num_pages: 1464
description: KEY MESSAGE : 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 the concepts and more proficient problem-solving skills. Building on an NSF-sponsored educational research program and input from tens of thousands of student users the second edition refines and extends the pedagogical innovations that years of use has now shown to be effective. Unprecedented analysis of national student metadata has allowed every problem to be systematically enhanced for educational effectives and to ensure problem sets of ideal topic coverage balance of qualitative and quantitative problems and range of difficulty and duration. Newton's Concepts of Motion  Kinematics in One Dimension  Vectors and Coordinate Systems  Kinematics in Two Dimensions  Force and Motion  Dynamics Motion Along a Line  Dynamics Interacting Objects  Dynamics Motion in a Plane Conservation Impulse and Momentum  Energy  Work Applications of Newtonian Rotation of a Rigid Body  Newton's Theory of Gravity  Oscillations  Fluids and Elasticity A Macroscopic Description of Matter  Work Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics  The Micro/Macro Connection  Heat Engines and Refrigerators Waves and Traveling Waves  Superposition  Wave Optics  Ray Optics  Optical Instruments  Modern Optics and Matter Waves Electricity and 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 Relativity  The End of Classical Physics  Quantization  Wave Functions and Probabilities  One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics  Atomic Physics  Nuclear Physics MARKET : For all readers interested in leading students to a deeper and better-connected understanding of the concepts and more proficient problem-solving skills. 
language: English
title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics [with MasteringPhysics]
publisher: Benjamin Cummings