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Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions or Ninety Minutes of Shame but a PhD for the Rest of Your Life!

9780199681662

Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions or Ninety Minutes of Shame but a PhD for the Rest of Your Life!

  • ISBN 13:

    9780199681662

  • ISBN 10:

    019968166X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 03/29/2015
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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!

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