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Physics for Scientists and Engineers

Sixth Edition ©2008 Paul A. Tipler; Gene Mosca

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 probl...
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Paul A. Tipler; Gene Mosca - Sixth Edition, 2008 from Macmillan Student Store

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

Features

PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGY
The Sixth Edition features a new problem-solving strategy in which Examples follow a consistent Picture, Solve, and Check format. This format walks students through the steps involved in analyzing the problem, solving the problem, and then checking their answers. Examples often include helpful Taking It Further sections which present alternative ways of solving problems, interesting facts, or additional information regarding the concepts presented. Where appropriate,
Examples are followed by Practice Problems so students can assess their mastery of the concepts.

In this edition, the problem-solving steps are again juxtaposed with the necessary equations so that it’s easier for students to see a problem unfold. A boxed Problem-Solving Strategy is included in almost every chapter to reinforce the Picture, Solve, and Check format for successfully solving problems.

INTEGRATED MATH TUTORIAL
This edition has improved mathematical support for students who are taking calculus concurrently with introductory physics or for students who need a math review. The comprehensive Math Tutorial:
• reviews basic results of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus,
• links mathematical concepts to physics concepts in the text,
• provides Examples and Practice Problems so students may check their understanding of mathematical concepts.

PEDAGOGY TO ENSURE CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING
Student-friendly tools have been added to allowfor better conceptual understanding of physics.
• New Conceptual Examples are introduced, where appropriate, to help students fully understand essential physics concepts. These Examples use the Picture, Solve, and Check strategy so that students not only gain fundamental conceptual understanding but must evaluate their answers. In addition, margin notes allow students to easily see the links between physics concepts in the text and math concepts.
• New Concept Checks enable students to check their conceptual understanding of physics concepts while they read chapters. Answers are located at the end of chapters to provide immediate feedback. Concept Checks are placed near relevant topics so students can immediately reread any material that they do not fully understand.
• Physics Spotlights at the end of appropriate chapters discuss current applications of physics and connect applications to concepts described in chapters. These topics range from wind farms to molecular thermometers to pulse detonation engines.
• New Pitfall Statements, identified by exclamation points, help students avoid common misconceptions. These statements are placed near the topics that commonly cause confusion, so that students can immediately address any difficulties.

New to This Edition

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Table of Contents

  1. Measurement and Vectors

PART I MECHANICS
  2. Motion in One Dimension
  3. Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
  4. Newton’s Laws
  5. Additional Applications of Newton’s Laws
  6. Work and Kinetic Energy
  7. Conservation of Energy
  8. Conservation of Linear Momentum
  9. Rotation
10 Angular Momentum
R Special Relativity
11. 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. Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Waves

PART V LIGHT
31. Properties of Light
32. Optical Images
33. Interference and Diffraction

<in the extended version>
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

Appendices
A. 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

Paul A. Tipler

Paul Tipler was born in the small farming town of Antigo, Wisconsin, in 1933. He graduated from high school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where his father was superintendent of the public schools. He received his B.S. from Purdue University in 1955 and his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1962, where he studied the structure of nuclei. He taught for one year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut while writing his thesis, then moved to Oakland University in Michigan, where he was one of the original members of the physics department, playing a major role in developing the physics curriculum. During the next 20 years, he taught nearly all the physics courses and wrote the first and second editions of his widely used textbooks Modern Physics (1969, 1978) and Physics (1976, 1982). In 1982, he moved to Berkeley, California, where he now resides, and where he wrote College Physics (1987) and the third edition of Physics (1991). In addition to physics, his interests include music, hiking, and camping, and he is an accomplished jazz pianist and poker player.

Gene Mosca

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