Connect Plus Access Card Physical Universe

Krauskopf, Konrad; Beiser, Arthur

ISBN 10: 007748374X ISBN 13: 9780077483746

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2011

ConnectPlus offers an innovative and inexpensive electronic textbook integrated within the Connect online homework platform. ConnectPlus Physics provides students with online assignments and assessments AND 24/7 online access to an eBook—an online edition of the The Physical Universe text.

With ConnectPlus Physics, instructors can deliver assignments, quizzes and tests online.

All of the Exercises from The Physical Universe 14E text are presented in an auto-gradable format and tied to the text’s learning objectives. Exercises are formatted in either multiple-choice or open-ended numeric entry, with a variety of static and randomized, algorithmic versions.

Questions and Interactive Problems from the Student Study Guide are also available in an auto-gradable format.

Instructors can edit existing questions or author entirely new problems. Track individual student performance—by question, assignment or in relation to the class overall—with detailed grade reports. Integrate grade reports easily with Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as WebCT and Blackboard. And much more.

By choosing ConnectPlus Physics, instructors are providing their students with a powerful tool for improving academic performance and truly mastering course material. ConnectPlus Physics allows students to practice important skills at their own pace and on their own schedule. Importantly, students’ assessment results and instructors’ feedback are all saved online—so students can continually review their progress and plot their course to success.

As part of the ehomework process, instructors can assign chapter and section readings from the text. With ConnectPlus, links to relevant text topics are also provided where students need them most—accessed directly from the ehomework problem!

The ConnectPlus eBook:

Provides students with an online eBook, allowing for anytime, anywhere access to The Physical Universe textbook to aid them in successfully completing their work, wherever and whenever they choose.

Includes Community Notes for student-to-student or instructor-to-student note sharing to greatly enhance the user learning experience.

Allows for insertion of lecture discussions or instructor-created additional examples using Tegrity to provide additional clarification or varied coverage on a topic.

Merges media and assessments with the text’s narrative to engage students and improve learning and retention. The eBook includes animations and inline assessment questions.

Pinpoints and connects key physical science concepts in a snap using the powerful eBook search engine.

Manages notes, highlights and bookmarks in one place for simple, comprehensive review.

With the ConnectPlus companion site, instructors also have access to Power Point lecture outlines, the Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint files with electronic images from the text, clicker questions, quizzes, animations, and many other resources directly tied to text-specific materials in The Physical Universe.

Students have access to a variety of self-quizzes, key term matching exercises, animations, web links, additional worked examples, and expansions of some topics treated only briefly in the text. The Glossary is now on the website and important new developments in the physical sciences will be described on the website as they are reported.

See www.mhhe.com/krauskopf to learn more and register.

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About the Author:

Konrad B. Krauskopf was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin and earned a B.S. in chemistry from University of Wisconsin in 1931. He then earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California in Berkeley. When the Great Depression made jobs in chemistry scarce, Professor Krauskopf decided to study geology, which had long fascinated him. Through additional graduate work at Stanford University, he earned a second Ph.D. and eventually a position on the Stanford faculty. He remained at Stanford until his retirement in 1976. During his tenure, Professor Krauskopf also worked at various times with the U.S. Geological Survey, served with the U.S. army in occupied Japan, and traveled to Norway, France, and Germany on sabbatical leaves. His research interests included field work on granites and metamorphic rocks and laboratory study on applications of chemistry to geologic problems, especially the formation of ore deposits. In recent years, Professor Krauskopf had spent time working with various government agencies on the problem of radioactive waste disposal.

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