Overview
- Very didactical textbook
- Presents the mathematical basics for each topic
- Contains many exercises and solutions for teaching and learning
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamental Basics
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Introductory Thermodynamics
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Sound and Light Waves
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About this book
This textbook presents a basic course in physics to teach mechanics, mechanical properties of matter, thermal properties of matter, elementary thermodynamics, electrodynamics, electricity, magnetism, light and optics and sound. It includes simple mathematical approaches to each physical principle, and all examples and exercises are selected carefully to reinforce each chapter. In addition, answers to all exercises are included that should ultimately help solidify the concepts in the minds of the students and increase their confidence in the subject. Many boxed features are used to separate the examples from the text and to highlight some important physical outcomes and rules. The appendices are chosen in such a way that all basic simple conversion factors, basic rules and formulas, basic rules of differentiation and integration can be viewed quickly, helping student to understand the elementary mathematical steps used for solving the examples and exercises.
Instructors teaching form this textbook will be able to gain online access to the solutions manual which provides step-by-step solutions to all exercises contained in the book. The solutions manual also contains many tips, coloured illustrations, and explanations on how the solutions were derived.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“The book follows the basic organization of an introductory physics course and covers all of the topics with sufficient depth … . The book contains all the essentials, showing different applications for varied laws of physics and introducing the working principles of some of the instruments that students might work with in a physics lab. … a textbook to read before a lecture on a specific topic, as the student can familiarize himself with the definitions and mathematics used.” (Kadri Tinn, AstroMadness.com, August, 2014)
“I recommend this book to people who need easy and direct access to a wide spectrum of physics theories to apply practically in their professional life. This is a very well written text book. I love the colorful diagrams and illustrations. I would highly recommend this book for any respectful universities and colleges. Students would invest once in this book and use it in multiple courses.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, March, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
John O. Rasmussen is Emeritus Professor in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles of Physics
Book Subtitle: For Scientists and Engineers
Authors: Hafez A. Radi, John O. Rasmussen
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23026-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23025-7Published: 02 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23026-4Published: 02 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 1067
Number of Illustrations: 416 b/w illustrations, 559 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Continuum Physics, Classical Mechanics, Classical Electrodynamics, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering