| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Cover -- Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- How this book came about -- Other books -- How to use this book -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Mechanics, Heat, and General Physics -- 1.1 Bouncing brick -- Solution -- 1.2 Slippery cone -- Solution -- 1.3 Roach race -- Solution -- 1.4 Spinning Earth -- Solution -- 1.5 Mechanical oscillator as a force sensor -- Solution -- 1.6 Hot-dog physics -- Solution -- 1.7 Ostrich egg -- Solution -- 1.8 Joker's pendulum -- Solution |
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1.9 Slinky magic -- Solution -- 1.10 Lightbulb and coal -- Solution -- 1.11 Comfortable walking speed -- Solution -- 1.12 Rotating dumbbell -- Solution -- 2 Fluids -- 2.1 Bubble physics -- Solution -- 2.2 Bubble and pressure -- Solution -- 2.3 Holey bucket -- Solution -- 2.4 Surprises in melting and solidification -- Solution -- 2.5 Shallow-water and deep-water gravity waves -- Solution -- 2.6 Tides -- Solution -- 2.7 Boat speed limit (hull speed) -- Solution -- 2.8 Floating in circles -- Solution -- 2.9 Boat displacement -- Solution -- 2.10 Temperature lapse in the atmosphere -- Solution |
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2.11 Angler's dilemma -- Solution -- 3 Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology -- 3.1 Olber's paradox: why is the sky dark? -- Solution -- 3.2 Gravitational shift of clock rates -- Solution -- 3.3 Photon fallout -- Solution -- 3.4 Planck mass and length scale -- Solution -- 3.5 Rotation of stars around the center of a galaxy -- Solution -- 3.6 Ultralight dark matter -- Solution -- 3.7 Detecting gravitational waves -- Solution -- 3.8 Dark matter trapped in the Earth -- Solution -- 4 Electromagnetism -- 4.1 Currents and magnetic fields -- Solution -- 4.2 Electromagnet design -- Solution |
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4.3 Field in a shield (with a coil) -- Solution -- 4.4 Multipole expansion -- Solution -- 4.5 Energy in a wire -- Solution -- 4.6 Earth's magnetic field angle -- Solution -- 4.7 Refrigerator-magnet science -- Solution -- 4.8 Spherical-cell magnetometer -- Solution -- 4.9 Magnetic force on a superconducting magnet -- Solution -- 4.10 Circuit view of atoms and space -- Solution -- 4.11 Magnetic monopole -- Solution -- 5 Optics -- 5.1 Rotating liquid mirror -- Solution -- 5.2 Stacking lenses -- Solution -- 5.3 Nanoparticle optics -- Solution -- 5.4 Di raction angle -- Solution |
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5.5 Di raction on an edge -- Solution -- 5.6 Black-body radiation -- Solution -- 5.7 Laser vs. thermal light source -- Solution -- 5.8 Correlation functions for light and Bose condensates -- Solution -- 5.9 Pulsed laser repetition rate -- Solution -- 5.10 Beamsplitter -- Solution -- 5.11 Rotating linear polarization -- Solution -- 6 Quantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics -- 6.1 Magnetic decoupling of spins -- Solution -- 6.2 Level anticrossing -- Solution -- 6.3 Bound states in a potential well -- Solution -- 6.4 Hypothetical anomalous hydrogen -- Solution |
| Summary |
This second edition contains a significantly expanded 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 |
| Notes |
First edition published in 2015 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed December 15, 2022) |
| Subject |
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics.
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| SUBJECT |
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics fast |
| Subject |
Physics -- Examinations, questions, etc
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Physics -- Humor
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Physics -- Popular works
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Physics
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| Genre/Form |
Examinations
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Humor
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Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sushkov, Alexander O., author.
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Demas, Vasiliki, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780191878367 |
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0191878367 |
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9780192579782 |
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0192579789 |
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