Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics

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KEY MESSAGE: As the most widely adopted new physics text in more than 50 years, Knight’s Physics for Scientists and Engineers was published to widespread critical acclaim from professors and students. In this eagerly awaited second edition, Knight builds on the research-proven instructional techniques he introduced, as well as national data of student performance, to take student learning even further.Knight’s unparalleled insight into student learning difficulties, and his impeccably skillful crafting of text and figures at every level – from macro to micro – to address these difficulties, results in a uniquely effective and accessible book, leading students to a deeper and better-connected understanding of the concepts and more proficient problem-solving skills.Building on an NSF-sponsored educational research program and input from tens of thousands of student users, the second edition refines and extends the pedagogical innovations that years of use has now shown to be effective. Unprecedented analysis of national student metadata has allowed every problem to be systematically enhanced for educational effectives, and to ensure problem sets of ideal topic coverage, balance of qualitative and quantitative problems, and range of difficulty and duration. Newton's Laws: Concepts of Motion • Kinematics in One Dimension • Vectors and Coordinate Systems • Kinematics in Two Dimensions • Force and Motion • Dynamics I: Motion Along a Line • Dynamics II: Interacting Objects • Dynamics III: Motion in a Plane Conservation Laws: Impulse and Momentum • Energy • Work Applications of Newtonian Mechanics: Rotation of a Rigid Body • Newton's Theory of Gravity • Oscillations • Fluids and Elasticity Thermodynamics: A Macroscopic Description of Matter • Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics •The Micro/Macro Connection •Heat Engines and Refrigerators Waves and Optics: Traveling Waves •Superposition • Wave Optics • Ray Optics • Optical Instruments • Modern Optics and Matter Waves Electricity and Magnetism: Electric Charges and Forces • The Electric Field • Gauss's Law • The Electric Potential • Potential and Field • Current and Conductivity • Fundamentals of Circuits • The Magnetic Field • Electromagnetic Induction • Electromagnetic Fields and Waves • AC Circuits Relativity and Quantum Physics: Relativity • The End of Classical Physics • Quantization • Wave Functions and Probabilities • One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics • Atomic Physics • Nuclear Physics MARKET:For all readers interested in leading students to a deeper and better-connected understanding of the concepts and more proficient problem-solving skills. Front cover
......Page 1 Preface
......Page 22 About the authors
......Page 32 Brief contents
......Page 8 Detailed contents
......Page 10 1 - Tooling Up
......Page 34 2 - Straight-Line Motion
......Page 61 3 - Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
......Page 93 4 - Newton's Laws
......Page 120 5 - Applications of Newton's Laws
......Page 152 6 - Work and Kinetic Energy
......Page 184 7 - Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
......Page 216 8 - Linear Momentum, Collisions, and the Center of Mass
......Page 242 9 - Rotations of Rigid Bodies
......Page 279 10 - More on Angular Momentum and Torque
......Page 313 11 - Statics
......Page 346 12 - Gravitation
......Page 371 13 - Oscillatory Motion
......Page 399 14 - Waves
......Page 430 15 - Superposition and Interference of Waves
......Page 468 16 - Properties of Fluids
......Page 495 17 - Temperature and Ideal Gases
......Page 524 18 - Heat Flow and the First Law of Thermodynamics
......Page 548 19 - The Molecular Basis of Thermal Physics
......Page 581 20 - The Second Law of Thermodynamics
......Page 606 21 - Electric Charge
......Page 642 22 - Electric Field
......Page 666 23 - Gauss' Law
......Page 694 24 - Electric Potential
......Page 716 25 - Capacitors and Dielectrics
......Page 747 26 - Currents in Materials
......Page 771 27 - Direct-Current Circuits
......Page 799 28 - The Effects of Magnetic Fields
......Page 824 29 - The Production and Properties of Magnetic Fields
......Page 853 30 - Faraday's Law
......Page 880 31 - Magnetism and Matter
......Page 906 32 - Inductance and Circuit Oscillations
......Page 926 33 - Alternating Currents
......Page 950 34 - Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
......Page 976 35 - Light
......Page 1007 36 - Mirrors and Lenses and Their Uses
......Page 1031 37 - Interference
......Page 1062 38 - Diffraction
......Page 1083 39 - Special Relativity
......Page 1106 40 - Quantum Physics
......Page 1145 41 - Atomic and Molecular Structure
......Page 1170 42 - Quantum Effects in Large Systems of Fermions and Bosons
......Page 1195 43 - Quantum Engineering
......Page 1216 44 - Nuclear Physics
......Page 1240 45 - Particles and Cosmology
......Page 1269 Appendix I - Systeme internationale of units (SI)
......Page 1304 Appendix II - Fundamental physical constants
......Page 1305 Appendix III - Other physical quantities
......Page 1306 Appendix IV - Mathematics
......Page 1308 Appendix V - Periodic table of the elements
......Page 1311 Appendix VI - Significant dates in physics
......Page 1312 Answers to What do you think? questions
......Page 1314 Answers to odd-numbered understanding the concepts questions
......Page 1328 Answers to odd-numbered problems
......Page 1334 Index
......Page 1360 Useful constants and tables
......Page 1376