A GUIDE TO PHYSICS PROBLEMS

Аннотация

For many graduate students of physics the written qualifying examination is the last and one of the most important of the hundreds of grueling examinations that they have had to take in their career. I remember vividly my own experience in 1947 at the University of Chicago. After the qualifying examination, I knew I was finally free from all future examinations, and that generated a wonderful feeling of liberation and relief. Be that as it may, the written qualifying examination does serve a useful purpose, both for the faculty and for the students themselves. That is why so many universities give these exams year after year in all parts of the world.