Student Study Guide and Selected Solutions Manual for Physics
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This Study Guide complements the strong pedagogy in Giancoli’s text with overviews, topic summaries and exercises, key phrases and terms, self-study exams, problems for review of each chapter, and answers and solutions to selected EOC material.
Engaging applications and elegant writing show the relevance of physics.
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Concrete applications, observations, and experiences that students can relate to show students how useful physics is in their everyday lives and future professions in such areas as biology, medicine, and architecture.
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Physics Applied margin notes highlight the varied and frequent applications in the text.The writing style is concise and elegant, using an economy of words to describe physics accurately and precisely.
Proven pedagogy guides students through common misconceptions to teach important problem solving skills.
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NEW! Chapter-Opening Questions, at the start of each chapter, help identify preconceived notions that students might have before they read the chapter.
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NEW! MisConceptual Questions are multiple-choice questions, at the end of each chapter, that address common student misconceptions.
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NEW! Search and Learn Problems at the end of each chapter encourage students to reread part of the text.
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Worked Examples include consistent problem solving strategies with Approach, Solution, and Note steps.
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Problem Solving Strategies throughout the book outline step-by-step approaches to get students thinking about and involved in the problem at hand.
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Conceptual Examples feature brief Socratic questions intended to stimulate students to respond before they read the Response given.
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Estimate Examples develop skills for making order-of-magnitude estimates.
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Problem Solving margin notes offer problem solving hints where needed most.
Douglas C. Giancoli obtained his BA in physics (summa cum laude) from UC Berkeley, his MS in physics at MIT, and his PhD in elementary particle physics back at the UC Berkeley. He spent 2 years as a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley’s Virus lab developing skills in molecular biology and biophysics. His mentors include Nobel winners Emilio Segrè and Donald Glaser.
He has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses, traditional as well as innovative ones, and continues to update his textbooks meticulously, seeking ways to better provide an understanding of physics for students.
Doug’s favorite spare-time activity is the outdoors, especially climbing peaks. He says climbing peaks is like learning physics: it takes effort and the rewards are great.
Improved and Updated Pedagogy
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MisConceptual (Multiple-choice) Questions now appear at the end of each chapter. Answer options for these questions are intended to include common student misconceptions, providing both a learning and a testing experience.
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Search and Learn Problems are placed at the very end of each Chapter, after the other Problems. While some problems are relatively difficult, others are fairly easy. They are intended to compel the student to go back and reread some part or parts of the text, and in this search for an answer they will hopefully learn more.
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Chapter-Opening Questions (COQs) start each chapter as a sort of “stimulant.” Each is multiple-choice, with responses including common misconceptions—to get preconceived notions out on the table right at the start. Where relevant material is covered in the text, students find an Exercise asking them to return to the COQ and reconsider it.
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Modified examples include more math steps that are spelled out, and many new Examples have been added. About 10% of all Examples are Estimate Examples.
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Improved page layout has been achieved for every page of the book. Important derivations and Examples are on facing pages.
Updated Content and Applications
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Language has been streamlined throughout and edited for greater clarity. Specifically, essentials appear first; elaborations follow.
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Digital coverage has been significantly updated throughout. This major change includes crucial new applications in today’s world, where students are surrounded by digital electronics. In an effort to help students understand “How it works,” the author explains:
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The basis of digital in bits and bytes, how analog gets transformed into digital, sampling rate, bit depth, quantization error, compression, and noise
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How digital TV works, including how each pixel is addressed for each frame, data stream, refresh rate
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Semiconductor computer memory, DRAM, and Flash
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Digital cameras and sensors—revised and expanded
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New semiconductor physics, some of which is used in digital devices, including LEDs and OLEDs—how they work and what their uses are, plus more on transistors (MOSFETs), chips, and technology generation, as in 22-nm technology
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New topics, new applications, and principal revisions include:
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You can measure the Earth’s radius
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Improved graphical analysis of linear motion
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The Moon’s orbit around the Earth: its phases and periods, with a diagram
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Planets (how they were first seen); heliocentric and geocentric models
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This Study Guide complements the strong pedagogy in Giancoli’s text with overviews, topic summaries and exercises, key phrases and terms, self-study exams, problems for review of each chapter, and answers and solutions to selected EOC material.
The complete version includes Chapters 1-33. This title is also available as 2 separate volumes:
- Volume 1: Chapters 1-15
- Volume 2: Chapters 16-33
- Introduction, Measurement, Estimating
- Describing Motion: Kinematics in One Dimension
- Kinematics in Two Dimensions; Vectors
- Dynamics: Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Circular Motion; Gravitation
- Work and Energy
- Linear Momentum
- Rotational Motion
- Static Equilibrium; Elasticity and Fracture
- Fluids
- Oscillations and Waves
- Sound
- Temperature and Kinetic Theory
- Heat
- The Laws of Thermodynamics
- Electric Charge and Electric Field
- Electric Potential
- Electric Currents
- DC Circuits
- Magnetism
- Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday’s Law
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Light: Geometric Optics
- The Wave Nature of Light
- Optical Instruments
- The Special Theory of Relativity
- Early Quantum Theory and Models of the Atom
- Quantum Mechanics of Atoms
- Molecules and Solids
- Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity
- Nuclear Energy; Effects and Uses of Radiation
- Elementary Particles
- Astrophysics and Cosmology
APPENDICES
- A. Mathematical Review
- B. Selected Isotopes
- C. Rotating Frames of Reference; Inertial Forces; Coriolis Effect Inertial and Noninertial Reference Frames
- D. Molar Specific Heats for Gases, and the Equipartition of Energy Molar Specific Heats for Gases
- E. Galilean and Lorentz Transformations
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems
Index
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Dimensions | 0.90 × 8.50 × 10.70 in |
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Subjects | science, physics, higher education, Physical Sciences, Algebra-Based Physics |