College Physics: With an Integrated Approach to Forces and Kinematics, 5th Edition is designed to help students acquire both conceptual understanding and analytical skills. As part of the "concepts-first" approach, the unique organization of this text introduces forces earlier to allow students more practice with the crucial skills they need to analyze forces, construct free-body diagrams, and add forces as vectors to find the net force. Chapter 2 sets the conceptual framework for what follows by introducing forces and Newton's laws. Kinematics is then introduced in Chapters 3 and 4 as a tool to understand how forces affect motion.