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 ; illustrated by Vasiliki Demas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budker, Dmitry, author.

Sushkov, Alexander O., author.

Contributor:

Demas, Vasiliki, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics--Examinations, questions, etc.

Physics.

University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics.

University of California, Berkeley.

Genre:

Humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

A collection of physics problems and solutions, full of dry humour and enjoyable cartoons. It 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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""1 Mechanics, Heat, and General Physics""; ""1.1 Bouncing Brick""; ""1.2 Slippery Cone""; ""1.3 Roach Race""; ""1.4 Spinning Earth""; ""1.5 Mechanical Oscillator as a Force Sensor""; ""1.6 Hot Dog Physics""; ""1.7 Ostrich Egg""; ""1.8 Joker's Pendulum""; ""1.9 Slinky Magic""; ""1.10 Lightbulb and Coal""; ""2 Fluids""; ""2.1 Bubble Physics""; ""2.2 Bubble and Pressure""; ""2.3 Holey Bucket""; ""2.4 Surprises in Melting and Solidification""; ""2.5 Shallow Water and Deep Water Gravity Waves""; ""2.6 Tides""

""2.7 Boat Speed Limit (Hull Speed)""""2.8 Floating in Circles""; ""2.9 Boat Displacement""; ""2.10 Temperature Lapse in the Atmosphere""; ""3 Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology""; ""3.1 Olber's Paradox: Why is the Sky Dark?""; ""3.2 Gravitational Shift of Clock Rates""; ""3.3 Photon Fallout""; ""3.4 Planck Mass and Length Scale""; ""3.5 Rotation of Stars Around the Center of a Galaxy""; ""4 Electromagnetism""; ""4.1 Currents and Magnetic Fields""; ""4.2 Electromagnet Design""; ""4.3 Field in a Shield (with a Coil)""; ""4.4 Multipole Expansion""; ""4.5 Energy in a Wire""

""4.6 Earth's Magnetic Field Angle""""4.7 Refrigerator Magnet Science""; ""4.8 Spherical Cell Magnetometer""; ""4.9 Magnetic Force on a Superconducting Magnet""; ""4.10 Circuit View of Atoms and Space""; ""4.11 Magnetic Monopole""; ""5 Optics""; ""5.1 Rotating Liquid Mirror""; ""5.2 Stacking Lenses""; ""5.3 Nanoparticle Optics""; ""5.4 Diffraction Angle""; ""5.5 Diffraction on an Edge""; ""5.6 Black-Body Radiation""; ""5.7 Laser versus Thermal Light Source""; ""5.8 Correlation Functions for Light and Bose Condensates""; ""6 Quantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics""

""6.1 Magnetic Decoupling of Spins""""6.2 Level Anticrossing""; ""6.3 Bound States in a Potential Well""; ""6.4 Hypothetical Anomalous Hydrogen""; ""6.5 Time-Reversal in Quantum Mechanics""; ""6.6 Superconductivity versus Atomic Diamagnetism""; ""6.7 Atomic Desorption""; ""6.8 Van der Waals Interaction""; ""6.9 Vacuum Birefringence""; ""6.10 Nonmagnetic Molecule""; ""7 Nuclear and Elementary-Particle Physics""; ""7.1 The Number of Elements in the Periodic Table""; ""7.2 Neutron Anatomy""; ""7.3 Nonexistence of the dineutron""; ""7.4 Deuterium fusion""

""7.5 Lifetime of the Ground-State Para-Positronium""""8 Solid-State Physics""; ""8.1 Transistors""; ""8.2 Magnetic Domains""; ""8.3 Damaging Diamond""; ""Appendix A Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Field Boundary Conditions""; ""Appendix B Symbols and Useful Constants""; ""B.1 Symbols""; ""B.2 Useful Constants""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-968166-X

0-19-176164-8

OCLC:

908416902