Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics, 4th Edition

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Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for Mastering Physics (available for Fall 2020 classes)

• UPDATED - Dynamic Study Modules are now specific to Physics for Scientists and Engineers. The assignable modules pose a series of question sets about a course topic. The questions adapt to each student’s performance and offer personalized, targeted feedback to help them master key concepts. As a result, students build the confidence they need to deepen their understanding, participate meaningfully, and perform better – in and out of class. Students can use their computer or the MyLab and Mastering app to access Dynamic Study Modules. Available for select titles. 
• NEW - Ready-to-Go Study Tools in the Mastering Physics Study Area help students master the toughest topics (as identified by professors and fellow students completing homework and practicing for exams). Key Concept Videos, Interactive Worked Examples, and problem sets with answer-specific feedback are all-in-one and easy-to-navigate to keep students focused and give them the scaffolded support needed to succeed. Students can use Ready-to-Go Study Tools on their own, even when their professor doesn’t assign the modules.
• NEW - 10 Prelecture Reading Questions per chapter, created by author Randall Knight, provide students with wrong-answer specific feedback and can be assigned in Mastering Physics. 
• NEW - 25 Video Tutor Solutions for Physics for Scientists and Engineers are assignable in Mastering Physics. 

Hallmark features of Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics 

Build problem-solving skills and confidence

• Model boxes enhance the text’s emphasis on modeling–analyzing a complex, real-world situation in terms of simple but reasonable idealizations that can be applied over and over in solving problems. These fundamental simplifications are developed in the text and then deployed more explicitly in the worked examples, helping students to recognize when and how to use recurring models (such as motion with constant acceleration or the photon model of light).
  
• A consistent 4-step approach provides a problem-solving framework throughout the book. Detailed problem-solving strategies for different topics and categories of problems are developed, each one built on the 4-step framework. Tactics Boxes give step-by-step procedures for developing specific skills (drawing free-body diagrams, using ray tracing, etc.).
  
• Worked examples follow the 4-step strategy and include careful explanations of the underlying, and often unstated, reasoning.
  

Promote a deeper and better-connected understanding

• Enhanced Chapter Previews address the questions students are most likely to ask themselves while studying the material for the first time. Questions cover the important ideas, and provide a big-picture overview of the chapter’s key principles.
  
• Looking Back Pointers enable students to look back at a previous chapter when it’s important to review concepts. Pointers provide the specific section to consult at the exact point in the text where they need to use this material.
  
• Visual chapter summaries consolidate understanding by providing each concept in words, math, and figures and organizing these into a vertical hierarchy–from General Principles (top) to Applications (bottom).
  

Gain knowledge in a variety of physics topics

• Advanced topics as optional sections further expands instructors’ options. Topics include rocket propulsion, gyroscopes and precession, the wave equation (including for electromagnetic waves), the speed of sound in gases, and more details on the interference of light.
  
• Tactics Boxes give step-by-step procedures for developing specific skills (drawing free-body diagrams, using ray tracing, etc.).
  

Hallmark features of Mastering Physics. Learn more about Mastering Physics.

Teach your course your way: 

• With Learning Catalytics, you’ll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops.  You can monitor responses with real-time analytics and find out what your students do – and don’t – understand. Then, you can adjust your teaching accordingly and even facilitate peer-to-peer learning, helping students stay motivated and engaged. 
  
• Adaptive Follow-Up Assignments are based on each student's past performance on their course work to date, including homework, tests, and quizzes. These provide additional coaching and targeted practice as needed, so students can master the material. 
  
• Prelecture Reading Questions check students’ familiarity with key concepts, prompting them to do their assigned reading before class. Additional open-ended questions help students identify the topics they found most difficult and assist instructors with “just-in-time” teaching.
  

Empower each learner:

• Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering. It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place–even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. 
  
• Prep questions aligned with the 2015 MCAT exam are based on the Foundational Concepts and Content Categories outlined by the Association of American Medical Colleges. This blend of 140 new passage problems and physics problems in a biology context are assignable in Mastering Physics. 
  
• Interactive Prelecture Videos provide an introduction to key topics with embedded assessment to help students prepare before lecture and to help professors identify student misconceptions. Animated whiteboard prelecture videos specific to Physics for Scientists and Engineers are expanded to provide two semesters of content for instructors who teach an active classroom.
  
• NEW - Quantitative Pre-lecture Videos now complement the conceptual Interactive Prelecture Videos designed to expose students to concepts before class and help them learn how problems for a specific concept are worked.
  
• Direct Measurement Videos are short videos that show real situations of physical phenomena. Grids, rulers, and frame counters appear as overlays, helping students to make precise measurements of quantities such as position and time. Students then apply these quantities along with physics concepts to solve problems and answer questions about the motion of the objects in the video. The problems are assignable in Mastering and can be used to replace or supplement traditional word problems, and they can serve as open-ended questions to help develop problem-solving skills.
  
• The 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 or 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.
  
• PhET simulations are interactive tools in Mastering Physics that help students make connections between real-life phenomena and the underlying physics.
  

Deliver trusted content:

• Video Tutor Solutions and Video Tutor Demonstrations tie directly to relevant content in the textbook and can be accessed through Mastering Physics or from links in the eText. 
  
• Video Tutor Solutions (VTS) walk students through the problem-solving process, provide links to relevant content in the text, and can be accessed using embedded links in the eText. Select VTSs are provided as optional links in related EOC problems, as well as in the Study Area of Mastering Physics.
  
• Video Tutor Demonstrations (VTDs) feature "pause-and-predict" demonstrations of key physics concepts and incorporate assessment to engage students in understanding key concepts. New VTDs build on the existing collection, adding new topics for a more robust set of demonstrations.
  

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