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PREFACE

This book is intended to provide students of applied physics with help in mastering those physical
principles that underlie modern technology. A wide spectrum of topics is covered, so that the
reader may select those which correspond to his or her particular needs. SI (metric) units are
mainly employed, although a few problems are worked out with British units to illustrate their
use.
Each section of a chapter begins with an outline of its subject. The solved problems that
follow are of two kinds: those that show how numerical answers are found to typical questions,
and those that review important facts and ideas. Next is a collection of multiple choice exercises
which serve as a gauge of the reader’s grasp of the chapter contents. The supplementary problems
then give the reader a chance of practice what has been learned.
In preparing this edition, many of the explanations have been revised for greater clarity, a
number of new figures have been added for the same reason, and a generous selection of new
problems of all three kinds has been provided to give the reader more model solutions and further
opportunity for practice.

ARTHUR BEISER

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