Discussion Group

Adopters of Matter & Interactions may join an online discussion group.  (Typically around 10-15 posts per month.)

Resources Available at the Instructor Site

If you are teaching a course in which students use  Matter & Interactions, you may register at the Instructor Site to get access to the following resources:

Videos

Annotated videos of segments of lectures by Ruth Chabay on Volume 1 (Mechanics and Thermo)  and Volume 2 (E&M and Waves).  Many instructors have found these useful for getting a sense of pace and level of presentation.  Public versions of these videos are available on the Student site.

Computational Lab Activities

Trinket® courses containing computational modeling projects tied to the course sequence.

Lab Activities

Lab experiments updated for the 4th edition.  LaTeX files are provided to allow instructors to revise and extend these activities.

Lecture-Demo Programs

Public and private VPython programs useful as lecture demos. The public programs are also available on the student web site. A convenient feature is that you can run these VPython programs in the browser at the instructor site using Web VPython (webvpython.org).

Clicker / Plicker Questions

Multiple choice questions for in-class use are available to adopters through WileyPLUS.

Test Questions

A computer test bank created by Aaron Titus is available to adopters of the 5th Edition through WileyPLUS.  An older archive of pencil and paper questions is available on the instructor site in LaTeX and pdf.

Solutions Manual

The instructor solutions manual was written by Aaron Titus and Joe Heafner.  There is also a student solutions manual with solutions to selected odd-numbered problems, available to students from Wiley.

Online Homework

All problems in the 5th Edition of Matter & Interactions , plus several hundred additional problems, are available in WileyPLUS.