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Physics Fundamentals by Dr Vincent Coletta - Wins   Mac PDF Format - 900 pages Shipped in 9 days Cat.# PCI-36 $ 90.00 ADD TO CART

Algebra-Based Introductory Physics Text on CD

Dr. Coletta's popular textbook is now available on CD! Physics Fundamentals by Vincent Coletta meets the needs of all algebra-trigonometry based college physics courses. It is also appropriate for advanced high school physics courses, AP physics courses, or as an additional text to a lower-level high school text that requires more substantive content and engaging problems.

In developing the text, Dr. Coletta conducted extensive student reviews and thorough class testing to ensure the text is understandable and interesting to a wide-range of students. Thousands of students used Physics Fundamentals in manuscript form, and peer review panels examined the material for clarity and accuracy. This extraordinary development effort has produced a text that is exceptional in its use of direct, concise language to convey ideas and its explanation of difficult concepts.

Chapters open with an overview of how physics concepts relate to topics of interest to students. Wherever possible, abstract physical concepts are introduced by appealing to common experiences that illustrate the concepts. Numerous applications of physics to biology, technology, sports, and everyday life are included throughout each chapter.

Derivations are sometimes integrated in the text and sometimes presented at the end of a section or chapter. This flexible organization allows the author to present the mathematical explanation at the most appropriate place to enhance student understanding, and ensures that a level of qualitative understanding has been reached before the mathematical foundations of the concept are introduced.

The art program is unsurpassed in a physics text. 1500 photographs and illustrations help clarify physics concepts for today's visual learners. Three-dimensional perspective drawings are used extensively throughout the text and illustrations often accompany examples.

Two kinds of essays are provided throughout the text: In Perspective historical essays and Closer Look essays that involve physical concepts or applications. The In Perspective essays are mainly short biographies of physicists who have made some of the most important discoveries in physics. They offer enough depth to humanize their subjects and sometimes to help understand what motivated their discoveries. The Closer Look essays are discussions of physical principles and applications that encourage the student to think about subjects likely to arouse interest.

• Text is comprised of 30 Chapters, 900 pages, and 1500 photographs and illustrations.
• Numerous applications of physics to biology, technology, and sports; illustrating the relevance and applicability of physics to students’ lives.
• Abstract physical concepts are introduced by appealing to common experiences that illustrate the concepts.
• Illustrated questions and problems allow students to visualize the situations described.
• Over 300 worked examples — a general problem solving strategy is outlined and then reinforced in the solution of examples throughout the book.
• 2000 end-of-chapter questions and problems. Many reviewers have praised the originality and effectiveness of the problems.
• 1,000 page Instructor’s Solution Manual in PDF format included on separate CD.

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Physics for Science and Engineering Students by Peter Nolan - Wins   Mac PDF Format - 1,200 pages Shipped in 9 days Cat.# PCI-37 $ 90.00 ADD TO CART

Calculus-Based Introductory Physics Text on CD

Physics for Science and Engineering Students by Peter Nolan provides a strong foundation in the principles of physics for students of science and engineering who are concurrently taking an introductory calculus course. The emphasis throughout the book is on clarity. The book starts out at a simple level, and gradually advances as students’ understanding and ability with calculus grows.

The book contains many of the intermediate steps that are often left out of derivations and example problems in many traditional textbooks. Students new to physics often find it difficult to follow derivations when the intermediate steps are left out. Dr. Nolan carefully and completely shows students each step, from start to finish.

Every worked example in the textbook is linked to an Interactive Example. The Interactive Examples allow the student to make variations to the example problem and immediately be provided with a detailed solution which includes all the in-between steps and calculations. This permits the student to solve the example problem many times over with different initial values, and also allows “what if” scenarios to be quickly performed; i.e., what if the angle, mass, or force were changed? This unique feature makes the book the first truly interactive physics textbook (Microsoft Excel must be installed on computer). Each chapter also contains Interactive Tutorials — a series of physics problems much like the Interactive Examples, but are more detailed and more generalized.

• Text is comprised of 38 Chapters, 1200 pages, and over 1000 photographs and illustrations.
• Contains a wealth of end-of-chapter questions and problems ranging in difficulty from very simple to very challenging. Problem sets are grouped according to the section where the topic is covered.
• A series of essays entitled Have you ever wondered? appear throughout the text discussing the application of physics to interesting areas such as meteorology, astronomy, aviation, space travel, health sciences, the environment, philosophy, and sports.
• A section called The Language of Physics, found at the end of each chapter, summarizes the most important ideas and definitions discussed in that chapter.

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Model ChemLab - Wins   Mac Student Version Shipped in 7 days Cat.# MS-1ST $ 80.00 ADD TO CART

Whether your challenge is to introduce new computer technology to your curriculum, or bring the lab experience to on-line students or a need for an alternative to dangerous, expensive or environmentally hazardous labs, then Model ChemLab is the classroom proven solution for you.

Model ChemLab originated from academic work in computer simulation and software design at McMaster University. It has continued to be developed with extensive input from educators interested in the possible application of computer simulations for classroom and distance learning.

Model ChemLab is a unique product incorporating both an interactive simulation and a lab notebook workspace with separate areas for theory, procedures and student observations. Commonly used lab equipment and procedures are used to simulate the steps involved in performing an experiment. Users step-through the actual lab procedure while interacting with animated equipment in a way that is similar to the real lab experience. ChemLab comes with a range of pre-designed lab experiments for general chemistry at the high school and college level. 

Users can expand upon the original lab set using ChemLab's LabWizard development tools, thus allowing for curriculum specific lab simulation development by educators. These user designed simulations combine both text based instructions and the simulation into a single distributable file.

ChemLab Design:

• Easy to use lab interface modelled on common lab procedure
• Student lab notebook workspace area
• Real time animated interactive simulation engine
• Lab Wizard tools for easy user created lab simulations
• Support for plug-in lab simulations extensions

Lab equipment:

• Beakers, Erlenmeyer and Florence flasks, test tubes, graduated cylinders, burets, eye dropper, pipets, watch glasses, filtering flask with buchner funnel, Bunsen burner, hot plate / Magnetic stirrer, stirring rods, evaporation dish, calorimeter, conductivity meter, potentiometer, Spectrophotometer and others…
• Balances: centigram, electronic and high sensitivity balance
• Distillation equipment set-up:  distillation flask with heating mantel, distillation head, condenser and distillation take-off

Common Lab Procedures:

• Titration, Decanting /pouring
• Heating and hot/cold water baths
• Temperature, weight, pH, conductivity, voltage and volume measurements
• Plot titration curves

Large selection of pre-defined labs simulations:

• Acid/base reactions, bond lab, cations reactions, electrochemistry, equilibrium, flame lab, fractional crystallization, fractional distillation, gravimetric analysis, kinetics, redox reactions, stoichiometry, thermal chemistry, volumetric analysis, water quality, weak acid titration and many more.

Lab Wizards (Professional Edition):

• Allow users to create customized lab simulations
• Lab Wizard steps users through process of new lab creation
• Single distributable file
• Expandable chemical database allows users to add new chemicals to ChemLab

Free updates from Model Science web site:

• Registered users can download updates and new Lab simulations from the Model Science web site.

Wide Range of Applications:

• Ideal for distance learning, demonstrations, lab run-throughs, pre-lab work, dangerous and environmentally hazardous, expensive, or lengthy labs.

Lab Wizards (Professional Edition):

• Allow users to create customized lab simulations
• Lab Wizard steps users through process of new lab creation
• Single distributable file
• Expandable chemical database allows users to add new chemicals to ChemLab

Free updates from Model Science web site:

• Registered users can download updates and new Lab simulations from the Model Science web site.

Wide Range of Applications:

• Ideal for distance learning, demonstrations, lab run-throughs, pre-lab work, dangerous and environmentally hazardous, expensive, or lengthy labs.