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Physics

ISBN10: 1260486915 | ISBN13: 9781260486919

Physics
ISBN10: 1260486915
ISBN13: 9781260486919
By Alan Giambattista

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This Physics textbook presents the basic concepts of physics that students need to know for later courses and future careers. This algebra-based text helps students learn that physics is a tool for understanding the real world, and to teach transferable problem-solving skills, that students can use throughout their entire lives. Some of the most important enhancements in this edition include: inclusion of math topic reviews, new/updated MCAT exam coverage added and on online, review and synthesis problems added, new biomedical applications, lists of biomedical applications at the beginning of each chapter, new ranking tasks, checkpoints, and collaborative problems. Connections have also been enhanced to help students see the bigger picture.

Online Labs for Physics:

Online Labs for Physics is a fully-online lab experience that can be used as an online lab replacement, preparation, supplement or make-up lab to bridge the gap between lab and lecture. These 24 simulations help a student learn the practical and conceptual skills needed, then check for understanding and provide feedback. With pre-lab and post-lab assessment available and editable, instructors can customize each assignment within Connect.

1) Introduction

Part One - Mechanics

2) Motion Along a Line

3) Motion in a Plane

4) Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion

5) Circular Motion

6) Conservation of Energy

7) Linear Momentum

8) Torque and Angular Momentum

9) Fluids

10) Elasticity and Oscillations

11) Waves

12) Sound

Part Two - Thermal Physics

13) Temperature and the Ideal Gas

14) Heat

15) Thermodynamics

Part Three - Electromagnetism

16) Electric Forces and Fields

17) Electric Potential

18) Electric Current and Circuits

19) Magnetic Forces and Fields

20) Electromagnetic Induction

21) Alternating Current

Part Four - Electromagnetic Waves and Optics

22) Electromagnetic Waves

23) Reflection and Refraction of Light

24) Optical Instruments

25) Interference and Diffraction

Part Five - Quantum and Particle Physics

26) Relativity

27) Early Quantum Physics and the Photon

28) Quantum Physics

29) Nuclear Physics

30) Particle Physics

Appendices

Appendix A - Mathematics Review

Appendix B - Reference Information

Answers to Selected Questions and Problems

About the Author

Alan Giambattista

Alan Giambattista hails from northern New Jersey. His teaching career got an early start when his fourth-grade teacher, Anne Berry, handed the class over to him to teach a few lessons about atoms and molecules. At Brigham Young University, he studied piano performance and physics. After graduate work at Cornell University, he joined the physics faculty and has taught introductory physics there for nearly three decades.

 

Alan still appears in concert regularly as a pianist and harpsichordist. When the long upstate New York winter is finally over, he is eager to get out on Cayuga Lake’s waves of blue for Sunday sailboat races. Alan met his wife Marion in a singing group and they have been making beautiful music together ever since. They live in an 1824 parsonage built for an abolitionist minister, which is now surrounded by an organic dairy farm. Besides taking care of the house, cats, and gardens, they love to travel together, especially to Italy. They also love to spoil their adorable grandchildren, Ivy and Leo.

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