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A GUIDE
TO PHYSICS
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part 1
Mechanics, Relativity,
and Electrodynamics
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TLFeBOOK
part 1
Mechanics, Relativity,
and Electrodynamics
Sidney B. Cahn
Boris E. Nadgorny
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW
TLFeBOOK
eBook ISBN: 0-306-48400-5
Print ISBN: 0-306-44679-0
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Foreword
For many graduate students of physics the written qualifying examina-
tion is the last and one of the most important of the hundreds of grueling
examinations that they have had to take in their career. I remember vividly
my own experience in 1947 at the University of Chicago. After the quali-
fying examination, I knew I was finally free from all future examinations,
and that generated a wonderful feeling of liberation and relief.
Be that as it may, the written qualifying examination does serve a useful
purpose, both for the faculty and for the students themselves. That is why
so many universities give these exams year after year in all parts of the
world.
Sidney Cahn and Boris Nadgorny have energetically collected and pre-
sented solutions to about 140 problems from the exams at many universities
in the United States and one university in Russia, the Moscow Institute
of Physics and Technology. Some of the problems are quite easy, others
quite tough; some are routine, others ingenious. Sampling them I am re-
minded of the tripos quest