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Conceptual Physics, 10/E
Paul G. Hewitt, City College of San Francisco

ISBN-10: 0805391908
ISBN-13: 9780805391909

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2006
Format: Cloth Package; 832 pp
Status: Out of Print

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Since defining this course 30 years ago, Paul Hewitt’s best-selling text continues to be the benchmark book that two-thirds of professors use and by which all others are judged. In the Tenth edition of Conceptual Physics, Paul Hewitt shows how a compelling text and the most advanced media can be integrated to empower professors to bring physics to life for non-science majors in and out of class.   For the Tenth edition, Hewitt helps students connect physics to their everyday experiences and the world around them with additional help on solving more mathematical problems.

 

Hewitt's text is famous for engaging students with analogies and imagery from real-world situations that build a strong conceptual understanding of physical principles ranging from classical mechanics to modern physics. With this strong foundation, students are better equipped to understand the equations and formulas of physics, and motivated to explore the thought-provoking exercises and fun projects in each chapter. Icons in the text direct students to fun and effective interactive on-line activities on The Physics Place website.   This highly acclaimed website now features, by popular demand, three new interactive and animated tutorials (bringing the total to 20) that coach students through core topics, as well as video demonstrations, and hundreds of problems and activities to help students effectively review the material.

  • An extensive full-color line art and photo program includes the author’s highly acclaimed, amusing, and informative cartoons.
  • Fun and easy-to-perform projects involve students in exploration and observation.
  • Critically acclaimed exercises and questions refined through use by more than 750,000 students.
  • Problem sets have been expanded and revised in each chapter, including many new numerical problems.
  • Media icons in the text direct the student to targeted activities on The Physics Place website, which provides both deductive and inductive tools for learning physics, including: objectives, Interactive Tutorials, Next Time Questions, graded online quizzes, web links, review questions, labs, Hewitt’s famous video clips, and much more. Instructors have access to the Instructor's Manual, answers to labs, answers to the Next Time Questions, a syllabus manager, and a new gradebook allowing them to electronically assign, track, and automatically grade the Interactive Tutorials and Quizzes for weekly homework.
  • Check Yourself and Check Your Answer boxes embedded within the text help students gauge their level of understanding of the material just covered.
  • Practicing Physics boxes allow students to work a problem or experiment based on the material covered in each chapter.

  • One-Step Calculations at the end of each chapter help familiarize students with important formulas.
  • New numerical problems provided at the end of each chapter.
  • Insights boxes provide information that cross-references similar ideas found in other chapters, everyday life, and other interesting tid-bits.
  • A Problem-Solving supplement helps students master the quantitative side of physics with more math help and more quantitative problems.
  • The Conceptual Physics Lecture Launcher CD-ROM provides the most comprehensive resource available of purpose-built in-class teaching aids — figures form the book, Hewitt’s famous demos, applets and animations, even in-class CRS (Classroom Response System) questions.
  • An online gradebook allows professors to easily assign the highly-acclaimed Interactive Tutorials and a wealth of quizzes on The Physics Place to be automatically tracked and graded for homework.
  • By popular demand, three new tutorials have been built for The Physics Place covering circuits, magnetism, and nuclear physics.

1. About Science

 

I. MECHANICS

 

2. Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia

3. Linear Motion

4. Newton's Second Law of Motion: Force and Acceleration

5. Newton's Third Law of Motion: Action and Reaction 

6. Momentum

7. Energy

8. Rotational Motion

9. Gravity

10. Projectile and Satellite Motion

II. PROPERTIES OF MATTER

11. Atomic Nature of Matter

12. Solids

13. Liquids

14. Gases and Plasmas

III. HEAT

15. Temperature, Heat and Expansion

16. Heat Transfer

17. Change of Phase

18. Thermodynamics

IV. SOUND

19. Vibrations and Waves

20. Sound

21. Musical Sounds

V. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

22. Electrostatics

23. Electric Current

24. Magnetism

25. Electromagnetic Induction

VI. LIGHT

26. Properties of Light

27. Color

28. Reflection and Refraction

29. Light Waves

30. Light Emission

31. Light Quanta

VII. ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS

32. The Atom and the Quantum

33. Atomic Nucleus and Radioactivity

34. Nuclear Fission and Fusion

VIII. RELATIVITY

35. Special Theory of Relativity

36. General Theory of Relativity

APPENDICES

A. Systems of Measurement

B. More About Motion

C. Graphing

D. More About Vectors

E. Exponential Growth and Doubling Time

    Since defining this course 30 years ago, Paul Hewitt’s best-selling text continues to be the benchmark book that two-thirds of professors use and by which all others are judged. In Conceptual Physics Media Update,Tenth Edition, Paul Hewitt shows how a compelling text and the most advanced media can be integrated to empower professors as they bring physics to life for non-science majors, both in and out of class. For the Tenth Edition, Hewitt helps students connect physics to their everyday experiences and the world around them, and provides additional help on solving mathematical problems.

     

    Hewitt's text is famous for engaging students with analogies and imagery from real-world situations that build a strong conceptual understanding of physical principles ranging from classical mechanics to modern physics. With this strong foundation, students are better equipped to understand the equations and formulas of physics, and are motivated to explore the thought-provoking exercises and fun projects in each chapter. Icons in the text direct students to fun and effective interactive activities on The Physics Place website. This highly acclaimed website features ten new Interactive Figures™ that coach students through core topics, updated Interactive Tutorials, engaging Video Demonstrations, and hundreds of problems and activities for self-study and assessment.

  • 0321548094Conceptual Physics Media Update, 10/E
    Hewitt
    © 2009 | Addison-Wesley | Cloth Package; 816 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321548094 | ISBN-13: 9780321548092
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Paul G. Hewitt was a Silver Medalist flyweight Boxing Champion for New England States at the age of 17. He was then a cartoonist, sign painter, and uranium prospector before beginning his physics studies.

Conceptual Physics was first published in 1971, while Hewitt was teaching at City College of San Francisco. He has also served as a guest lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Hewitt returned to San Francisco to teach at the City College and the well-known science museum, The Exploratorium. He retired from full-time teaching in 2000, and currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida.

 

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