College Physics

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Philip W. Adams is a Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers University in 1986 and then held a postdoctoral research position at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ for two years. He joined the faculty of LSU 1988 and has since become an internationally recognized low temperature experimentalist and has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has given many invited presentations on his work at international workshops and conferences on superconductivity and other topics in low temperature condensed matter physics.

Dr. Adams has had a career-long interest in physics education. He has taught introductory physics for engineers and for non-engineers many times in his 30-year tenure at LSU and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards.

IN MEMORIAM: HUGH YOUNG (1930–2013)

Hugh D. Young was Emeritus Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. He also had two visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Young’s career was centered entirely on undergraduate education. He wrote several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a coauthor with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky of their well-known introductory texts University Physics and College Physics.

Dr. Young earned a bachelor’s degree in organ performance from Carnegie Mellon in 1972 and spent several years as Associate Organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh. We at Pearson appreciated his professionalism, good nature, and collaboration. He will be missed.

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Help students see the connections between problem types and understand how to solve them

For more than five decades, Sears and Zemansky’s College Physics has provided the most reliable foundation of physics education for students around the world. With the 11th Edition, author Phil Adams incorporates data from thousands of surveyed students detailing their use and reliance on worked examples, video tutorials, and need for just-in-time remediation when working homework problems and preparing for exams.

Driven by how students actually use the text and media today to prepare for their exams, the new edition adds worked examples and new Example Variation Problems in each chapter to help students see patterns and make connections between problem types. They learn to recognize when to use similar steps in solving the same problem type and develop an understanding for problem solving approaches, rather than simply plugging in an equation.

The expanded problem types and scaffolded in-problem support help students develop greater confidence in solving problems, deepen conceptual understanding, and strengthen quantitative-reasoning skills for better exam performance. All new problems sets are available in Mastering Physics with wrong answer specific feedback along with a wealth of new wrong answer feedback, hints, and eTexts links with 20% of end of chapter problems.

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Help students see the connections between problem types and understand how to solve them

For more than five decades, Sears and Zemansky’s College Physics has provided the most reliable foundation of physics education for students around the world. With the 11th Edition, author Phil Adams incorporates data from thousands of surveyed students detailing their use and reliance on worked examples, video tutorials, and need for just-in-time remediation when working homework problems and preparing for exams.

 

Driven by how students actually use the text and media today to prepare for their exams, the new edition adds worked examples and new Example Variation Problems in each chapter to help students see patterns and make connections between problem types. They learn to recognize when to use similar steps in solving the same problem type and develop an understanding for problem solving approaches, rather than simply plugging in an equation.

 

The expanded problem types and scaffolded in-problem support help students develop greater confidence in solving problems, deepen conceptual understanding, and strengthen quantitative-reasoning skills for better exam performance.  All new problems sets are available in Mastering Physics with wrong answer specific feedback along with a wealth of new wrong answer feedback, hints, and eTexts links to all end-of-chapter problems.

 

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Mastering™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. Now providing a fully integrated experience, the eText is linked to all end-of-chapter problems within Mastering for seamless integration between homework problems, practice problems, textbook, worked examples, and more. Learn more about Mastering Physics.

Hallmark features of this title

Conceptual understanding

• Key equations include bulleted Notes that guide students through the math and help them relate quantitative expressions to qualitative concepts.
• Bridging problems at the end of the chapter help students move from single concept worked examples to multi-concept problems.
• Conceptual Analysis (CA) and Quantitative Analysis (QA) problems provide practice in qualitative and quantitative understanding. QA problems focus on quantitative and proportional reasoning skills needed on the MCAT exam.

Problem-solving skills

• MCAT-style Passage Problems follow the format used in the MCAT exam and require students to investigate multiple aspects of a real-life physical situation, typically biological in nature, as described in a reading passage.

• 0 Mathematics Review

MECHANICS

1. Models, Measurements, and Vectors
2. Motion Along a Straight Line
3. Motion in a Plane
4. Newton’s Laws of Motion
5. Applications of Newton’s Laws
6. Circular Motion and Gravitation
7. Work and Energy
8. Momentum
9. Rotational Motion
10. Dynamics of Rotational Motion

PERIODIC MOTION, WAVES, AND FLUIDS

11. Elasticity and Periodic Motion
12. Mechanical Waves and Sound
13. Fluid Mechanics

THERMODYNAMICS

14. Temperature and Heat
15. Thermal Properties of Matter
16. The Second Law of Thermodynamics

ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

17. Electric Charge and Electric Field
18. Electric Potential and Capacitance
19. Current, Resistance, and Direct-Current Circuits
20. Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces
21. Electromagnetic Induction
22. Alternating Current
23. Electromagnetic Waves

LIGHT AND OPTICS

24. Geometric Optics
25. Optical Instruments
26. Interference and Diffraction

MODERN PHYSICS

27. Relativity
28. Photons, Electrons, and Atoms
29. Atoms, Molecules, and Solids
30. Nulear and High-Energy Physics

APPENDICES

• A. The International System of Units
• B. The Greek Alphabet
• C. Periodic Table of the Elements
• D. Unit Conversion Factors
• E. Numerical Constants
• Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems

New and updated features of this title

Problem-solving skills

• Example Variation Problems build in difficulty by adjusting scenarios, changing the knowns vs. unknowns, and adding complexity to provide a range of related problems that use the same fundamental approach to solve.
• Test your understanding problems are added strategically throughout the chapters helping students to the important step of ensuring that their answer makes sense in the real world.
• NEW & REVISED: Worked examples follow a consistent and explicit global problem-solving strategy drawn from educational research, guiding students to set up a problem and lay necessary groundwork before solving or hunting for an equation to plug in.

End-of-Chapter questions

• Estimation problems engage students as they explore the problem scenario and estimate some of the data based on real-world experience, reasoning, assumptions and/or modeling.
• Cumulative problems promote more advanced problem-solving techniques, requiring students to integrate knowledge and skills from previous chapters with understanding and skills from the current chapter.
• Applications highlight interesting examples of real-world physics in science, technology, and everyday life. More than 60 of these real-world applications are from biology and medicine.