Physics for Scientists and Engineers A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics 4th

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.