Physics

Welcome to Jearl Walker's Flying Circus of Physics, 2nd Edition, where death-defying stunts, high-flying acrobatics, strange curiosities, and mind-bending illusions are all part of everyday life. You don't need a ticket; you only need to look to the world around you to uncover these fascinating feats of physics. Completely updated and expanded, this Second Edition of Jearl Walker's best-selling text features more than 700 thoroughly intriguing questions about relevant, fun, and completely real physical phenomena. Detailed explanations and references to outside sources guide your way through the problems. • Slipping Between Falling Drops. (Motion). • Racing on the Ceiling, Swimming Through Syrup. (Fluids). • Hiding Under the Covers, Listening or the Monsters. (Sound). • Striking at the Heat in the Night. (Thermal Processes). • Ducking First a Roar and Then a Flash. (Electricity and Magnetism). • Splashing Colors Everywhere, Like a Rainbow. (Optics). • Armadillos Dancing Against a Swollen Moon. (Vision). Learn More

It is the only text to cover both thermodynamic and statistical mechanics--allowing students to fully master thermodynamics at the macroscopic level. Presents essential ideas on critical phenomena developed over the last decade in simple

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The main theme of this highly successful book is that the transmission of energy by wave propagation is fundamental to almost every branch of physics. Therefore, besides giving students a thorough grounding in the theory of wave and vibrations, the book also demonstrates the pattern and unity of a large part of physics. 

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aspects of physics teaching and learning. He received his own physics education at Cornell University (B.A., 1966) and the City University of New York (Ph.D., 1974). That education has continued through 28 years of full-time teaching at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, where he is now Professor of Physics. At Curry he has developed his own courses and course materials, some with NSF support, and has reported on this work in the American Journal of Physics and the Journal of College Science Teaching. He has also been involved with the physics teaching profession more broadly. He has chaired the Committee on Research in Physics Education of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), is a past president of the AAPT's New England Section, and has done curriculum development for TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For over fifteen years, he has maintained an active research association with the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, supported at various times by three successive NSF Research Opportunity Awards and a Visiting research Professorship. His research finding shave appeared in several journal articles and in the proceedings of four international conferences. His own research and that of his collaborators, together with a broad and deep exposure to the outcomes and applications of physics education research, establish much of the perspective from which he has written this textbook.

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