Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics

✍ Scribed by Randall D. Knight

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1326
• Edition: 4th Global
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For courses in introductory calculus-based physics.

A research-driven approach, fine-tuned for even greater ease-of-use and student success.

For the Fourth Edition ofPhysics for Scientists and Engineers, Knight continues to build on strong research-based foundations with fine-tuned and streamlined content, hallmark features, and an even more robust MasteringPhysics program, taking student learning to a new level. By extending problem-solving guidance to include a greater emphasis on modeling and significantly revised and more challenging problem sets, students gain confidence and skills in problem solving. A modified Table of Contents and the addition of advanced topics now accommodate different teaching preferences and course structures.

✦ Table of Contents

I. Newton’s Laws
1. Concepts of Motion
2. Kinematics in One Dimension
3. Vectors and Coordinate Systems
4. Kinematics in Two Dimensions
5. Force and Motion
6. Dynamics I: Motion Along a Line
7. Newton’s Third Law
8. Dynamics II: Motion in a Plane

II. Conservation Laws
9. Work and Kinetic Energy
10. Interactions and Potential Energy
11. Impulse and Momentum

III. Applications of Newtonian Mechanics
12. Rotation of a Rigid Body
13. Newton’s Theory of Gravity
14. Fluids and Elasticity

IV. Oscillations and Waves
15. Oscillations
16. Traveling Waves
17. Superposition

V. Thermodynamics
18. A Macroscopic Description of Matter
19. Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
20. The Micro/Macro Connection
21. Heat Engines and Refrigerators

VI. Electricity and Magnetism
22. Electric Charges and Forces
23. The Electric Field
24. Gauss’s Law
25. The Electric Potential
26. Potential and Field
27. Current and Resistance
28. Fundamentals of Circuits
29. The Magnetic Field
30. Electromagnetic Induction
31. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
32. AC Circuits

VII. Optics
33. Wave Optics
34. Ray Optics
35. Optical Instruments

VIII. Relativity and Quantum Physics
36. Relativity
37. The Foundations of Modern Physics
38. Quantization
39. Wave Functions and Uncertainty
40. One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics
41. Atomic Physics
42. Nuclear Physics