Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions : or Ninety Minutes of Shame but a PhD for the Rest of Your Life! Paperback / softback
by Dmitry (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, US Budker, Alexander O. (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Departm Sushkov, Vasiliki Demas
Paperback / softback
Description
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 ofcartoons 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!
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:218 pages, Numerous cartoons and illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2015
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- ISBN:9780199681662
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:218 pages, Numerous cartoons and illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199681662
