200 Puzzling Physics Problems: With Hints and Solutions

P. Gnadig (Lorand Eoetvoes University, Budapest),G. Honyek (Radnoti Teacher Training School),K. F. Riley (University of Cambridge)

200 Puzzling Physics Problems: With Hints and Solutions
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 August 2001
Pages
272
ISBN
9780521774802

200 Puzzling Physics Problems: With Hints and Solutions

P. Gnadig (Lorand Eoetvoes University, Budapest),G. Honyek (Radnoti Teacher Training School),K. F. Riley (University of Cambridge)

This book will strengthen a student’s grasp of the laws of physics by applying them to practical situations, and problems that yield more easily to intuitive insight than brute-force methods and complex mathematics. These intriguing problems, chosen almost exclusively from classical (non-quantum) physics, are posed in accessible non-technical language requiring the student to select the right framework in which to analyse the situation and decide which branches of physics are involved. The level of sophistication needed to tackle most of the two hundred problems is that of the exceptional school student, the good undergraduate, or competent graduate student. The book will be valuable to undergraduates preparing for ‘general physics’ papers. It is hoped that even some physics professors will find the more difficult questions challenging. By contrast, mathematical demands are minimal, and do not go beyond elementary calculus. This intriguing book of physics problems should prove instructive, challenging and fun.

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