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Zusatztext The inventive and challenging puzzles in this book are guaranteed to make you think and they will probably also make you glad youre not encountering them on your feet in an exam. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
