Designed for undergraduate courses in science and engineering, this text emphasizes the conceptual unity of physics while providing a solid approach to helping students to solve problems. Skills are developed through end-of-chapter problems and a number of pedagogical aids, including "tips" boxes, in-chapter exercises, references within examples to related problems found at the ends of chapters, "strategy" boxes, extended summaries, paired problems to strengthen problem-solving skills, and cumulative problems to integrate concepts across several chapters. Photographs and line illustrations are included to assist students in visualizing concepts. This text also has a bookmark listing important formulae and an index to the padagogical use of colour found throughout the book.

Physics for Scientists and Engineers, with Modern Physics

Science & Math

Richard Wolfson

Physics

Harpercollins College Div

"Nuclear Choices" aims to provide students who have no particular background in science with a sense of the many issues surrounding nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear medicine, and other uses of technology. The text is designed for subsidiary courses on nuclear issues. Throughout the book, technological questions are integrated with their implications for public policy, environmental protection, arms control and other international issues, and the relation between nuclear power and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The text is based on a course the author taught for three years at Middlebury College. The book examines nuclear issues that have appeared in recent news media. Each chapter has a summary reviewing the main topics and restating both sides of any significant controversies, and each also has a glossary of technical terms and acronyms.

Nuclear Choices: Citizen's Guide

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

McGraw=Hill

Essential University Physics, Volume 2

Pearson Education US

Essential University Physics, Volume 1

The benefits of nuclear technology are real. So are the dangers. In "Nuclear Choices, physicist Richard Wolfson provides citizens with the background they need to make informed choices about the nuclear technologies that provide a substantial portion of our electrical energy, help airlines detect terrorists' bombs, and enhance the diagnosis and treatment of disease, but tha have also produced the devastation of Hiroshima and the accidents at Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl.Wolfson introduces the concepts needed to evaluate the claims of proponents and opponents of the various nuclear technologies. He clearly and concisely explains the basics of nuclear energy and radiation, nuclear power (electricity, reactors, nuclear waste, and alternatives to nuclear fission), and nuclear weapons (their history, technology, effects, delivery systems, strategy, and control), and he invites readers to make their own judgments on controversial nuclear issues.By covering essentially all nuclear technologies in one book, Wolfson stresses the connections among them - especially the multifaceted relationship between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. To aid those seeking a deeper understanding of individual nuclear technologies and the associated issues, each chapter includes a brief summary of the main ideas, a glossary, and a list of further readings.Richard Wolfson is Professor of Physics at Middlebury College.

Nuclear choices: A citizen's guide to nuclear technology (New liberal arts series)

MIT Press]

The benefits of nuclear technology are real. So are the dangers. In Nuclear Choices, physicist Richard Wolfson provides the background needed to make informed choices about nuclear technologies, introducing concepts that can be used for evaluating the claims of both proponents and opponents. Wolfson clearly and concisely explains the basics of nuclear energy, radiation, and nuclear power (electricity, reactors, nuclear waste, and alternatives to nuclear fission). For this edition he has completely revised the chapter on nuclear weapons (their history, technology, effects, delivery systems, strategy, and control). Readers are encouraged to make their own judgments on controversial nuclear issues.

Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Technology (New Liberal Arts Series)

Business & Money

Economics

Solutions to Selected Problems From Physics

Instructor's Solutions Manual (Physics for Scientists and Engineers)

GINSBERG

Jay Pasachoff

Addison-Wesley

Essential University Physics

Pearson/Education

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