Welcome

Physics, Fourth Edition
by
James S. Walker

Welcome to the Companion Website for Physics, Fourth Edition. Built to complement the text as part of an integrated course package, this site is a useful study tool for your physics course.

To enter the site, select a chapter from the chapter menu above and click Go.

This website hosts contributions from leaders in physics education research, providing students with a variety of interactive explorations of each chapter’s topics, and easily accommodating differences in learning styles. Resources include:

• Interactive Figures, written by James Walker, where an Example, Active Example, Conceptual Checkpoint, or Figure from the book "comes alive" as the computer animates the corresponding physical system.


• Warm Ups, Puzzles, and “What Is Physics Good For?” Applications from the Just in Time Teaching method.


• Multiple-choice Practice Questions, with hints and feedback.