Expose Your Students to the Elegant World of Physics in an Enticing Way

Physics from Planet Earth - An Introduction to Mechanics provides a one-semester, calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics for first-year undergraduate students studying physics, chemistry, astronomy, or engineering. Developed from classroom-tested materials refined and updated for over ten years at Colgate University, the book guides students on a journey beyond standard approaches that use blocks, projectiles, and inclined planes to grander themes involving interplanetary...

This revision of a successful introductory text for students of physics includes new chapters that explore important ideas of quantum mechanics. It concentrates on the physics that answers the question: Why do we believe in atoms and their properties?