Table of Contents

Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics: (Chapters 1-42)

• Part 1: 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
• Newton's Third Law
• Dynamics II: Motion in a Plane
• Part 2: Conservation Laws
• Work and Kinetic Energy
• Interactions and Potential Energy
• Impulse and Momentum
• Part 3: Applications of Newtonian Mechanics
• Rotation of a Rigid Body
• Newton's Theory of Gravity
• Fluids and Elasticity
• Part 4: Oscillations and Waves
• Oscillations
• Traveling Waves
• Superposition
• Part 5: Thermodynamics
• A Macroscopic Description of Matter
• Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
• The Micro/Macro Connection
• Heat Engines and Refrigerators
• Part 6: Electricity and Magnetism
• Electric Charges and Forces
• The Electric Field
• Gauss's Law
• The Electric Potential
• Potential and Field
• Current and Resistance
• Fundamentals of Circuits
• The Magnetic Field
• Electromagnetic Induction
• Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
• AC Circuits
• Part 7: Optics
• Wave Optics
• Ray Optics
• Optical Instruments
• Part 8: Relativity and Quantum Physics
• Relativity
• The Foundations of Modern Physics
• Quantization
• Wave Functions and Uncertainty
• One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics
• Atomic Physics
• Nuclear Physics
• Appendix A Mathematics Review
• Appendix B Periodic Table of Elements
• Appendix C Atomic and Nuclear Data
• Answers to Stop to Think Questions and Odd-Numbered Exercises and Problems

About the Author

Randy Knight taught introductory physics for thirty-two years at Ohio State University and California Polytechnic State University, where he is Professor Emeritus of Physics. Professor Knight received a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before joining the faculty at Ohio State University. A growing awareness of the importance of research in physics education led first to Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach and later College Physics: A Strategic Approach. Professor Knight's research interests are in the fields of laser spectroscopy and environmental science.