本书根据D．C．Giancoli编著的Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics(Third Edition)改编，对原版书的改编，力求保持原作的风格和体系，参照教育部非物理类专业物理基础课程教学指导分委员会2004年制订的《大学物理课程教学基本要求(讨论稿)》，删掉部分与中学物理重复的内容。

本书可作为高等院校理工科非物理专业大学物理课程的双语教材。

本书根据D．C．Giancoli编著的Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics(Third Edition)改编。

本书的原版书图片精美，素材实例丰富，语言平实流畅，注重物理理论与现实生活的结合及物理在工程技术中的应用，特别是书中向读者展示物理世界的方法非常值得称道，注重启发学生思考，激发学生自主学习的热情。可以说，这是一本非常优秀的国外大学物理教材。对原版书的改编，力求保持原作的风格和体系，参照教育部非物理类专业物理基础课程教学指导分委员会2004年制订的《大学物理课程教学基本要求(讨论稿)》，删掉部分与中学物理重复的内容。对于原版书中一些不属于国内课堂讲授的内容，作为拓展阅读资料保留。

本书可作为高等院校理工科非物理专业大学物理课程的双语教材，也可供社会读者阅读参考。

1 INTRODUCTION,MEASUREMENT,ESTIMATING

2 DESCRIBING MOTION:KINEMA-TICS IN ONE DIMENSION

3 KINEMATICS IN TWO DIMENSIONS; VECTORS

4 DYNAMICS:NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION

5 FURTHER APPLICATIONS OF NEWTON'S LAWS

6 GRAVITATION AND NEWTON'S SYNTHESIS

7 WORK AND ENERGY

8 CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

9 LINEAR MOMENTUM AND COLLISIONS

10 ROTATIONAL MOTION ABOUT A FIXED AXIS

11 GENERAL ROTATION

12 OSCILLATIONS

13 WAVE MOTION

14 SOUND

15 TEMPERATURE AND THE IDEAL GAS LAM

16 KINETIC THEORY OF GASES

17 HEAT AND THE FIRST LAW OF THERODYNAMICS

18 SECOND LAW OF THERMOD-YNAMICS

19 ELECTRIC CHARGE AND ELECTRIC FIELD

20 GAUSS'S LAW

21 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL

22 CAPACITANCE,DIELECTRICS,ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE

23 ELECTRIC CURRENTS AND RESISTANCE

24 DC CIRCUITS

25 MAGNERISM

26 SOURCES OF MAGNETIC FIELD

27 ELECTROMAGNERIC INDUCTION AND FARADAY'S LAW

28 INDUCTANCE,AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC OSCILATIONS

29 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS AND ELECTROMAGNERIC WAVES

30 THE WAVE NATURE OF LIGHT;INTERFERENCE

31 DIFFRACTION AND POLARIZATION

32 SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY

33 EARLY QUANTUM THEORY AND MODELS OF THE ATOM

34 QUANTUM MECHANICS

35 QUANTUM MECHANICS OF ATOMS

36 MOLECULES AND SOLIDS

37 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIOACTIVITY

38 NUCLERA ENERGY

39 ELEMENTARY PARICLES

40 ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

APPENDICES

ANSWERS TO PARTS OF PROBLEMS