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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 200 Puzzling Physics Problems by P. Gnadig , G. Honyek , K. F. Riley
This book will strengthen a students grasp of the laws of physics by applying them to practical situations and problems that yield more easily to intuitive insight than bruteforce methods and complex mathematics. These intriguing problems chosen almost exclusively from classical (nonquantum) physics are posed in accessible nontechnical 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.