This book on Principles of Physics is intended to serve fundamental college
courses in scientific curricula.
Physics is one of the most important tools to aid undergraduates, graduates, and
researchers in their technical felds of study. Without it many phenomena cannot
be described, studied, or understood. The topics covered here will help students
interpret such phenomena, ultimately allowing them to advance in the applied
aspects of their felds.
The goal of this text is to present many key concepts in a clear and concise, yet
interesting way, making use of practical examples and attractively colored illustrations
whenever appropriate to satisfy the needs of today’s science and engineering students.
Some of the examples, proofs, and subsections in this textbook have been identifed
as optional and are preceded with an asterisk *. For less intensive courses these optional
portions may be omitted without significantly impacting the objectives of the chapter.
Additional material may also be omitted depending on the course’s requirements.
The 1rst author taught the material of this book in many universities in the
Middle East for almost four decades. Depending on the university, he leveraged
different international textbooks, resources, and references. These used different
approaches, but were mainly written in an expansive manner delivering a plethora
of topics while targeting students who wanted to dive deeply into the subject
matter. In this textbook, however, the authors introduce a large subset of these
topics but in a more simpli?ed manner, with the intent of delivering these topics
and their key facts to students all over the world and in particular to students in the
Middle East and neighboring regions where English may not be the native language.
The second author went over the entire text with the background of study
and/or teaching at Caltech, UC Berkeley, and Yale.
Instructors teaching from this textbook will be able to gain online access from
the publisher to the solutions manual, which provides step-by-step solutions to all
exercises contained in the book. The solutions manual also contains many tips,
colored illustrations, and explanations on how the solutions were derived.