Matter & Interactions

Discussion group

Adopters can join an online Matter & Interactions discussion group (an email list).

What's new in the 3rd edition

Here is a detailed summary of the important changes in the 3rd edition.

Resources for adopters available from the publisher

There are extensive instructor resources created by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood for the 3rd edition of the Matter & Interactions textbook. They include:

• Lecture Notes: annotated to show where specific clicker questions or VPython computer programs were invoked.
• Videos of lectures (see below): QuickTime videos of Ruth Chabay's lectures on mechanics and Matthew Kohlmyer's lectures on E&M. Instructors have found these useful for getting ideas and a sense of pacing.
• Labs: Lab activities used during Spring 2010 at NCSU. Activities include experiments, writing computational physics programs, and working large problems on whiteboards.
• Lecture Demo Programs: VPython programs used as lecture demos.
• Test questions: organized by chapter.
• Video demos: Useful in lecture.
• Clicker Questions: Word and pdf files of questions posed to students in lecture; students respond with electronic response units. Each file contains questions for one chapter, and the questions are numbered to correspond with the section of the chapter for which the question is appropriate.
• WebAssign:A large suite of homework problems designed and coded by the authors is available in the WebAssign online homework system.
• Textbook diagrams: Figures from the textbook in jpg format.
• There is also a solutions manual for instructors, written by Aaron Titus and Joe Heafner.

Please contact Ruth Chabay or Bruce Sherwood for information on how to obtain these instructor resources.

Videos of Matter & Interactions lectures

Modern Mechanics, presented by Ruth Chabay

Electric & Magnetic Interactions, presented by Matthew Kohlmyer

More on computational modeling activities

Computational modeling activities from Spring 2010 at NCSU are available in the Compadre physics collection. These writeups incorporate recent research and development carried out by Ruth Chabay and some of her Physics Education Research graduate students on how best to teach computational modeling in the intro physics course. In this context, two of the students have created short videos to show key concepts in VPython:

   http://www.youtube.com/vpythonvideos

Textbook ordering Information

The way Wiley's ordering system works, it is essential to specify the following ISBN data when requesting review copies from Wiley reps or when placing an order:

3rd edition Volume 1 (paperback) ISBN: 978-0-470-50345-4
3rd edition Volume 2 (paperback) ISBN: 978-0-470-50346-1
3rd edition complete in one volume (hardbound) ISBN: 978-0-470-50347-8
There are also loose-leaf versions, to be placed in 3-ring binders.
An ebook version is available through WebAssign and CourseSmart.

The textbook is available from a number of sources, including direct from the publisher: Go to http://www.wiley.com/college/chabay.

Table of contents, 3rd edition, volume 1: Modern Mechanics

1. Interactions and Motion
2. The Momentum Principle
3. The Fundamental Interactions
4. Contact Interactions
5. Rate of Change of Momentum
6. The Energy Principle
7. Internal Energy
8. Energy Quantization
9. Multiparticle Systems
10. Collisions
11. Angular Momentum
12. Entropy: Limits on the Possible
13. Gases and Engines

Table of contents, 3rd edition, volume 2: Electric & Magnetic Interactions

14. Electric Field
15. Electric Fields and Matter
16. Electric Field of Distributed Charges
17. Electric Potential
18. Magnetic Field
19. Electric Field and Circuits
20. Circuit Elements
21. Magnetic Force
22. Patterns of Field in Space
23. Faraday's Law
24. Electromagnetic Radiation
25. Waves and Particles