Essential University Physics: Volumes 1 & 2, Global Edition, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (December 23, 2020) © 2021

  • Richard Wolfson
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Focus on the fundamentals and help students see connections between problem types

This pack contains 1 copy of Essential University Physics: Volume 1 Global Edition and 1 copy of Essential University Physics: Volume 2 Global Edition.

Richard Wolfson's Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and relevant real-life applications in an affordable and streamlined text. The book teaches sound problem-solving strategies and emphasises conceptual understanding, using features such as annotated figures and step-by-step problem-solving strategies. Realising students have changed a great deal over time while the fundamentals of physics have changed very little, Wolfson makes physics relevant and alive for students by sharing the latest physics applications in a succinct and captivating style.

The 4th Edition, Global Edition, incorporates research from instructors, reviewers, and thousands of students to expand the book's problem sets and consistent problem-solving strategy. A new problem type guides students to see patterns, make connections between problems that can be solved using similar steps, and apply those steps when working problems on homework and exams.

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Essential University Physics: Volume 1

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Essential University Physics: Volume 2

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Table of contents

Volume 1
  • 1. Doing Physics
  • 2. Motion in a Straight Line
  • 3. Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
  • 4. Force and Motion
  • 5. Using Newton's Laws
  • 6. Energy, Work, and Power
  • 7. Conservation of Energy
  • 8. Gravity
  • 9. Systems of Particles
  • 10. Rotational Motion
  • 11. Rotational Vectors and Angular Momentum
  • 12. Static Equilibrium
  • 13. Oscillatory Motion
  • 14. Wave Motion
  • 15. Fluid Motion
  • 16. Temperature and Heat
  • 17. The Thermal Behavior of Matter
  • 18. Heat, Work, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
  • 19. The Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Volume 2 contains Chapters 20-39
  • 20 Electric Charge, Force, and Field
  • 21 Gauss's Law
  • 22 Electric Potential
  • 23 Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors
  • 24 Electric Current
  • 25 Electric Circuits
  • 26 Magnetism: Force and Field
  • 27 Electromagnetic Induction
  • 28 Alternating-current Circuits
  • 29 Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
  • 30 Reflection and Refraction
  • 31 Images and Optical Instruments
  • 32 Interference and Diffraction
  • 33 Relativity
  • 34 Particles and Waves
  • 35 Quantum Mechanics
  • 36 Atomic Physics
  • 37 Molecules and Solids
  • 38 Nuclear Physics
  • 39 From Quarks to the Cosmos

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