Francis Sears

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Francis Weston Sears (October 1, 1898 – November 1975) was an American physicist.[1] He was a professor of physics at MIT for 35 years before moving to Dartmouth College in 1956 [2] and is best known for co-authoring University Physics, a highly regarded introductory physics textbook, with Mark Zemansky (thus, this book is often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky"). He was a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers, serving as its president in 1956.

Awards

  • 1961 — Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers

Books

  • Sears, Francis; Mark Zemansky, et al. (1991). College Physics (7th ed.). Addison Wesley. 
  • Sears, Francis (1958). Mechanics, Wave Motion, and Heat (1st ed.). Addison Wesley. 
  • Sears, Francis W. (1935). An Introduction to Optics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 
  • Francis W. Sears (1975). Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Thermodynamics. Addison Wesley. ISBN 020106894X. 
  • Sears, Francis W. (1950). An Introduction to Thermodynamics, the Kinetic Theory of Gases and Statistical Mechanics. Addison Wesley. 
  • Sears, Francis W. (1950). Mechanics, heat and sound. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Addison Wesley.
  • Sears, Francis W. (1946). "Electricity and Magnetism". Reading, Massachusetts. Addison-Wesley

See also

References

  1. ↑ Zemansky, Mark W. (February 1976). "Francis W. Sears". Physics Today 29 (2): 65. doi:10.1063/1.3023329. 
  2. ↑ "Biographical notes", Journal of the Optical Society of America, 66(12): 1446
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