0.6 - Highlighting and notes
You can add notes or highlight text on most sections of the textbook. Notes always appear at the top of the section. You can use a note to write
short messages about key elements of a section, or to remind yourself not to forget the extra soccer practice or to pick up the groceries.
As the note above says, you insert notes by pressing Add Note at the bottom of the page. You remove a note by clicking on the Delete button
located next to the note. Modify a note by pressing the Edit button.
The text you are reading now is highlighted. To highlight text, click the Highlight button at the bottom of the page to switch it from “Off” to “On”.
When it is “On”, any text you select (by clicking on your mouse and dragging) will be highlighted. You can remove all highlighting from a section
by pressing the “Clear” button.
If the text above is not highlighted, your operating system or browser does not enable us to offer this feature. For instance, the feature is not
available on the Macintosh operating system 0S X 10.2.
If you use a shared computer, the highlighting and notes features may be turned off. The preferences page allows you to enable or disable
either of these features. You will find the preferences page by clicking on the Preferences button at the bottom of the page.
Notes and highlighting are not supported on our Web Access option or the trial version of the product on our web site.0.7 - Online Homework
This textbook was designed to support online assessment of homework. Instructors can assign specific problems online, and you submit your
responses over the Internet to a central computer. You can work offline and submit the answers when you are ready.The computer checks the answers, and sends a report about your efforts, and the efforts of your peers, to your instructor. Your instructor can
configure this service in a variety of fashions. For instance, they can set deadlines for homework assignments or decide if you are allowed to
try answering a question a few times.
Online Homework is an optional feature; not all instructors will use it. If your instructor has supplied you with a login ID or told you to sign up for
Online Homework, please log in now. If you are unsure, please check with your instructor.If you want to learn more about on-line assessment in general, click here.0.8 - Finding what you need in this book
You can navigate through the book using the Table of Contents button. When you roll your mouse over it, you will see three links.
The Chapter TOC link takes you to the table of contents for the chapter you are currently in. You will see more sections than you might see in a
typical physics textbook table of contents. We chose to make it very easy to navigate to each element of the textbook by listing sample
problems, derivations and other elements discretely.
The Main TOC link takes you to the list of all the chapters in the textbook. Clicking on the third link, Physics Factbook, opens a reference tool
containing useful information including mathematics review topics and formulas, unit conversion factors, fundamental physical constants,
properties of the elements, astronomical data, and physics equations. The Factbook also has a built-in search feature to help you find
information quickly.This textbook has no index, but likely you will find that entering text in the “search box” is more useful. Search is located at the bottom of each
Web page. Search performs its task by looking at the name of each section, at the first (or essential) time any term is defined, and at some
other types of text. Typing in a phrase like “kinetic energy” will produce a number of useful results.
When you use search, you do not have to worry about sequence: You do not have to guess whether we listed something under, say, “average
velocity” or “velocity average.” Search looks for the terms and presents them to you along with some of their context.
That is it for logistics. The people who worked on this textbook í about 50 of us í hope you enjoy it. We have a passion for physics, and we
hope some of that carries on to you.To explore the rest of the book, move your mouse over a Table of Contents button at the top or bottom of this page, and select the Main TOC.(^6) Copyright 2000-2007 Kinetic Books Co. Chapter 00