|
| Energy | |
| Work | |
| Applications of Newtonian Mechanics | |
| Rotation of a Rigid Body | |
| Newton's Theory of Gravity | |
| Oscillations | |
| Fluids and Elasticity | |
| Thermodynamics | |
| A Macroscopic Description of Matter | |
| Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics | |
| The Micro/Macro Connection | |
| Heat Engines and Refrigerators | |
| Waves and Optics | |
| Traveling Waves | |
| Superposition | |
| Wave Optics | |
| Ray Optics | |
| Optical Instruments | |
| Modern Optics and Matter Waves | |
| Electricity and Magnetism | |
| Electric Charges and Forces | |
| The Electric Field | |
| Gauss's Law | |
| The Electric Potential | |
| Potential and Field | |
| Current and Conductivity | |
| Fundamentals of Circuits | |
| The Magnetic Field | |
| Electromagnetic Induction | |
| Electromagnetic Fields and Waves | |
| AC Circuits | |
| Relativity and Quantum Physics | |
| Relativity | |
| The End of Classical Physics | |
| Quantization | |
| Wave Functions and Probabilities | |
| One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics | |
| Atomic Physics | |
| Nuclear Physics | |
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Randy Knight has taught introductory physics for 25 years at Ohio State University and California Polytechnic University, where he is currently Professor of Physics and Director of the Minor in Environmental Studies. Randy 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, under the mentorship of Professor Leonard Jossem, 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. Randy’s research interests are in the field of lasers and spectroscopy. When he’s not in the classroom or in front of a computer, you can find Randy hiking, sea kayaking, playing the piano, or spending time with his wife Sally and their seven cats.
