Konrad B. Krauskopf,
Late Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Arthur Beiser
ISBN: 0073512125 Copyright year: 2010
Feature Summary
Feature: NEW Chapter 4 entitled "Energy and the Future" has much newly added text coverage, 17 sidebars, and 35 illustrations, 22 of them new.
Benefit: The chapter is a largely non-technical overview of energy demand and population pressure, global warming and carbon dioxide emissions, the chief nonrenewable and renewable energy sources, future energy sources, energy conservation, and strategies for reducing fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. This material is cross-referenced to later chapters for further details where appropriate.
Feature: Chapter Goals are now integrated into the outline as part of the chapter opener content.
Benefit: The combined chapter outline and list of goals emphasize the concepts at a section level. The listing is designed to help students focus their studies by identifying the most important topics in the outline.
Feature: Superb pedagogy: updated "A Scientist at Work" essays, biographies of important scientists, worked examples and exercises, chapter summaries, conceptual questions and problems, high-interest sidebars applying science to everyday life, and answers to all odd-numbered questions and problems.
Benefit: These features provide students with various inroads into the study of science and relate science to their everyday experiences.
Feature: The Krauskopf/Beiser text is more conceptual than most physical science texts in particular emphasizing the scientific method of inquiry - how scientists think.
Benefit: This will help students grasp the difficult to understand, scientific concepts and also provide them with problem solving and critical thinking skills that can be applied to other courses.
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