College Physics, Global Edition (10^th Ed.)

For courses in College Physics.

Bringing the best of physics education research to a trusted and classic text

For more than five decades, Sears and Zemansky's College Physics has provided the most reliable foundation of physics education for students around the world. New coauthors Phil Adams and Ray Chastain thoroughly revised the 10th Edition by incorporating the latest methods from educational research. New features help students develop greater confidence in solving problems, deepen conceptual understanding, and strengthen quantitative-reasoning skills, while helping them connect what they learn with their other courses and the changing world around them.

• Mechanics
• 1. Models, Measurements, and Vectors
• 2. Motion Along a Straight Line
• 3. Motion in a Plane
• 4. Newton’s Laws of Motion
• 5. Applications of Newton’s Laws
• 6. Circular Motion and Gravitation
• 7. Work and Energy
• 8. Momentum
• 9. Rotational Motion
• 10. Dynamics of Rotational Motion
• Periodic Motion, Waves, and Fluids
• 11. Elasticity and Periodic Motion
• 12. Mechanical Waves and Sound
• 13. Fluid Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• 14. Temperature and Heat
• 15. Thermal Properties of Matter
• 16. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Electricity and Magnetism
• 17. Electric Charge and Electric Field
• 18. Electric Potential and Capacitance
• 19. Current, Resistance, and Direct-Current Circuits
• 20. Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces
• 21. Electromagnetic Induction
• 22. Alternating Current
• 23. Electromagnetic Waves
• Light and Optics
• 24. Geometric Optics
• 25. Optical Instruments
• 26. Interference and Diffraction
• Modern Physics
• 27. Relativity
• 28. Photons, Electrons, and Atoms
• 29. Atoms, Molecules, and Solids
• 30. Nuclear and High-Energy Physics

In Memoriam: Hugh Young (1930-2013)

Hugh D. Young was an Emeritus Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from that university. He earned his PhD in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. Dr. Young joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1956 and retired in 2004. He also had two visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr Young's career was centred entirely on undergraduate education. He wrote several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a co-author with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky for their well-known introductory textbooks. In addition to his role in Sears and Zemansky's University Physics, he was the author of Sears and Zemansky's College Physics.

Philip W. Adams is a Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers University in 1986 and then held a postdoctoral research position at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ for two years. He joined the faculty of LSU 1988 and has since become an internationally recognised low temperature experimentalist and has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has given many invited presentations on his work at international workshops and conferences on superconductivity and other topics in low temperature condensed matter physics. Dr. Adams has had a career-long interest in physics education. He has taught introductory physics for engineers and for non-engineers many times in his 30-year tenure at LSU and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards.

Streamlined and modern presentation and pedagogy:

• NEW! Dynamic authors bring deliver the friendly yet focused narrative while preserving the excellence of the Sears and Zemansky legacy. The Tenth Edition conveys a precise, careful, and straightforward understanding of physics, emphasising the connections between concepts and incorporating the best principles of education research.
• NEW! Completely redesigned interior creates an open, friendly appeal while helping students navigate and focus through major principles.
• NEW! Key equations are followed by bulleted “Notes” to guide students through the math and help them relate quantitative expressions to qualitative concepts.
• NEW! An FAQ section at the end of every chapter answers common student questions, drawn from the authors’ vast teaching experience.
• NEW! Learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter map out what the student should be able to do after completing the chapter.
• NEW! Improved pencil sketches are used consistently in worked examples to emphasise what students should draw while solving problems.
• Visual chapter summaries show each concept in words, math, and figures to reinforce how to ‘translate’ between different representations and address different student learning styles.
• Blue annotated comments guide students in ‘reading’ graphs and physics figures.
• Figures, models, and graphs are placed side by side throughout the text to help students ‘translate’ between multiple representations.

A systematic approach to problem solving continues with this edition by providing research-proven tools that help students tackle each goal. The renowned problems in this text have been revised, expanded, and enhanced by the authors, drawing from