College Physics
Third Edition| ©2021 Roger A. Freedman; Todd Ruskell; Philip R. Kesten; David L. Tauck
Now available for the first time with Macmillan’s new online learning tool Achieve, Freedman’s College Physics makes it easy for instructors to support every student by using best teaching practices in their algebra-based physics courses. With resources for befor...
Now available for the first time with Macmillan’s new online learning tool Achieve, Freedman’s College Physics makes it easy for instructors to support every student by using best teaching practices in their algebra-based physics courses. With resources for before, during, and after class, students of all backgrounds are engaged and supported at every step of the learning process. The text further supports student comprehension with its hallmark Set Up, Solve, Reflect problem-solving approach to help students understand and visualize problems. Perfect for students of all backgrounds, the text contains call-outs to additional math review and relevant applications of physics, including those from biology.
In this edition, the end-of-chapter questions have been thoroughly updated for clarity and quality and over 80% are now available for assigning in Achieve, while still featuring detailed and targeted feedback, solutions, and hints for every question.
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Now available for the first time with Macmillan’s new online learning tool Achieve, Freedman’s College Physics makes it easy for instructors to support every student by using best teaching practices in their algebra-based physics courses. With resources for before, during, and after class, students of all backgrounds are engaged and supported at every step of the learning process. The text further supports student comprehension with its hallmark Set Up, Solve, Reflect problem-solving approach to help students understand and visualize problems. Perfect for students of all backgrounds, the text contains call-outs to additional math review and relevant applications of physics, including those from biology.
In this edition, the end-of-chapter questions have been thoroughly updated for clarity and quality and over 80% are now available for assigning in Achieve, while still featuring detailed and targeted feedback, solutions, and hints for every question.
Features
NEW Achieve College Physics online homework
- Resources to support learning before class, or for flipped classrooms, include our popular videos and assessment from FlipIt Physics.
- Narrated Prelecture videos provide an alternative method to support multimedia learning and limit cognitive load. Each video is 1-3 minutes in length, totalling an assignment length of approximately 15 minutes, and conceptual questions, interspersed between Prelecture videos, keep students engaged and on track.
- Bridge questions give students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding before coming to class, while providing insights for instructors, leading to more meaningful class time. - To support learning during class, In-Class Activities written by Roger Freedman have been fully adapted for implementation through our easy-to-use In-Class Activity Guides. iClicker questions and deep integration with Achieve also supports active participation during class time.
- For homework and study after class, Achieve features over 3,500 homework questions, including questions with regenerating algorithmic values. Every question in Achieve offers a hint, answer-specific feedback, and a fully worked solution to coach students through problem solving. Achieve question types include
- Multiple choice
- Ranking
- Sorting
- Symbolic expression entry
- Graphing
- Numeric entry
- Multi-part questions - LearningCurve adaptive quizzing provides additional practice for students on foundational concepts.
- An interactive e-book, powered by VitalSource, allows students to download for offline reading, print select pages, have the book read aloud to them, and search for key terms, phrases, and figures. Additionally, students can highlight, take notes, and create flashcards for studying.
- HTML5 PhET simulations from the University of Colorado at Boulder help students gain a visual understanding of concepts and illustrate cause-and-effect relationships.
- Over 80 P’Cast whiteboard-style videos, based on worked examples from the text, simulate the experience of watching an instructor walk through the steps and explanation of physics concepts while solving a problem.
IN THE TEXTBOOK
- Set Up, Solve, Reflect problem-solving approach
- Worked examples contain every step of required math, while providing figures to help students visualize the problem.
- Reflect section includes detail and context to connect the worked example to a larger concept. - Word balloons break out each component of key equations, summarizing the narrative in an easy-to-digest visual format.
- Every chapter includes biological examples and applications from the real world.
- Index of biological examples tagged to each chapter - Got the Concept? problems are built into the flow of the text for checking conceptual understanding.
- Watch Out! boxes draw attention to common student misconceptions and correct them immediately while promoting a deeper understanding of physics.
- Every chapter section contains a Take-Home Message, which summarizes key points from the reading.
- Outcome-based learning objectives are listed at the beginning of each chapter to guide students through the most important topics to understand.
- The math appendix provides additional review for students.
New to This Edition
NEW Achieve College Physics online homework
- Resources to support learning before class, or for flipped classrooms, include our popular videos and assessment from FlipIt Physics.
- Narrated Prelecture videos provide an alternative method to support multimedia learning and limit cognitive load. Each video is 1-3 minutes in length, totalling an assignment length of approximately 15 minutes, and conceptual questions, interspersed between Prelecture videos, keep students engaged and on track.
- Bridge questions give students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding before coming to class, while providing insights for instructors, leading to more meaningful class time. - To support learning during class, In-Class Activities written by Roger Freedman have been fully adapted for implementation through our easy-to-use In-Class Activity Guides. iClicker questions and deep integration with Achieve also supports active participation during class time.
- For homework and study after class, Achieve features over 3,500 homework questions, including questions with regenerating algorithmic values. Every question in Achieve offers a hint, answer-specific feedback, and a fully worked solution to coach students through problem solving. Achieve question types include
- Multiple choice
- Ranking
- Sorting
- Symbolic expression entry
- Graphing
- Numeric entry
- Multi-part questions - LearningCurve adaptive quizzing provides additional practice for students on foundational concepts.
- An interactive e-book, powered by VitalSource, allows students to download for offline reading, print select pages, have the book read aloud to them, and search for key terms, phrases, and figures. Additionally, students can highlight, take notes, and create flashcards for studying.
- HTML5 PhET simulations from the University of Colorado at Boulder help students gain a visual understanding of concepts and illustrate cause-and-effect relationships.
- Over 80 P’Cast whiteboard-style videos, based on worked examples from the text, simulate the experience of watching an instructor walk through the steps and explanation of physics concepts while solving a problem.
IN THE TEXTBOOK
- New figures, emphasizing biological examples and applications
- Additions to the pedagogical features in the text, including new Watch-out Boxes, Got the Concept? Boxes, and Key terms
- Content updates, including the presentation of the new SI units of measurement, which in 2018 redefined the kilogram, kelvin, ampere, and mole (references throughout the text); and an updated discussion on Radiation and Climate in Ch14 Thermodynamics I: Temperature and Heat, describing the connection between atmospheric CO2 and global warming using the most recent data
- Increased coverage of physics topics of biomedical interest; for example, the optics of microscopes (Ch24), and how the physics of thin films helps us understand the phenomenon of nighttime eyeshine from a cat’s eye’s reflective tapetum lucidum (Ch23)
- Changes to improve the clarity of figures, expanding the use of word balloons to help students understand mathematical equations and interpret art
- Formatting changes to the worked examples, facilitating learners’ step-by-step process of working through the problem
- Structural and content changes to the End of Chapter sections, as part of our Achieve initiative
"This book breaks a complex problem apart, and step by step teaches students how to think about a physics problem, rather than just substitute a formula."
-Yiyan Bai: Houston Community College"This book is great for teaching physics the right way."
-Avishek Kumar: Arizona State University"This chapter is very well written and one of the best on Fluids that I have read for a non-calculus based text. The main strengths are: 1. The comprehensiveness of the various topics without the mathematical details. 2. The numerical examples to explain the various topics 3. "Got the Concepts" that challenges the students to think."
-Arup Neogi: University of North Texas"This is an excellent physics textbook. I particularly like the easy-to-understand bubble text to clarify equations and figures, which many students typically spend quite some time to understand. The clearly written example problems and solution steps are also essential for this book, which I expect the students to like a lot…The presentation of this book is outstanding. It will be a good choice for students with wide ranging math and physics backgrounds."
-Fengyuan Yang: The Ohio State University"The worked example in the text are excellent, with more detail and consistency of approach than is typical in a textbook at this level."
-Matthew Craig, Minnesota State University Moorhead"This textbook does a good job of describing the physics concepts while providing many examples of typical problems. The examples are done in a useful way, by not just showing the mathematical steps but also justifying in the text why the steps or approach is taken."
-Jeremy Armstrong, University of Nebraska at Kearney"This is is the best treatment of Maxwells equations in electromagnetic waves I have ever seen in an algebra-based physics textbook."
-Lawrence Rees, Brigham Young University
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College Physics
Third Edition| 2021
Roger A. Freedman; Todd Ruskell; Philip R. Kesten; David L. Tauck
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Physics2. Motion in One Dimension
3. Motion in Two or Three Dimensions
4. Forces and Motion I: Newton’s Laws
5. Forces and Motion II: Applications
6. Work and Energy
7. Gravitation
8. Momentum, Collisions, and Center of Mass
9. Rotational Motion
10. Elastic Properties of Matter: Stress and Strain
11. Fluids
12. Oscillations
13. Waves
14. Thermodynamics I: Temperature and Heat
15. Thermodynamics II: Laws of Thermodynamics
16. Electrostatics I: Electric Charge, Forces, and Fields
17. Electrostatics II: Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential
18. DC Circuits: Electric Charges in Motion
19. Magnetism: Forces and Fields
20. Electromagnetic Induction
21. Alternating-Current Circuits
22. Electromagnetic Waves
23. Physical Optics: Wave Properties of Light
24. Geometrical Optics: Ray Properties of Light
25. Relativity
26. Quantum Physics and Atomic Structure
27. Nuclear Physics
28. Particle Physics and Beyond
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Roger Freedman
He was an undergraduate at the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles, and did his doctoral research in theoretical nuclear physics at Stanford University. He came to UCSB in 1981 after three years of teaching and doing research at the University of Washington. At UCSB, Dr. Freedman has taught in both the Department of Physics and the College of Creative Studies, a branch of the university intended for highly gifted and motivated undergraduates. In recent years, he has helped to develop computer-based tools for learning introductory physics and astronomy and has been a pioneer in the use of classroom response systems and the “flipped” classroom model at UCSB. Roger holds a commercial pilot’s license and was an early organizer of the San Diego Comic-Con, now the world’s largest popular culture convention.
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Todd Ruskell
As a Teaching Professor of Physics at the Colorado School of Mines, Todd G. Ruskell focuses on teaching at the introductory level, and continually develops more effective ways to help students learn. One method used in large enrollment introductory courses is Studio Physics. This collaborative, hands-on environment helps students develop better intuition about, and conceptual models of, physical phenomena through an active learning approach. Dr. Ruskell brings his experience in improving students’ conceptual understanding to the text, as well as a strong liberal arts perspective. Dr. Ruskell’s love of physics began with a B.A. in physics from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He went on to receive an M.S. and Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. He has received awards for teaching excellence, including Colorado School of Mines’ Alumni Teaching Award. Dr. Ruskell currently serves on the physics panel and advisory board for the NANSLO (North American Network of Science Labs Online) project.
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Philip R. Kesten
Dr. Philip Kesten, Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Provost for Residential Learning Communities at Santa Clara University, holds a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. in high energy particle physics from the University of Michigan. Since joining the Santa Clara faculty in 1990, Dr. Kesten has also served as Chair of Physics, Faculty Director of the ATOM and da Vinci Residential Learning Communities, and Director of the Ricard Memorial Observatory. He has received awards for teaching excellence and curriculum innovation, was Santa Claras Faculty Development Professor for 2004-2005, and was named the California Professor of the Year in 2005 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education. Dr. Kesten is co-founder of Docutek, (A SirsiDynix Company), an Internet software company, and has served as the Senior Editor for Modern Dad, a newsstand magazine.
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