As the most widely adopted new physics text in more than 50 years, Knight’s Physics for Scientists and Engineers was published to widespread critical acclaim from professors and students. In this eagerly awaited second edition, Knight builds on the research-proven instructional techniques he introduced, as well as national data of student performance, to take student learning even further. Knight’s unparalleled insight into student learning difficulties, and his impeccably skillful crafting of text and figures at every level – from macro to micro – to address these difficulties, results in a uniquely effective and accessible book, leading students to a deeper and better-connected understanding of the concepts and more proficient problem-solving skills.   Building on an NSF-sponsored educational research program and input from tens of thousands of student users, the second edition refines and extends the pedagogical innovations that years of use has now shown to be effective. Unprecedented analysis of national student metadata has allowed every problem to be systematically enhanced for educational effectives, and to ensure problem sets of ideal topic coverage, balance of qualitative and quantitative problems, and range of difficulty and duration.   The second edition comes with the latest edition of MasteringPhysics™- the most advanced, educationally effective (as shown by gains in student exams scores and independent tests), and widely used online physics tutorial and homework system in the world. It provides the largest library of research-based tutorials and textbook problems available, and automatic grading of activities as wide ranging as numerical problems with randomized values and algebraic answers to free-hand drawn graphs and free-body diagrams.

Table of Contents:
Part I Newton's Laws 1. Concepts of Motion 2. Kinematics in One Dimension 3. Vectors and Coordinate Systems 4. Kinematics in Two Dimensions 5. Force and Motion 6. Dynamics I: Motion Along a Line 7. Dynamics II: Interacting Objects 8. Dynamics III: Motion in a Plane   Part II Conservation Laws 9. Impulse and Momentum 10. Energy 11. Work   Part III Applications of Newtonian Mechanics 12. Rotation of a Rigid Body 13. Newton's Theory of Gravity 14. Oscillations 15. Fluids and Elasticity   Part IV Thermodynamics 16. A Macroscopic Description of Matter 17. Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics 18. The Micro/Macro Connection 19. Heat Engines and Refrigerators   Part V Waves and Optics 20.  Traveling Waves 21.  Superposition 22.  Wave Optics 23.  Ray Optics 24.  Optical Instruments 25.  Modern Optics and Matter Waves   Part VI Electricity and Magnetism 26.   Electric Charges and Forces 27.   The Electric Field 28.   Gauss's Law 29.   The Electric Potential 30.   Potential and Field 31.   Current and Conductivity 32.   Fundamentals of Circuits 33.   The Magnetic Field 34.   Electromagnetic Induction 35.   Electromagnetic Fields and Waves 36.   AC Circuits   Part VII Relativity and Quantum Physics 37.   Relativity 38.   The End of Classical Physics 39.   Quantization 40.   Wave Functions and Probabilities 41.   One-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics 42.   Atomic Physics 43.   Nuclear Physics