Physics Problems for Aspiring Physical Scientists and Engineers - Hardcover

Ken Riley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108476694 ISBN 13: 9781108476690

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Containing over 200 physics problems, with hints and full solutions, this book develops the skill of finding solutions to scientific problems.

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About the Author

Ken Riley is a retired Lecturer in Physics at the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory. He is also a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was both the Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutor, and taught physics and mathematics for over forty-five years. He has served on many committees and panels concerned with the teaching and examining of these subjects at all levels of tertiary and university education. His research was centred on nuclear physics at Harwell and then elementary particle physics at Brookhaven, New York, the Rutherford Laboratory and Stanford. He is the lead author of Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering (Cambridge, 3rd edition, 2006), and a joint author of both Foundation Mathematics for the Physical Sciences (Cambridge, 2011) and Essential Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences (Cambridge, 2011). He is a co-author of 200 Puzzling Physics Problems (Cambridge, 2001) and the consultant editor for 200 More Puzzling Physics Problems (Cambridge, 2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108476694
• ISBN 13: 9781108476690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 346