The book covers five aspects: force, electromagnetism, oscillations, thermology, and optics. As international students at this level have already finished high school courses in their own countries and have acquired some basic physics knowledge, this book focuses on the following goals:

1.    In terms of content, it highlights the sequence of knowledge. This revised edition is based on the new Physics Syllabus for Foreigners Taking College-Prep Courses in China on CSC Scholarship. Some out-of-syllabus knowledge points have been taken out to make the content more clear and focused. Besides, oscillations, thermology and optics have been moved to the later part of the book according to actual teaching practice and difficulty of the knowledge.

2.    The language is made more suitable for physics teaching. As students found the first edition difficult to read, this edition has simplified the language used. While keeping the language scientific and precise, the author has avoided lengthy descriptions and changed the examples students found hard to read to easier ones, and provided English explanation and pinyin for the difficult key words. Two appendices, “Chinese-English professional glossary” and “English-Chinese professional glossary”, have been added to facilitate students’ study and research.

In terms of knowledge, it pays attention to the connection with college physics, trying to help the students smoothly move on to undergraduate studies. Pertinent examples and exercises have been added to meet the testing requirements prescribed in the new syllabus; the exercise types have been designed referring to the question types in the graduation tests of college-prep programs on CSC scholarship, with a larger number of exercises also; certain out-of-syllabus exercises have been removed and substituted with exercises better matching the new syllabus. 

Dr. Xiao Lifeng is a lecturer in the Physics Department, School of Science of Tianjin University, teaching college physics, college physics experiments and other courses. 

A total of 60 class hours.

Based on students’ Chinese proficiency and the teaching content, the schedule should be tight at first and relaxed afterwards.