Matter & Interactions

by Ruth W. Chabay, Bruce A. Sherwood

Matter and Interactions offers a modern curriculum for introductory physics (calculus-based). It presents physics the way practicing physicists view their discipline and integrates 20th Century physics and computational physics. The text emphasizes the small number of fundamental principles that underlie the behavior of matter, and models that can explain and predict a wide variety of physical phenomena. Matter and Interactions will be available as a single volume hardcover text and also two paperback volumes. 

Genres: Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Reference, Textbooks

1128 pages, Hardcover

First published September 3, 2001

Reviews

[Serena Yates · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this to be a solid text to accompany a course in classical physics. It contains lots of examples, good explanations that are easy to follow, and a lot of examples. However, it does combine several fields into new topics to explore, and that was sometimes a little difficult for me to follow. Having previously only taken high school physics, I discovered that I was much more used to the neatly delineated fields and combining them into new topics while simultaneously adding calculus proved a challenge.

The way the topics were presented, however, increased my interested and in no way diminished my curiosity and determination to continue studying physics.

[Thomas Ray]

Matter and Interactions, Chabay and Sherwood, 4th edition 2015

Integrates modern physics into the study of classical physics.

Incorporates numerical methods of problem solving (programming a computer to iterate to a solution of a problem that may not be solvable in closed form by analysis. Using VPython.)

Volume 1
The Momentum Principle
The Work-Energy Principle
The Angular Momentum Principle

Volume 2
Electric Fields
Magnetic Fields


The book's website:
https://matterandinterations.org/

Chabay website:
https://ruthchabay.net/

Sherwood website:
https://physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/peo...

review by Rhett Alain:
https://www.wired.com/2014/05/5-reaso...

[alxomnm · Rating 5 out of 5]

p. 64

[Luke Tipton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just incredible.
Meticulous, CONCEPT-BASED approach to modern mechanics.
Fun problems.
I'd give it six stars if I could.

[Michael Fortner · Rating 2 out of 5]

I LOOKED THRU IT FOR A CLASS I TEACH