Introductory Physics: A Problem-Solving Approach

"Introductory Physics: A Problem-Solving Approach" is a one-semester college textbook for students with no physics background. It is a friendly book with readable language, entertaining real-life problems and lively illustrations by Paul Hewitt.

Because of it's friendly attitude, this book is also ideal for home study for those who wish to prepare for a general college physics course or to learn more about the world around them.

This book uses algebra and basic trigonometry, and includes reviews and tutorials for both. It is also appropriate for High School use.

Jesse David Wall has been teaching physics at the City College of San Francisco for more than a quarter of a century. He wrote the first edition of "Introductory Physics: A Problem-Solving Approach" in 1977 because no text then existed for his favorite course-- a one-semester preparatory course for general college physics. He helped develop this course because of the great diversity of academic backgrounds of City College physics students.

Professor Wall is also well known in the Physics community for his touring magic show "The Physics of Magic and Vice Versa," which he has performed in hundreds of academic institutions and conferences in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Elender Wall, editor and contributor to the second edition, is Jesse David's daughter. She grew up thinking that Physics was "Phun," an impression that was confirmed when she took Paul Hewitt's course in Conceptual Physics at City College of San Francisco. After finishing a Bachelor's degree in Physics at San Francisco State University, she decided to revise her father's book. She expanded the problems sets, revised and edited text and collaborated with her father on two new chapters.

Paul Hewitt, illustrator, is a renowned physics teacher and author. An instructor for many years at the City College of San Francisco, he now shares his teaching schedule between Sand Francisco and the University of Hawaii, Hilo. He is the author of the college text "Conceptual Physics," the leading physics textbook for non-majors for the last quarter century. He is also the author of the text "Conceptual Physics: A High School Program" and is the co-author, with daughter Leslie Hewitt and nephew John Suchocki, of "Conceptual Physical Science," all published by Addison-Wesley-Longman. Before he found his calling as the world's leading missionary of conceptual physics, he worked as a sign painter, where he honed his artistic skills.