Physics to a DegreePhysics to a Degree provides an extensive collection of problems suitable for self-study or tutorial and group work at the level of an undergraduate physics course. This novel set of exercises draws together the core elements of an undergraduate physics degree and provides students with the problem solving skills needed for general physics' examinations and for real-life situations encountered by the professional physicist. Topics include force, momentum, gravitation, Bernoulli's Theorem, magnetic fields, blackbody radiation, relativistic travel, mechanics near the speed of light, radioactive decay, quantum uncertainty, and much more. |
Contents
3 | 5 |
2223 | 19 |
2 | 29 |
Spontaneous structure | 35 |
Mechanics near c | 49 |
The anthropic principle | 55 |
Degenerate electron gases | 65 |
Newtonian games | 71 |
Quantum uncertainty | 182 |
Nuclear explosions | 188 |
In orbit | 199 |
Not so square | 200 |
Orbits inside matter | 201 |
The Indian rope trick | 202 |
Time and tides | 203 |
The day the Earth caught fire | 204 |
6 | 79 |
Diluting gravity | 90 |
12 | 99 |
Resonance | 105 |
Orbits of the Sun | 111 |
18 | 119 |
Stress and strain | 123 |
19 | 125 |
Atmospheric friction | 133 |
Spontaneous structure | 139 |
28 | 146 |
29 | 148 |
Things to do with mirrors | 153 |
32 | 155 |
Relativistic travel | 159 |
A relativistic aberration | 165 |
Radiating gravity | 176 |
Space debris | 205 |
Suspension bridges | 206 |
Tennis then and now | 207 |
Hot potatoes | 208 |
Thermal balance in mammals | 209 |
Dinosaur metabolism | 210 |
Journey to the centre of the Earth | 211 |
33 | 212 |
The Gulf Stream | 213 |
Fluid flows | 214 |
Land yachts | 215 |
Mirrors without the grind | 216 |
Sand and water | 217 |
Diverging beams | 218 |
The UrStar | 219 |
47 | 220 |
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