Physics for Scientists and Engineers A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics

Name: Physics for Scientists and Engineers A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics
Price: 5.02 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780805327366

ISBN-10: 0805327363

ISBN-13: 9780805327366

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Randall Dewey Knight

List price: $245.20

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

5 new & used from $5.02

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

As the most widely adopted new physics text in more than 50 years, Knights 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. Knights 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…

Book details

List price: $245.20
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Publication date: 10/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1464
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 6.446
Language: English




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