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Philip W. Adams is a Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers University in 1986 and then held a postdoctoral research position at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ for two years. He joined the faculty of LSU 1988 and has since become an internationally recognized low temperature experimentalist and has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has given many invited presentations on his work at international workshops and conferences on superconductivity and other topics in low temperature condensed matter physics.
Dr. Adams has had a career-long interest in physics education. He has taught introductory physics for engineers and for non-engineers many times in his 30-year tenure at LSU and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
IN MEMORIAM: HUGH YOUNG (1930–2013)
Hugh D. Young was Emeritus Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. He also had two visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Young’s career was centered entirely on undergraduate education. He wrote several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a coauthor with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky of their well-known introductory texts University Physics and College Physics.
Dr. Young earned a bachelor’s degree in organ performance from Carnegie Mellon in 1972 and spent several years as Associate Organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh. We at Pearson appreciated his professionalism, good nature, and collaboration. He will be missed.
0 Mathematics Review
MECHANICS
1 Models, Measurements, and Vectors
2 Motion Along a Straight Line
3 Motion in a Plane
4 Newton’s Laws of Motion
5 Applications of Newton’s Laws
6 Circular Motion and Gravitation
7 Work and Energy
8 Momentum
9 Rotational Motion
10 Dynamics of Rotational Motion
PERIODIC MOTION, WAVES, AND FLUIDS
11 Elasticity and Periodic Motion
12 Mechanical Waves and Sound
13 Fluid Mechanics
THERMODYNAMICS
14 Temperature and Heat
15 Thermal Properties of Matter
16 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
17 Electric Charge and Electric Field
18 Electric Potential and Capacitance
19 Current, Resistance, and Direct-Current Circuits
20 Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces
21 Electromagnetic Induction
22 Alternating Current
23 Electromagnetic Waves
LIGHT AND OPTICS
24 Geometric Optics
25 Optical Instruments
26 Interference and Diffraction
MODERN PHYSICS
27 Relativity
28 Photons, Electrons, and Atoms
29 Atoms, Molecules, and Solids
30 Nuclear and High-Energy Physics
APPENDICES
A The International System of Units
B The Greek Alphabet
C Periodic Table of the Elements
D Unit Conversion Factors
E Numerical Constants
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems
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