College Physics, Global Edition

About our author 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.

• Mathematics ReviewMECHANICS Models, Measurements, and VectorsMotion Along a Straight LineMotion in a PlaneNewton's Laws of MotionApplications of Newton's LawsCircular Motion and GravitationWork and EnergyMomentumRotational MotionDynamics of Rotational MotionPERIODIC MOTION, WAVES, AND FLUIDS Elasticity and Periodic MotionMechanical Waves and SoundFluid MechanicsTHERMODYNAMICS Temperature and HeatThermal Properties of MatterThe Second Law of ThermodynamicsELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM Electric Charge and Electric FieldElectric Potential and CapacitanceCurrent, Resistance, and Direct-Current CircuitsMagnetic Field and Magnetic ForcesElectromagnetic InductionAlternating CurrentElectromagnetic WavesLIGHT AND OPTICS Geometric OpticsOptical InstrumentsInterference and DiffractionMODERN PHYSICS RelativityPhotons, Electrons, and AtomsAtoms, Molecules, and SolidsNulear and High-Energy PhysicsAPPENDICES A. The International System of UnitsB. The Greek AlphabetC. Periodic Table of the ElementsD. Unit Conversion FactorsE. Numerical ConstantsAnswers to Odd-Numbered Problems