Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Technology Update
By Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett
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As a market leader, PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS is one of the most powerful brands in the physics market. While preserving concise language, state-of-the-art educational pedagogy, and top-notch worked examples, the Ninth Edition Technology Update builds on our existing suite of online assets in Enhanced WebAssign by adding all-new Integrated Tutorials with case studies, PreLecture Explorations, and fully worked-out problem solutions. The Integrated Tutorials emphasize the conceptual thinking necessary to good problem-solving, while the PreLecture Explorations provide additional opportunities to engage students in important concepts prior to lecture. And complete worked out solutions help students better understand problem-solving strategies as applied to specific problems. The Personal Study Plan in Enhanced WebAssign provides chapter and section assessments that show students what material they know and what areas require more work. This text also highlights the Analysis Model approach to problem-solving, including Analysis Model Tutorials written by text co-author John Jewett and available in Enhanced WebAssign. The Analysis Model approach lays out a standard set of situations that appear in most physics problems, and serves as a bridge to help students identify the correct fundamental principle--and then the equation--to utilize in solving that problem. The Ninth Edition of PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS continues to be accompanied by Enhanced WebAssign in the most integrated text-technology offering available today. This briefer, paperbound version does not contain the end-of-chapter problems, which can be assigned in WebAssign, the online homework and learning system for this book. Access to WebAssign and the eBook is included with the Hybrid version. The eBook is the full version of the text, with all end-of-chapter questions and problem sets.
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As a market leader, PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS is one of the most powerful brands in the physics market. While preserving concise language, state-of-the-art educational pedagogy, and top-notch worked examples, the Ninth Edition Technology Update builds on our existing suite of online assets in Enhanced WebAssign by adding all-new Integrated Tutorials with case studies, PreLecture Explorations, and fully worked-out problem solutions. The Integrated Tutorials emphasize the conceptual thinking necessary to good problem-solving, while the PreLecture Explorations provide additional opportunities to engage students in important concepts prior to lecture. And complete worked out solutions help students better understand problem-solving strategies as applied to specific problems. The Personal Study Plan in Enhanced WebAssign provides chapter and section assessments that show students what material they know and what areas require more work. This text also highlights the Analysis Model approach to problem-solving, including Analysis Model Tutorials written by text co-author John Jewett and available in Enhanced WebAssign. The Analysis Model approach lays out a standard set of situations that appear in most physics problems, and serves as a bridge to help students identify the correct fundamental principle--and then the equation--to utilize in solving that problem. The Ninth Edition of PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS continues to be accompanied by Enhanced WebAssign in the most integrated text-technology offering available today. This briefer, paperbound version does not contain the end-of-chapter problems, which can be assigned in WebAssign, the online homework and learning system for this book. Access to WebAssign and the eBook is included with the Hybrid version. The eBook is the full version of the text, with all end-of-chapter questions and problem sets.
BETTER INTEGRATION OF THE ANALYSIS MODEL APPROACH TO PROBLEM-SOLVING The Analysis Model approach lays out a standard set of situations that appear in most physics problems, and serves as a bridge to help students identify the correct fundamental principle--and then the equation--to utilize in solving that problem. To better integrate the Analysis Model approach for this edition, "Analysis Model" boxes appear at the end of any section that introduces an Analysis Model and recap the Analysis Model just introduced, while also providing examples of the types of problems that a student could solve using the Analysis Model. Worked examples in the text that utilize Analysis Models are also designated with an "AM" icon for ease of reference.
ANALYSIS MODEL TUTORIALS These 165 tutorials (indicated in each chapter's problem set with an "AMT" icon) strengthen students' problem-solving skills by guiding them through the steps in the problem-solving process. Important first steps include making predictions and focusing their strategy on physics concepts before they start to solve the problem quantitatively. A critical component of these tutorials is the selection of an appropriate analysis model to describe what is going on in the problem. Analysis Model tutorials include meaningful feedback at each step to help students practice the problem-solving process and improve their skills. Solutions are carried out symbolically as long as possible, with numerical values substituted at the end. Feedback at the end of the tutorial encourages students to think about how the final answer matches their original predictions.
ANNOTATED INSTRUCTOR'S EDITION The Annotated Instructor's Edition provides instructors with teaching tips and other notes on how best to utilize the textbook in the classroom. Additionally, the full slate of icons describing the various types of problems is included in the questions/problems sets (the Student Edition contains only those icons needed by students).
ADDITIONAL MASTER ITS IN ENHANCED WEBASSIGN Approximately 50 additional Master Its were added for the ninth edition.
Table of contents
PART I: MECHANICS.
- 1. Physics and Measurement.
- 2. Motion in One Dimension.
- 3. Vectors.
- 4. Motion in Two Dimensions.
- 5. The Laws of Motion.
- 6. Circular Motion and Other Applications of Newton''s Laws.
- 7. Energy of a System.
- 8. Conservation of Energy.
- 9. Linear Momentum and Collisions.
- 10. Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis.
- 11. Angular Momentum.
- 12. Static Equilibrium and Elasticity.
- 13. Universal Gravitation.
- 14. Fluid Mechanics.
PART II: OSCILLATIONS AND MECHANICAL WAVES.
- 15. Oscillatory Motion.
- 16. Wave Motion.
- 17. Sound Waves.
- 18. Superposition and Standing Waves.
PART III: THERMODYNAMICS.
- 19. Temperature.
- 20. Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics.
- 21. The Kinetic Theory of Gases.
- 22. Heat Engines, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
PART IV: ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM.
- 23. Electric Fields.
- 24. Gauss''s Law.
- 25. Electric Potential.
- 26. Capacitance and Dielectrics.
- 27. Current and Resistance.
- 28. Direct Current Circuits.
- 29. Magnetic Fields.
- 30. Sources of the Magnetic Field.
- 31. Faraday''s Law.
- 32. Inductance.
- 33. Alternating Current Circuits.
- 34. Electromagnetic Waves.
PART V: LIGHT AND OPTICS.
- 35. The Nature of Light and the Laws of Geometric Optics.
- 36. Image Formation.
- 37. Interference of Light Waves.
- 38. Diffraction Patterns and Polarization.
PART VI: MODERN PHYSICS.
- 39. Relativity.
APPENDICES.
- A. Tables.
- B. Mathematics Review.
- C. Periodic Table of the Elements.
- D. SI Units.
- Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems.
- Index.
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