Ideal for professors who want to integrate physics education research methods into their course with a minimum amount of effort. The text retains its broad range of high-quality end of chapter problems developed and refined over 50 years. Includes an appropriate mix of easy and mid-level problems as well as challenging problems. Includes many interesting, applied problems to engineering, biology, medicine, and astrophysics, many requiring an algebraic solution and some requiring a short qualitative answer as well as a quantitative answer. Some emphasize connections between classical and modern physics, others make explicit connections to engineering-related situations, others emphasize computer simulations.
Illustrations make use of unique instructional devices, such as energy bars.
The standard version ends at ch. Units, Physical Quantities, and Vectors. Motion Along a Straight Line. Motion in Two or Three Dimensions. Newton's Laws of Motion.