Prelude to Physics
Clifford E. Swartz(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 17. February 1983
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-0-471-06028-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is an "impedance match" between high school math and science, and university physics-with-calculus at the level of Halliday-Resnick. It is for students who have done reasonably well in the standard high school courses but who need practice with the applications of quantitative methods. The topics covered are those fundamental skills and techniques that are most needed and assumed in introductory physics, but that many students do not have. Students who have taken a course based on this book have established a good record of doing well in their subsequent physics course.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 220 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-06028-4 (9780471060284)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Partial table of contents:; How to Write Numbers, Large or Small.; Precision and Error.; The Simple Measurement of Time.; Some General Comments on Graphs.; Geometry and Diagrams.; Force and Newton's Second Law.; Momentum.; The Sinusoidal Function: y = A sintheta.; Logarithms: y -- log "/SUBa x.; Appendixes.; Index.