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 College Physics is the first text to use an investigative learning approach to teach introductory physics. This approach encourages you to take an active role in learning physics, to practice  scientific skills such as observing, analyzing, and testing, and to build scientific habits of mind. The authors believe students learn physics best by doing physics.

I. Introducing Physics

1. Kinematics: Motion in One Dimension

2. Newtonian Mechanics

3. Applying Newton’s Laws

4. Circular Motion

5. Impulse and Linear Momentum

6. Work and Energy

7. Extended Bodies at Rest

8. Rotational Motion

9. Gases

10. Static Fluids

11. Fluids in Motion

12. First Law of Thermodynamics

13. Second Law of Thermodynamics

14. Electric Charge, Force, and Energy

15. The Electric Field

16. DC Circuits

17. Magnetism

18. Electromagnetic Induction

19. Vibrational Motion

20. Mechanical Waves

21. Reflection and Refraction

22. Mirrors and Lenses

23. Wave Optics

24. Electromagnetic Waves

25. Special Relativity

26. Quantum Optics

27. Atomic Physics

28. Nuclear Physics

29. Particle Physics

Eugenia Etkina has a PhD in Physics Education from Moscow State Pedagogical University and has more than 30 years experience teaching physics. She currently teaches at Rutgers University, where she received the highest teaching award in 2010 and the New Jersey Distinguished Faculty award in 2012. Professor Etkina designed and now coordinates one of the largest programs in physics teacher preparation in the United States, conducts professional development for high school and university physics instructors, and participates in reforms to the undergraduate physics courses. In 1993 she developed a system in which students learn physics using processes that mirror scientific practice. That system serves as the basis for this textbook. Since 2000, Professors Etkina and Van Heuvelen have conducted over 60 workshops for physics instructors and co-authored The Physics Active Learning Guide (a companion edition to College Physics will be available from Pearson in January, 2013). Professor Etkina is a dedicated teacher and an active researcher who has published over 40 peer-refereed articles.

Michael Gentile is an Instructor of Physics at Rutgers University. He has a masters degree in physics from Rutgers University, where he studied under Eugenia Etkina and Alan Van Heuvelen, and has also completed postgraduate work in education, high energy physics, and cosmology. He has been inspiring undergraduates to learn and enjoy physics for more than 15 years. Since 2006 Professor Gentile has taught and coordinated a large-enrollment introductory physics course at Rutgers where the approach used in this book is fully implemented. He also assists in the mentoring of future physics teachers by using his course as a nurturing environment for their first teaching experiences. Since 2007 his physics course for the New Jersey Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology has been highly popular and has brought the wonders of modern physics to more tha

An active learning approach encourages students to construct an understanding of physics concepts and laws in the same ways that physicists acquire knowledge. Students learn physics by doing physics.

• Observational Experiment Tables and Testing Experiment Tables direct students to explore science through active discovery. Students make observations, analyze data, identify patterns, test hypotheses, and predict outcomes.
• Videos, accessed by QR codes in the text or through MasteringPhysics^®, accompany nearly every Observational Experiment Table and Testing Experiment Table. Students can observe the exact experiment described in the tables.
• Worked Examples, Conceptual Exercises, Quantitative Exercises, and Problem-Solving Strategies build higher-level scientific skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and experimental design.
• The Active Learning Guide, which is organized in parallel with the textbook’s chapters, supplements the knowledge-building approach of the textbook with activities that provide opportunities for further observation, testing, sketching, and analysis. The Active Learning Guide can be used in class for individual or group work or assigned as homework.

Students learn to represent physical phenomena in multiple ways using words, figures, and equations, including qualitative diagrams and innovativebar charts that create a foundation for quantitative reasoning and problem solving.

• Qualitative-first system develops conceptual understanding.
• Worked examples use the multiple representations approach to teach students how to solve complex physics problems. Students translate a problem statement into the language of physics, sketch and diagram the problem, represent it mathematically, solve the problem, and evaluate the result.
• Reasoning skills boxes f