Tipler covers all the physics taught during the first months of a degree in physical sciences and engineering sciences. The detailed and understandable explanations, along with numerous calculation examples, tips, and methods, make this book a popular companion throughout your studies. Additionally, exercises for practice at the end of each chapter at various difficulty levels, as well as an intensive review course of essential mathematical fundamentals, help ensure success in lectures, seminars, and exams.

The new edition offers practice examples with a step-by-step, applied introduction to the MATLAB program, which is used as a tool in many physics and engineering courses.

Tipler is especially suitable for readers who have only taken basic physics courses in school or who dropped out early—now needing to quickly cover fundamental concepts and relationships.

Whether physics is your major or minor—Tipler provides everything in one book:

• Clear, understandable presentation of physics content
• Over 480 step-by-step solved examples and problems
• Useful tips and tricks to avoid common mistakes
• Concise reviews with the most important laws and formulas
• Illustrated and clean graphics
• Consistently colorful and color-coded layout
• Short contributions from researchers illustrating current topics in the field

Service for instructors: All book graphics available for download on DozentenPLUS.

Contents:

• Mechanics - Vibrations and Waves
• Thermodynamics
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Optics
• Theory of Relativity
• Quantum Mechanics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Solid State Physics
• Nuclear and Particle Physics