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Many years ago in school, we used Jearl Walker's Flying Circus of Physics as a study tool. The physics principles covered are elementary, things you see in first-year physics. And yet he manages to ask questions that really test your understanding of those principles and your confidence in applying them. It's an incredibly powerful teaching tool.
I just checked Amazon and am glad to see this book is still in print. Are there other books in a similar vein that people recommend? That is, deceptively-simple physics questions?
Though this book, as I recall, requires only first-year physics as I said, I wonder if there are similar books of "brain teasers" for more advanced subjects such as relativity, E & M and QM.
I just checked Amazon and am glad to see this book is still in print. Are there other books in a similar vein that people recommend? That is, deceptively-simple physics questions?
Though this book, as I recall, requires only first-year physics as I said, I wonder if there are similar books of "brain teasers" for more advanced subjects such as relativity, E & M and QM.