Resources for instructors
Discussion group and wiki
Adopters can join an online Matter & Interactions discussion group. There is also a wiki for adopters. If you are a physics instructor and would like access to the wiki, write to Joe Heafner ( ) or Aaron Titus ( ).
Resources for adopters available from the publisher
From the following page, choose the link to go to the Wiley Instructor Companion Site:
The following materials were created by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood and contain the following components for the 2nd edition (work is underway to update these to match the 3rd edition; the WebAssign questions have already been updated):
- Annotated course calendar: With cross references to other resources.
- Lecture Notes: annotated to show where specific clicker questions or VPython computer programs were invoked.
- Videos of lectures: RealPlayer videos of Ruth Chabay's lectures on mechanics and E&M. Instructors have found these useful for getting ideas and a sense of pacing.
- Labs: Lab activities used during Spring 2007 at NCSU. Activities include experiments, writing computational physics programs, and working large problems on whiteboards. At compadre.org are writeups for all VPython computational physics activities developed so far for the Matter & Interactions curriculum, not just those used in Spring 2007.
- Lecture Demo Programs: VPython programs used as lecture demos.
- Test questions: organized by chapter.
- Web Site: A copy of the NCSU web site for the Spring 2007 mechanics course. Only registered students had access to materials in the "wrap" directory.
- 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.
- Solutions: for selected end-of-chapter homework problems.
- WebAssign: Most of the exercises and many of the major homework problems in both volumes of Matter & Interactions are available in the WebAssign online homework system. The instructor resources include a catalog of WebAssign materials for the 2nd edition of the textbook, including assignment ID numbers and pdf's of questions.
- Textbook diagrams: Figures from the textbook in jpg format.
More on computational modeling activities
Computational
modeling activities from Spring 2007 at NCSU are available
in the Compadre physics collection. These writeups give a good sense
of what has been done at NCSU, but this is an area of active research
and development -- how best to incorporate computational modeling in
intro physics. As part of this effort, two of Ruth Chabay's Physics Education
Research graduate students are creating short videos to show key concepts
in VPython. This is a work in progress, just started. See
http://www.youtube.com/vpythonvideos
Homework correlations between 2nd and 3rd editions
Here is a zipped spreadsheet that
provides correlations for homework problems
between the 2nd and 3rd editions. At the moment it is complete only through
Chapter 19 (old Chapter 18).
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 www.wiley.com and search for "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
