Outcome-Based Learning Objectives
To help outline assessment criteria and key goals throughout the chapter, the beginning of each chapter highlights outcomebased learning objectives that allow students to judge if they’ve reached the objective set forth for each chapter section. The listed learning objectives include both short-term (chapter sections) goals and long-term comprehensive (chapter) goals that highlight the important pedagogy that students should focus on throughout the text. The learning objectives of each chapter section are reinforced by Take-Home Messages at the end of each.

Take-Home Messages
This boxed feature appears at the end of each chapter section and summarizes the main physics principles introduced in that section. These Take-Home Messages are directly tied to the outcome-based learning objectives listed at the beginning of each chapter, so that students can check for understanding before moving on to the next chapter section.

Conceptual Problems Built into the Flow of the Text
Health Sciences and biological sciences students are used to a conceptual approach to both problem-solving and learning in general. For that reason, the authors created a similar approach with the “Got the Concept?” questions that appear throughout the text. “Got the Concept?” questions almost never require numeric calculations but instead invite students to think through the implications or connections of a physics concept.

Special Attention to Common Misconceptions
Having taught physics for many years, the authors know which topics are often difficult for students and prone to cause misunderstandings. To draw students’ attention to these misconceptions and correct them, the authors have created the “Watch Out!” boxed feature, which tackles these misconceptions directly as students read through the text. By tackling these misunderstandings head on, students will be able to gain a deeper understanding of the physics presented in the text.

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