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Modern Introductory Physics (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2010)
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Modern Introductory Physics (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2010)
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Thisbookgrewoutof anongoing e?orttomodernizeColgate University's
three-term, introductory, calculus-level physicscourse.
Thebookisforthe ?rst term of this course and is intended to help
?rst-year college students make a good transition from high-school
physics to university physics. Thebookconcentrates
onthephysicsthatexplainswhywebelievethat atoms exist and have the
properties we ascribe to them. This story line, which motivates
much of our professional research, has helped us limit the material
presented to a more humane and more realistic amount than is
presented in many beginning university physics courses. The theme
of atoms also supports the presentation of more non-Newtonian
topics and ideas than is customary in the ?rst term of
calculus-level physics. We think it is important and desirable to
introduce students sooner than usual to some of the major ideas
that shape contemporary physicists' views of the nature and
behavior of matter. Here in the second decade of the twenty-?rst
century such a goal seems particularly appropriate. The quantum
nature of atoms and light and the mysteries associated with quantum
behavior clearly interest our students. By adding and - phasizing
more modern content, we seek not only to present some of the
physics that engages contemporary physicists but also to attract
students to take more physics. Only a few of our beginning physics
students come to us sharply focused on physics or astronomy. Nearly
all of them, h- ever, have taken physics in high school and found
it interesting.
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