University Physics with Modern Physics - With Mastering Physics

University Physics with Modern Physics, Twelfth Edition continues an unmatched history of innovation and careful execution that was established by the bestselling Eleventh Edition. Assimilating the best ideas from education research, this new edition provides enhanced problem-solving instruction, pioneering visual and conceptual pedagogy, the first systematically enhanced problems, and the most pedagogically proven and widely used homework and tutorial system available. Using Young & Freedman's research-based ISEE (Identify, Set Up, Execute, Evaluate) problem-solving strategy, students develop the physical intuition and problem-solving skills required to tackle the text's extensive high-quality problem sets, which have been developed and refined over the past five decades. Incorporating proven techniques from educational research that have been shown to improve student learning, the figures have been streamlined in color and detail to focus on the key physics and integrate 'chalkboard-style' guiding commentary. Critically acclaimed 'visual' chapter summaries help students to consolidate their understanding by presenting each concept in words, math, and figures. Renowned for its superior problems, the Twelfth Edition goes further. Unprecedented analysis of national student metadata has allowed every problem to be systematically enhanced for educational effectiveness, and to ensure problem sets of ideal topic coverage, balance of qualitative and quantitative problems, and range of difficulty and duration. If a professor adopts MasteringPhysicsTM, every new copy of the text includes access to it -- the most widely used, educationally proven, and technically advanced tutorial and homework system in the world. Uniquely able to tutor each student individually with feedback specific to their errors and simpler subproblems upon demand, MasteringPhysicsa now incorporates free-hand graphs, free-body diagrams, ray-tracing diagrams, even ranking-task activities. Mastering Physics provides all the problems from the text as well as tutorials specific to the Problem-Solving Strategies and Test Your Understanding questions in each chapter.

List of contents

MECHANICS
1.  Units, Physical Quantities, and Vectors
2.  Motion Along a Straight Line
3.  Motion in Two or Three Dimensions
4.  Newton’s Laws of Motion
5.  Applying Newton’s Laws
6.  Work and Kinetic Energy
7.  Potential Energy and Energy Conservation
8.  Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions
9.  Rotation of Rigid Bodies
10.  Dynamics of Rotational Motion
11.  Equilibrium and Elasticity
12.  Fluid Mechanics
13.  Gravitation
14.  Periodic Motion
 
WAVES/ACOUSTICS
15.  Mechanical Waves
16.  Sound and Hearing
 
THERMODYNAMICS
17.  Temperature and Heat
18.  Thermal Properties of Matter
19.  The First Law of Thermodynamics
20.  The Second Law of Thermodynamics
 
ELECTROMAGNETISM
21.  Electric Charge and Electric Field
22.  Gauss’s Law
23.  Electric Potential
24.  Capacitance and Dielectrics
25.  Current, Resistance, and Electromotive Force
26.  Direct-Current Circuits
27.  Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces
28.  Sources of Magnetic Field
29.  Electromagnetic Induction
30.  Inductance
31.  Alternating Current
32.  Electromagnetic Waves
 
OPTICS
33.  The Nature and Propagation of Light
34.  Geometric Optics and Optical Instruments
35.  Interference
36.  Diffraction
 
MODERN PHYSICS
37.  Relativity
38.  Photons: Light Waves Behaving as Particles
39.  Particles Behaving as Waves
40.  Quantum Mechanics
41.  Atomic Structure
42.  Molecules and Condensed Matter
43.  Nuclear Physics
44.  Particle Physics and Cosmology

About the author

Roger A. Freedman, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Summary

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University Physics with Modern Physics, Technology Update, Thirteenth Edition continues to set the benchmark for clarity and rigor combined with effective teaching and research-based innovation.   
 
The Thirteenth Edition Technology Update contains QR codes throughout the textbook, enabling students to use their smartphone or tablet to instantly watch interactive videos about relevant demonstrations or problem-solving strategies.
University Physics is known for its uniquely broad, deep, and thoughtful set of worked examples–key tools for developing both physical understanding and problem-solving skills. The Thirteenth Edition revises all the Examples and Problem-solving Strategies to be more concise and direct while maintaining the Twelfth Edition's consistent, structured approach and strong focus on modeling as well as math. To help students tackle challenging as well as routine problems, the Thirteenth Edition adds Bridging Problems to each chapter, which pose a difficult, multiconcept problem and provide a skeleton solution guide in the form of questions and hints.
 
The text's rich problem sets—developed and refined over six decades—are upgraded to include larger numbers of problems that are biomedically oriented or require calculus. The problem-set revision is driven by detailed student-performance data gathered nationally through MasteringPhysics^®, making it possible to fine-tune the reliability, effectiveness, and difficulty of individual problems.
 
Complementing the clear and accessible text, the figures use a simple graphic style that focuses on the physics. They also incorporate explanatory annotations—a technique demonstrated to enhance learning.
 

Product details

• Authors: A. Lewis Ford, Roger A. Freedman, Hugh D. Young
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman, Amsterdam
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9781292020631
• ISBN: 978-1-292-02063-1
• No. of pages: 1551
• Weight: 3185 g
• Illustrations: w. col. ill.
• Series: Pearson; Pearson
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries