Physics Volume 1 - Softcover

Giambattista, Alan; Richardson, Robert; Richardson, Betty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0077340523 ISBN 13: 9780077340520

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2015

Synopsis

The third edition of Physics is intended for a two-semester college course in introductory physics using algebra and trigonometry. This edition presents the basic concepts of physics that students need to know for later courses and future careers. This text helps students learn that physics is a tool for understanding the real world, and to teach transferable problem-solving skills that students can use throughout their entire lives.

Although the fundamental philosophy of the book has not changed, detailed feedback from instructors and students using the previous editions has enabled us to continually fine-tune our approach. Some of the most important enhancements in the third edition include: new/updated MCAT Exam coverage added and moved online, review & synthesis problems added, new biomedical applications, lists of biomedical applications at the beginning of each chapter, new ranking tasks, checkpoints, and collaborative problems. Connections have also been enhanced to help students see the bigger picture.

Also available with this edition: McGraw-Hill SmartBook, ALEKS Math Prep for Physics, McGraw-Hill Connect, Online Physics Education Research Workbook, Electronic Book Images and Assets for Instructors, Computerized Test Bank Online, Electronic Books, Personal Response Systems, Instructor's Resource Guide, and a Student Solutions Manual.

About this title

About the Author:

1996 Nobel Prize in Physics

Alan Giambattista hails from northern New Jersey. His teaching career got an early start when his fourth-grade teacher, Anne Berry, handed the class over to him to teach a few lessons about atoms and molecules. At Brigham Young University, he studied piano performance and physics. After graduate work at Cornell University, he joined the physics faculty and has taught introductory physics there for nearly three decades.

 

Alan still appears in concert regularly as a pianist and harpsichordist. When the long upstate New York winter is finally over, he is eager to get out on Cayuga Lake’s waves of blue for Sunday sailboat races. Alan met his wife Marion in a singing group and they have been making beautiful music together ever since. They live in an 1824 parsonage built for an abolitionist minister, which is now surrounded by an organic dairy farm. Besides taking care of the house, cats, and gardens, they love to travel together, especially to Italy. They also love to spoil their adorable grandchildren, Ivy and Leo.

Betty McCarthy Richardson teaches at the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0077340523
• ISBN 13: 9780077340520
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 656