Physics for Scientists and Engineers (International Edition)

The Sixth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media solution that will help students learn most effectively and will enable professors to customize their classrooms so that they teach most efficiently. The text includes a new strategic problem-solving approach, an integrated Math Tutorial, and new tools to improve conceptual understanding.

The Sixth Edition features a problem-solving strategy in which examples follow a consistent Picture, Solve, and Check format. This format walks students through the steps involved in analyzing the problem, solving the problem, and then checking their answers. Examples often include helpful Taking It Further sections which present alternative ways of solving problems, interesting facts, or additional information regarding the concepts presented. Where appropriate, examples are followed by Practice Problems so students can assess their mastery of the concepts. In this edition, the problem-solving steps are again juxtaposed with the necessary equations so that it's easier for students to see a problem unfold. Conceptual Examples are introduced, where appropriate, to help students fully understand essential physics concepts. These Examples use the Picture, Solve, and Check strategy so that students not only gain fundamental conceptual understanding but must evaluate their answers. In addition, margin notes allow students to easily see the links between physics concepts in the text and math concepts. Concept Checks enable students to check their conceptual understanding of physics concepts while they read chapters. Answers are located at the end of chapters to provide immediate feedback. Concept Checks are placed near relevant topics so students can immediately reread any material that they do not fully understand. Physics Spotlights at the end of appropriate chapters discuss real world applications of physics and connect applications to concepts described in chapters. These topics range from wind farms to molecular thermometers to pulse detonation engines. Pitfall Statements, identified by exclamation points, help students avoid common misconceptions. These statements are placed near the topics that commonly cause confusion, so that students can immediately address any difficulties.

1. Measurement and Vectors PART I MECHANICS 2. Motion in One Dimension 3. Motion in Two and Three Dimensions 4. Newton's Laws 5. Additional Applications of Newton's Laws 6. Work and Kinetic Energy 7. Conservation of Energy 8. Conservation of Linear Momentum 9. Rotation 10 Angular Momentum R Special Relativity 11. Gravity 12. Static Equilibrium and Elasticity 13. Fluids PART II OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES 14. Oscillations 15. Traveling Waves 16. Superposition and Standing Waves PART III THERMODYNAMICS 17. Temperature and Kinetic Theory of Gases 18. Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics 19. The Second Law of Thermodynamics 20. Thermal Properties and Processes PART IV ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM 21. The Electric Field I: Discrete Charge Distributions 22. The Electric Field II: Continuous Charge Distributions 23. Electric Potential 24. Capacitance 25. Electric Current and Direct-Current Circuits 26. The Magnetic Field 27. Sources of the Magnetic Field 28. Magnetic Induction 29. Alternating-Current Circuits 30. Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves PART V LIGHT 31. Properties of Light 32. Optical Images 33. Interference and Diffraction PART VI MODERN PHYSICS: QUANTUM MECHANICS, RELATIVITY, AND THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER 34. Wave-Particle Duality and Quantum Physics 35. Applications of the SchrSdinger Equation 36. Atoms 37. Molecules 38. Solids 39. Relativity 40. Nuclear Physics 41. Elementary Particles and the Beginning of the Universe Appendices A. SI Units and Conversion Factors / AP-1 B. Numerical Data / AP-3 C. Periodic Table of Elements / AP-6 Math Tutorial / M-1 Answers to Odd-Numbered End-of-Chapter Problems / A-1 Index / I-1