A broad and thorough introduction to physics, this new edition maintains its highly respected, traditional approach while implementing some new solutions to student difficulties.

The emphasis in this text is on the physicist's approach to understanding nature and the importance of model building to set up the correct analysis of the problems. This edition includes material based on latest research.

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The text's rich problem sets--developed and refined over six decades--are upgraded to include larger numbers of problems that are biomedically oriented or require calculus.

This edition draws on insights from several users to help you see patterns and make connections between problem types rather than simply plugging values into an equation.

The text's rich problem sets-developed and refined over six decades-are upgraded to include larger numbers of problems that are biomedically oriented or require calculus.