TestGen Computerized Test Bank (Download Only) for College Physics: Explore and Apply, 2nd Edition

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Mastering is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and often improves results for each student. With Learning Catalytics instructors can expand on key concepts and encourage student engagement during lecture through questions answered individually or in pairs and groups. Mastering Physicsnow provides students with the new Physics Primer for remediation of math skills needed in the college physics course. Learn more about Mastering Physics.

• New - Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules created for and by instructors model effective teaching strategies. The modules incorporate the best that the text, Mastering Physics, and Learning Catalytics have to offer and guide instructors through using these resources in the most effective way. The modules can be accessed through the Instructor Resources area of Mastering Physics and offer corresponding, customizable pre-built assignments. Watch our video to learn about Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules.

Build a basic understanding of physics principles and math skills before lecture

• New - Physics Primer relies on videos, hints, and feedback to refresh students' math skills in the context of physics and prepares them for success in the course. These tutorials can be assigned before the course begins as well as throughout the course as just-in-time remediation. They ensure students practice and maintain their math skills, while tying together mathematical operations and physics analysis.
• Dynamic Study Modules (DSMs) help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time and adapting to their level of understanding.
  • The content focuses on definitions, units, and the key relationships for topics across all of mechanics and electricity and magnetism. Additional early modules cover basic math, algebra, scientific notation, and other background topics, which are available as graded assignments.

Show connections between physics and the real world as students learn to apply physics concepts via enhanced media

• New - Digitally Enhanced Observational Experiment Tables and Testing Experiment Tables now include embedded videos in the Pearson eText for an interactive experience. Accompanying questions are available in Mastering to build skills essential to success in physics.
• PhET simulations are interactive tools in Mastering Physics that help students make connections between real-life phenomena and the underlying physics.
• Expanded and Enhanced - End-of-chapter questions have undergone careful analysis using Mastering Physics usage datatoprovide fine-tuned difficulty ratings and produce a more varied, useful, and robust set of End-of-chapter problems. All End-of-chapter problems can be assigned in Mastering Physics.
• Prep questions aligned with the new 2015 MCAT exam are based on the Foundational Concepts and Content Categories outlined by the Association of American Medical Colleges. This blend of passage problems and physics problems in a biology context are assignable in Mastering Physics.

Give students fingertip access to interactive tools

• Pearson eText optimized for mobile seamlessly integrates videos and other rich media with the text andgives students access to their textbook anytime, anywhere. Pearson eText is available with Mastering Physics when packaged with new books, or as an upgrade students can purchase online. Pearson eText mobile app offers:
• Offline access on most iOS and Android phones/tablets
• Accessible (screen-reader ready)
• Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode
• Instructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search tool
• Embedded videos for a more interactive learning experience
• Updated - Learning Catalytics helps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. Learning Catalytics acts as a student response tool that uses students' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
• NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck for easy creation of slide questions.
• NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.
• Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
• Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
• Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
• Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.

About the Book

A unique active learning approach promotes deep and lasting conceptual understanding of physics and the scientific process

• Updated - Observational Experiment Tables and Testing Experiment Tables encourage students to become accountable for learning physics as they make observations, analyze data, identify patterns, test hypotheses, and predict outcomes. Redesigned for clarity in the 2nd Edition, these tables encourage students to explore science through active discovery and critical thinking, constructing robust conceptual understanding.
• A Qualitative-first System develops conceptual understanding by first introducing concepts in action in the real world, followed by vocabulary and quantitative reasoning.
• Expanded - Experiment videos and photos created by the authors enhance the active learning approach. Approximately 150 photos and 40 videos have been added to the textbook, as well as embedded in the Pearson etext, and scores more in the Active Learning Guide (ALG).

A wealth of practical and consistent guidance, examples, and opportunities for practice help develop confidence and higher-level reasoning skills

• A Four-step Problem-solving Approach in Worked Examples consistently uses multiple representations to teach students how to solve complex physics problems. Students follow the steps of Sketch & Translate, Simplify & Diagram, Represent Mathematically, Solve & Evaluate to translate a problem statement into the language of physics, sketch and diagram the problem, represent it mathematically, solve the problem, and evaluate the result.
• Expanded and New - Worked Examples, Conceptual Exercises, and Quantitative Exercises build higher-level scientific skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and experimental design. New Worked Examples and End-of-chapter problems focus on skills such as data analysis, evaluation, and argumentation.
• Problem-Solving Strategy Boxes for broad classes of problems use a unique two-column layout that pairs the general steps with a concrete example, further helping students apply a structured approach to solving any problem.
• Physics Tool Boxes focus on a particular skill, such as drawing a motion diagram, force diagram, or work-energy bar chart to help students master the key tools they will need throughout the course to analyze physics processes and solve problems, bridging real phenomena and mathematics.
• New - End-of-chapter problem types and 15% new questions and problems include multiple choice with multiple correct answers, find-a-pattern in data presented in a video or table, ranking tasks, evaluate statements/claims/explanations/measuring procedures, evaluate solutions, design a device or procedure that meets given criteria, and linearization problems. End-of-chapter problems have undergone careful analysis using Mastering Physics usage datatoprovide fine-tuned difficulty ratings and to produce a more varied, useful, and robust set of End-of-chapter problems.

A flexible learning system adapts to any method of instruction

• The Instructor's Guide provides key pedagogical principles of the textbook, elaborates on the implementation of the methodology used in the textbook, and offers guidance on how to integrate the approach into your course.
• New - Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules created for and by instructors model effective teaching strategies. The modules incorporate the best that the text, Mastering Physics, and Learning Catalytics have to offer and guide instructors through using these resources in the most effective way. The modules can be accessed through the Instructor Resources area of Mastering Physics and offer corresponding, customizable pre-built assignments.
• Revised - The Active Learning Guide aligns with the textbook's chapters and supplements the knowledge-building approach of the textbook with activities that provide opportunities for further observation, testing, sketching, and analysis as well as collaboration, scientific reasoning, and argumentation. The Active Learning Guide is now better integrated with the text and can be used in class for individual or group work or assigned as homework. Now available via download in the Mastering Instructor Resource Center and customizable in print form via Pearson Collections.

Pedagogically-driven design and content changes enhance ease-of-use for students and instructors alike

• New, Revised, and Expanded -Topics provide instructors greater choice and include capacitors, AC circuits, LEDs, friction, 2D collisions, energy, bar charts for rotational momentum and nuclear energy, ideal-gas processes, thermodynamic engines, semiconductors, velocity selectors, spacetime diagrams in Special Relativity.
• New - Integration of vector arithmetic into early chapters helps students develop vector-related skills in the context of learning physics.
• New - Earlier placement of waves and oscillations allows instructors to teach these topics with mechanics if preferred. Coverage with optics is also possible.
• New - A fresh and modern design provides a more transparent hierarchy of features and navigation structure, as well as an engaging chapter opener page and streamlined chapter summary. The result is a more user-friendly resource, both for learning and reference.
• Expanded - Introductory chapter, now Chapter 1, gives students a more detailed explanation of "How to use this book" to ensure they get the most out of the chapter features, use them actively, and learn how to think critically.
• Revised - Integration of applications throughout each chapter, rather than grouped in the Putting It All Together sections of the 1st Edition, optimizes student engagement and consolidates the explore-and-apply approach.
• Biological and medical examples throughout the text and End-of-chapter problems provide relevance for life science majors and include topics such as understanding the effect of radon on the lungs (Chapter 6), measuring the speed of blood flow (Chapter 11), and controlling body temperature (Chapter 15).
• Revised - Streamlined text, layout, and figures throughout the book enhance the focus on central themes and topics and eliminate extraneous detail, resulting in over 150 fewer pages than the 1st Edition and allowing students to study more efficiently.

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what's new in this edition.