Focus on the fundamentals and help students see connections between problem types.
Richard Wolfson’s Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and relevant real-life applications in an affordable and streamlined text. The book teaches sound problem-solving strategies and emphasizes conceptual understanding, using features such as annotated figures and step-by-step problem-solving strategies. Realizing students have changed a great deal over time while the fundamentals of physics have changed very little, Wolfson makes physics relevant and alive for students by sharing the latest physics applications in a succinct and captivating style.
The 4th Edition, Global Edition, incorporates research from instructors, reviewers, and thousands of students to expand the book’s problem sets and consistent problem-solving strategy. A new problem type guides students to see patterns, make connections between problems that can be solved using similar steps, and apply those steps when working problems on homework and exams. New digital tools and the interactive Pearson eText increase student interactivity to help them develop confidence in solving problems, deepen their conceptual understanding, and strengthen quantitative-reasoning skills.
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Author(s): Richard Wolfson
Edition: 4, Global Edition
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 813
City: Harlow
Volume 1 contains Chapters 1-19 Volume 2 contains Chapters 20-39 1 Doing Physics 1.1 Realms of Physics 1.2 Measurements and Units 1.3 Working with Numbers 1.4 Strategies for Learning Physics Part One Mechanics 2 Motion in a Straight Line 2.1 Average Motion 2.2 Instantaneous Velocity 2.3 Acceleration 2.4 Constant Acceleration 2.5 The Acceleration of Gravity 2.6 When Acceleration Isn't Constant Chapter 3 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions 3.1 Vectors 3.2 Velocity and Acceleration Vectors 3.3 Relative Motion 3.4 Constant Acceleration 3.5 Projectile Motion 3.6 Uniform Circular Motion 4 Force and Motion 4.1 The Wrong Question 4.2 Newton's First and Second Laws 4.3 Forces 4.4 The Force of Gravity 4.5 Using Newton's Second Law 4.6 Newton's Third Law 5 Using Newton's Laws 5.1 Using Newton's Second Law 5.2 Multiple Objects 5.3 Circular Motion 5.4 Friction 5.5 Drag Forces 6 Energy, Work, and Power 6.1 Energy 6.2 Work 6.3 Forces That Vary 6.4 Kinetic Energy 6.5 Power 7 Conservation of Energy 7.1 Conservative and Nonconservative Forces 7.2 Potential Energy 7.3 Conservation of Mechanical Energy 7.4 Nonconservative Forces 7.5 Conservation of Energy 7.6 Potential-Energy Curves 8 Gravity 8.1 Toward a Law of Gravity 8.2 Universal Gravitation 8.3 Orbital Motion 8.4 Gravitational Energy 8.5 The Gravitational Field 9 Systems of Particles 9.1 Center of Mass 9.2 Momentum 9.3 Kinetic Energy of a System 9.4 Collisions 9.5 Totally Inelastic Collisions 9.6 Elastic Collisions 10 Rotational Motion 10.1 Angular Velocity and Acceleration 10.2 Torque 10.3 Rotational Inertia and the Analog of Newton's Law 10.4 Rotational Energy 10.5 Rolling Motion 11 Rotational Vectors and Angular Momentum 11.1 Angular Velocity and Acceleration Vectors 11.2 Torque and the Vector Cross Product 11.3 Angular Momentum 11.4 Conservation of Angular Mom
