Title: Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions: Or Ninety Minutes of Shame But a PhD for the Rest of Your Life!
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 019968166X
ISBN 13: 9780199681662
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1 pound

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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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Dmitry Budker, Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz, Germany,Alexander O. Sushkov, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA

Dmitry Budker has been a physics professor at Berkeley since 1995, where he previously was both a PhD student and a post-doc. Since 2013, 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.

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