An Introduction to Physical Science, Student Edition

Chapter-opening "Did You Know?" questions orient students and introduce them to the central ideas of the chapter.

Chapter-opening "Facts" provide interesting and user-friendly summaries of the chapter's key concepts and topics.

Section-opening Key Questions help students gauge their understanding of the important topics to be covered in the section that follows.

"Did You Learn?" sections provide a short set of answers to the section-opening Key Questions, reinforcing the concepts students should know after completing a section.

Conceptual Questions throughout (often related to an everyday application) are immediately followed by the correct answer to reinforce understanding.

Timely "Physical Science Today" (PST) articles in nearly all chapters present fascinating, high-interest topics, emphasizing bio-medical and technical applications.

A new Digital Workbook in WebAssign includes active-learning modules, including videos, simulations, readings and experiment-based examples followed by a wide variety of questions for student response.

"Thinking It Through" (TIT) sections after Example questions and before Solutions focus students on the critical thinking and analysis they should undertake before working the example.