Physics for Scientists and Engineers A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics 4th Edition By Randall D. Knight
Print ISBN: 9780133942651, 0133942651
eText ISBN: 9780134080901, 0134080904
By: Randall D. Knight (Professor Emeritus)
Publisher: Pearson
Print ISBN: 9780133942651, 0133942651
eText ISBN: 9780134080901, 0134080904
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2017
What’s New to This Edition
For this fourth edition, we continue to apply the best results
from educational research and to tailor them for this course and
its students. At the same time, the extensive feedback we’ve
received from both instructors and students has led to many
changes and improvements to the text, the figures, and the
end-of-chapter problems. These include:
■ Chapter ordering changes allow instructors to more easily
organize content as needed to accommodate labs, schedules,
and different teaching styles. Work and energy are now
covered before momentum, oscillations are grouped with
mechanical waves, and optics appears after electricity and
magnetism.
■ Addition of advanced topics as optional sections further
expands instructors’ options. Topics include rocket propulsion,
gyroscopes, the wave equation (for mechanical and
electromagnetic waves), the speed of sound in gases, and
more details on the interference of light.
■ Model boxes enhance the text’s emphasis on modeling—
analyzing a complex, real-world situation in terms of simple
but reasonable idealizations that can be applied over and
over in solving problems. These fundamental simplificationsare developed in the text and then deployed more explicitly
in the worked examples, helping students to recognize when
and how to use recurring models.
■ Enhanced chapter previews have been redesigned, with
student input, to address the questions students are most
likely to ask themselves while studying the material for the
first time. The previews provide a big-picture overview of
the chapter’s key principles.
■ Looking Back pointers enable students to look back at a
previous chapter when it’s important to review concepts.
Pointers provide the specific section to consult at the exact
point in the text where they need to use this material.
■ Focused Part Overviews and Knowledge Structures consolidate
understanding of groups of chapters and give a tighter
structure to the book as a whole. Reworked Knowledge Structures
provide more targeted detail on overarching themes.
■ Updated visual program that has been enhanced by revising
over 500 pieces of art to increase the focus on key ideas.
■ Significantly revised end-of-chapter problem sets include
more challenging problems to expand the range of
physics and math skills students will use to solve problems.
A new icon for calculus-based problems has been added.
At the front of this book, you’ll find an illustrated walkthrough
of the new pedagogical features in this fourth edition.
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