Matter and Interactions, Volume 1

Matter and Interactions offers a modern curriculum for introductory physics (calculus-based). It presents physics the way practicing physicists view their discipline while integrating 20th Century physics and computational physics. The text emphasizes the small number of fundamental principles that underlie the behavior of matter, and models that can explain and predict a wide variety of physical phenomena. Matter and Interactions will be available as a single volume hardcover text and also two paperback volumes.

Volume One includes chapters 1-12. 1 Interactions and Motion

2 The Momentum Principle

3 The Fundamental Interactions

4 Contact Interactions

5 Determining Forces from Motion

6 The Energy Principle

7 Internal Energy

8 Energy Quantization

9 Translational, Rotational, and Vibrational Energy

10 Collisions

11 Angular Momentum

12 Entropy: Limits on the Possible

The Supplements can be found at the web site, www.wiley.com/college/chabay

Supplement S1 Gases and Heat Engines S1-1

Supplement S2 Semiconductor Devices S2-1

Supplement S3 Waves S3-1

Dr. Ruth W. Chabay is Professor in the department of physics at North Carolina State University. She is a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers.