TY - BOOK AU - Budker,Dmitry AU - Demas,Vasiliki AU - Sushkov,Alexander O. TI - Physics on your feet: Berkeley graduate exam questions: or ninety minutes of shame but a PhD for the rest of your life SN - 0199681651 AV - QC24.5 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - University of California, Berkeley KW - Department of Physics KW - Physics KW - Examinations, questions, etc KW - Humor KW - Popular works KW - Aufgabensammlung KW - gnd-content N1 - Literaturverz. S. [199] - 200 und Index N2 - 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 UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/tib-ub-hannover/815829191.pdf ER -