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Problems In Physics

The problems published in this collection were compiled by me for students of the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, where I taught a course in general physics in 1947-1949. The collection also includes problems given at examinations for postgraduate studies at the Institute of Physical Problems at the USSR Academy of Sciences. I strove to achieve this end by formulating the majority of questions in the following manner. A small problem is presented, and the student, using the known laws of physics, must analyse and describe quantitatively the natural phenomenon involved. These natural phenomena were selected in terms of their scientific or practical interest within the scope of the students’ level of knowledge. A characteristic feature of our problems is that they have no definite answer because the student is allowed to proceed further and further with the analysis of the problem posed, depending on his own abilities and inclinations. Most of the problems have another distinctive trait. They do not contain numerical values of physical constants or parameters, and the student has to choose them personally. From Collected Papers of of P. L. Kapitza last chapter (32) of last volum

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