Synopses & Reviews
The Sixth Edition of
Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media solution that will help students learn most effectively and will enable professors to customize their classrooms so that they teach most efficiently. The text includes a new strategic problem-solving approach, an integrated Math Tutorial, and new tools to improve conceptual understanding. To simplify the review and use of the text,
Physics for Scientists and Engineers is available in these versions:
Volume 1 Mechanics/Oscillations and Waves/Thermodynamics (Chapters 1-20, R) 1-4292-0132-0
Volume 2 Electricity and Magnetism/Light (Chapters 21-33) 1-4292-0133-9
Volume 3 Elementary Modern Physics (Chapters 34-41) 1-4292-0134-7
Standard Version (Chapters 1-33, R) 1-4292-0124-X
Extended Version (Chapters 1-41, R) 0-7167-8964-7
Synopsis
Available as a completely integrated text and media solution, Physics for Scientists and Engineers takes on a strategic problem-solving approach, integrated with Math Tutorial and other tools to improve conceptual understanding.
Table of Contents
1. Measurement and Vectors
PART I MECHANICS
2. Motion in One Dimension 3. Motion in Two and Three Dimensions 4. Newtons Laws 5. Additional Applications of Newtons Laws 6. Work and Kinetic Energy 7. Conservation of Energy 8. Conservation of Linear Momentum 9. Rotation 10 Angular Momentum
R Special Relativity11. Gravity
12. Static Equilibrium and Elasticity
13. Fluids
PART II OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES
14. Oscillations
15. Traveling Waves 16. Superposition and Standing Waves
PART III THERMODYNAMICS
17. Temperature and Kinetic Theory of Gases
18. Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
19. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
20. Thermal Properties and Processes PART IV ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
21. The Electric Field I: Discrete Charge Distributions
22. The Electric Field II: Continuous Charge Distributions
23. Electric Potential
24. Capacitance
25. Electric Current and Direct-Current Circuits
26. The Magnetic Field
27. Sources of the Magnetic Field
28. Magnetic Induction
29. Alternating-Current Circuits
30. Maxwells Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
PART V LIGHT
31. Properties of Light
32. Optical Images
33. Interference and Diffraction
PART VI MODERN PHYSICS: QUANTUM MECHANICS, RELATIVITY, AND THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER
34. Wave-Particle Duality and Quantum Physics
35. Applications of the Schršdinger Equation
36. Atoms
37. Molecules
38. Solids
39. Relativity
40. Nuclear Physics
41. Elementary Particles and the Beginning of the Universe
AppendicesA. SI Units and Conversion Factors / AP-1
B. Numerical Data / AP-3
C. Periodic Table of Elements / AP-6
Math Tutorial / M-1
Answers to Odd-Numbered End-of-Chapter Problems / A-1
Index / I-1