Principles & Practice of Physics, Global Edition

For Introductory Calculus-based Physics Courses.

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• Physics on a contemporary foundation: Traditional texts delay the introduction of ideas that we now see as unifying and foundational. This text builds physics on those unifying foundations, helping students to develop an understanding that is stronger, deeper, and fundamentally simpler.
• Research-based instruction: This text uses a range of research-based instructional techniques to teach physics in the most effective manner possible.

The result is a groundbreaking book that puts physics first, thereby making it more accessible to students and easier for instructors to teach. MasteringPhysics® works with the text to create a learning program that enables students to learn both in and out of the classroom.


This program provides a better teaching and learning experience for you and your students. Here’s how:

• Build an integrated, conceptual understanding of physics:
Help students gain a deeper understanding of the unified laws that govern our physical world through the innovative chapter structure and pioneering table of contents.
• Encourage informed problem solving:
The separate Practice Volume empowers students to reason more effectively and better solve problems.
• Personalize learning with MasteringPhysics:
MasteringPhysics provides students with engaging experiences that coach them through physics with specific wrong-answer feedback, hints, and a wide variety of educationally effective content.

 MasteringPhysics is not included. Students, if MasteringPhysics  is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MasteringPhysics  is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

MasteringPhysics is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to personalize learning and improve results. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.

This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States.

The book is structured to help students learn physics in an organized way that encourages comprehension and reduces distraction.

• The separation of the Principles and Practice volumes
addresses students' tendency to focus on shallow problem solving at the expense of understanding. The Principles volume teaches the physics; the Practice volume teaches the skills needed to apply physics to the task of solving problems. For example, Principles includes simple worked examples aimed at promoting understanding; Practice contains complex worked examples, problem sets, and related features.
• The division of each Principles chapter into a Concepts section and a Quantitative Tools section
helps students to build a robust understanding of the material instead of focusing too quickly on equations. The Concepts section develops the ideas in qualitative terms, using words and pictures and building from specific observations to general principles. The Quantitative Tools section formalizes the ideas mathematically. 
• The core ideas of mechanics are developed in one dimension,
helping students to concentrate on learning them before tackling the mathematical complexities of two-dimensional analysis. Chapter 10, "Motion in a Plane," introduces the second dimension.

Traditional texts take a somewhat 19th-century approach to physics, delaying the introduction of ideas that we now see as unifying and foundational. This text builds physics on those unifying foundations, helping students to develop an understanding that is stronger, deeper, and fundamentally simpler.

• Conservation laws.