Product Description

A study aid for senior and graduate level students needing a review of undergraduate physics. Covers a broad range of topics, with carefully worked examples illustrating important problem-solving methods. A collection of self-test problems helps students prepare for the College Entrance Advanced Physics Examination and the Qualifying Written Examination for the PhD.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #667357 in Books
• Published on: 1986-02-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From the Publisher
A study aid for senior and graduate level students needing a review of undergraduate physics. Covers a broad range of topics, with carefully worked examples illustrating important problem-solving methods. A collection of self-test problems helps students prepare for the College Entrance Advanced Physics Examination and the Qualifying Written Examination for the PhD.

From the Back Cover
A Review of Undergraduate Physics This book presents a clear summary of most of the material covered in an American undergraduate program in physics. It should be especially useful to:

1. Graduate students, or advanced undergraduates, who are preparing to take a comprehensive physics examination.
2. Physicists and physics students who want a concise, unified treatment of the basic ideas and methods of physics.
3. Engineers and physical scientists who would like to see more advanced treatments of the concepts they encountered in their undergraduate physics courses.

There are six chapters: mechanics, relativity, electricity and magnetism, optics, quantum mechanics and thermal physics. In each, the important physical ideas are applied to the solution of problems at the level of first-year graduate qualifying exams. Additional problems (with brief answers) are given at the end of each chapter. New Wiley Titles Valuable Additions for your Professional Library Brandt / Dahmen: The Picture Book of Quantum Mechanics, 306pp, 1985 Callen: Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics 2nd, 493pp, 1985 Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics, 6th, 565pp, 1986 Klein / Furtak: Optics, 2nd, 720pp, 1986 Nayfeh / Brussel: Electricity and Magnetism, 619pp, 1985 Stubbins: Essential Electronics, 480pp, 1986

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Customer Reviews

It may be good but
it is priced at a sum that a prince can afford. How is it possible to have so much greed in publishing a review on undergrad physics is beyond me. Criminals!!

Good for grad school reference as well...
I used this book to prepare for both my comprehensives and qualifiers. Partial solutions are offered in most cases--always a plus for those seeking self-study. I felt that some of the exercises were above the level of an undergraduate's curriculum, but that just makes it a better graduate school reference.

It's Okay.
I'm not as wild about this book as some of the other reviewers. The E&M section is in CGS, which is a big bummer. I found the best review for the qualifier was to just do lots of physics problems for 3 months prior to taking it, and look things up as necessary using the physics books that I was already familiar with.