Budker, Dmitry

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. Ill. by Vasiliki Demas - 1. publ. - XIII, 203 S. Ill., graph. Darst.

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The authors, previously students in the Physics Department of the University of California at Berkeley, present possible questions from Berkeley's former oral examination for first year graduate students. The questions are followed by answers, all done with humor, accompanied by illustrations and cartoons Mechanics, heat, and general physics -- Fluids -- Gravitation, astrophysics, and cosmology -- Electromagnetism -- Optics -- Quantum, atomic, and molecular physics -- Nuclear and elementary-particle physics -- Solid-state physics -- Appendix A. Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic field boundary conditions -- Appendix B. Symbols and useful constants

0199681651 hbk. 9780199681662 (pbk) 9780199681655 : hbk.


University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics


Physics--Examinations, questions, etc
Physics--Humor
Physics--Popular works


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