Fundamentals of Physics, Extended

by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker

Overview

Fundamentals of Physics, 12th Edition guides students through the process of learning how to effectively read scientific material, identify fundamental concepts, reason through scientific questions, and solve quantitative problems.

The 12^th edition includes a renewed focus on several contemporary areas of research to help challenge students to recognize how scientific and engineering applications are fundamental to the world's clockwork.

A wide array of tools will support students' active learning as they work through and engage in this course. Fundamentals of Physics, 12e is built to be a learning center with practice opportunities, interactive challenges, activities, simulations, and videos. Practice and assessment questions are available with immediate feedback and detailed solutions, to ensure that students understand the problem-solving processes behind key concepts and understand their mistakes while working through problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119773511
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/12/2021
Edition description:	12th Edition Extended
Pages:	1536
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 2.30(d)

About the Author

David Halliday is associated with the University of Pittsburgh as Professor Emeritus. As department chair in 1960, he and Robert Resnick collaborated on Physics for Students of Science and Engineering and then on Fundamentals of Physics. Fundamentals is currently in its eighth edition and has since been handed over from Halliday and Resnick to Jearl Walker. Dr. Halliday is retired and resides in Seattle.

Robert Resnick is professor emeritus at Rensselaer and the former Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Science Education, 1974-93. Together with his co-author David Halliday, he revolutionized physics education with their now famous textbook on general physics, still one of the most highly regarded texts in the field today.

Jearl Walker, professor of physics at Cleveland State University, received his BS in physics from MIT in 1967 and his PhD in physics from University of Maryland in 1973. His book The Flying Circus of Physics was published 30 years ago, has been translated into at least 10 languages, and is still being sold world wide. For 16 years he toured his Flying Circus talk throughout the U.S. and Canada, introducing such physics stunts as the bed-of-nails demonstration and the walking-on-hot-coals demonstration to countless physics teachers, who then proceeded to hurt themselves when they repeated the stunts in their own classrooms. These talks led to his PBS television show Kinetic Karnival which ran nationally for years and which earned an Emmy.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:
Measurement.
Motion Along a Straight Line.
Vectors.
Motion in Two and Three Dimensions.
Force and Motion--I.
Force and Motion--II.
Kinetic Energy and Work.
Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy.
Rotation.
Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum.
Equilibrium and Elasticity.
Fluids.
Oscillations.
Waves--I.
Waves-- II.
Temperature, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics.
The Kinetic Theory of Gases.
Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Electric Fields.
Gauss' Law.
Electric Potential.
Current and Resistance.
Circuits.
Magnetic Fields.
Magnetic Fields Due to Currents.
Induction and Inductance.
Electromagnetic Waves.
Diffraction.
Photons and Matter Waves.
Nuclear Physics.
Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang.
Appendices.
Answers to Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions, Exercises and Problems.
Index.

Editorial Reviews

New edition of a time-tested introductory college text for science and engineering majors. The "extended" edition contains 45 chapters (other versions of the same text contain fewer chapters or are bound in two volumes). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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