200 Puzzling Physics Problems: With Hints and Solutions

✍ Scribed by Peter Gnädig, Gyula Honyek, Ken F. Riley

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text will strengthen a student's ability to apply the laws of physics to practical situations and problems that yield more easily to intuitive insight than to complex mathematics. These problems, chosen almost exclusively from classical (non-quantum) physics, are posed in accessible nontechnical language and require the student to select the right framework in which to analyze the situation. The book will be invaluable to undergraduates preparing for "general physics" papers. Some physics professors will even find the more difficult questions challenging. The mathematical prerequisites are minimal and do not go beyond elementary calculus. This intriguing book of physics problems will prove instructive, challenging and fun.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
How to use this book
Thematic order of the problems
Physical constants
Problems
P01-P04
P05-P09
P10-P14
P15-P19
P20-P25
P26-P29
P30-P34
P35-P42
P43-P47
P48-P51
P52-P55
P56-P60
P61-P63
P64-P67
P68-P70
P71-P74
P75-P77
P78-P81
P82-P85
P86-P89
P90-P94
P96-P99
P100-P102
P103-P104
P105-P107
P108-P110
P111-P112
P113-P117
P118-P120
P121-P125
P126-P132
P133-P137
P138-P142
P143-P145
P146-P151
P152-P154
P155-P159
P160-P163
P164-P167
P168-P170
P171-P174
P175-P177
P178-P179
P180-P182
P183-P185
P186-P187
P188-P192
P193-P199
P200
Hints
H01-H08
H09-H24
H25-H37
H38-H48
H49-H58
H59-H68
H69-H76
H77-H87
H88-H97
H98-H106
H107-H118
H119-H130
H131-H137
H138-H151
H152-H160
H161-H171
H172-H182
H183-H190
H191-H200
Solutions
S01
S20
S40
S60
S80
S100
S120
S140
S160
S180
S200