Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions

or Ninety Minutes of Shame but a PhD for the Rest of Your Life!

Dmitry Budker, Alexander O. Sushkov (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2015
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-968165-5 (ISBN)

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A collection of physics problems and solutions, full of dry humour and enjoyable cartoons. This book provides a helpful guide for PhD-exam preparation and a review of all major areas of classical and modern physics, and will teach readers some of the quirky ways in which physicists think.

Physics on Your Feet gives a collection of physics problems covering the broad range of topics in classical and modern physics that were, or could have been, asked at oral PhD exams at Berkeley. The questions are easy to formulate, but some of them can only be answered using an out-of-the-box approach. Detailed solutions are provided, from which the reader is guaranteed to learn a lot about the physicists' way of thinking. The book is also packed full of cartoons and dry humour to help take the edge off the stress and anxiety surrounding exams. This is a helpful guide to students preparing for their exams, as well as to University lecturers looking for good instructive problems. No exams are necessary to enjoy the book!

Dmitry Budker has been a physics professor at Berkeley since 1995, where he previously was both a PhD student and a post-doc. Since 2014, he is at the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz, Germany, and a Section Leader at the Helmoltz Institute, Mainz. Alexander Sushkov, upon passing all the exams and obtaining his PhD from Berkeley in 2006, has been conducting cutting edge research at Yale and Harvard.

1. Mechanics, heat, and general physics ; 2. Fluids ; 3. Gravitation, astrophysics, cosmology ; 4. Electromagnetism ; 5. Optics ; 6. Quantum, atomic, and molecular physics ; 7. Nuclear and elementary-particle physics ; 8. Solid-state physics ; Appendix A: Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic field boundary conditions ; Appendix B: Symbols and useful constants

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.2.2015
Illustrationen	Vasiliki Demas
Zusatzinfo	Numerous cartoons and illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	181 x 254 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Elektrodynamik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
ISBN-10	0-19-968165-1 / 0199681651
ISBN-13	978-0-19-968165-5 / 9780199681655
Zustand	Neuware