Fundamentals of Physics

by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker

Overview

Renowned for its interactive focus on conceptual understanding, its superlative problem-solving instruction, and emphasis on reasoning skills, the Fundamentals of Physics, 12th Edition, is an industry-leading resource in physics teaching. With expansive, insightful, and accessible treatments of a wide variety of subjects, including straight line motion, measurement, vectors, and kinetic energy, the book is an invaluable reference for physics educators and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119801146
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/12/2021
Pages:	1312
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.80(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.

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Table of Contents

Volume 1

1 Measurement

2 Motion Along a Straight Line

3 Vectors

4 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions

5 Force and Motion—I

6 Force and Motion—II

7 Kinetic Energy and Work

8 Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy

9 Center of Mass and Linear Momentum

10 Rotation

11 Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum

12 Equilibrium and Elasticity

13 Gravitation

14 Fluids

15 Oscillations

16 Waves—I

17 Waves—II

18 Temperature, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

19 The Kinetic Theory of Gases

20 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Volume 2

21 Coulomb’s Law

22 Electric Fields

23 Gauss’ Law

24 Electric Potential

25 Capacitance

26 Current and Resistance

27 Circuits

28 Magnetic Fields

29 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents

30 Induction and Inductance

31 Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

32 Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism of Matter

33 Electromagnetic Waves

34 Images

35 Interference

36 Diffraction

37 Relativity

38 Photons and Matter Waves

39 More About Matter Waves

40 All About Atoms

41 Conduction of Electricity in Solids

42 Nuclear Physics

43 Energy from the Nucleus

44 Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang

Editorial Reviews

The second portion of a two-volume binding of an introductory college text for science and engineering majors. Containing chapters 22-45, coverage includes electricity and electromagnetic waves, relativity, nuclear physics, and quarks, leptons, and the Big Bang (v.1 covers mechanics and thermodynamics). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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