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JEREMIAH A. CRONIN | DAVID F. GREENBERG
VALENTINE L. TELEGDI
Department of Physics, University of Chicago
and
The Enrico Fermi instiiuie for Nuciear Studies
ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY
READING, MASSACHUSETTS + PALO ALTO + LONDON » DON MILLS, ONTARIO ADDISON-WESLEY SERIES IN ADVANCED PHYSICS
COPYRIGHT © 1967 BY ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS BOOK, OR PARTS THEREOF, MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED
IN ANY FORM WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. PRINTED
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN CANADA.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 67-21301. PREFACE
1947, the Dep:
required every graduate student to pass a comprehensive examination in
the fundamentals of classical and modem physics before allowing the
student to begin his thesis research for the Ph.D. This examination, called
the “Rasie” in the early days, and now known officially as the “Candidacy
Soe ee
We present here a selection of problems from these exams, together with
solutions. It is our hope that the collection will be useful to students as a
means of hoth measuring and improving their understanding af the subject,
matter. This collection will serve this purpose only if it is properly used.
Browsing through the solutions will not be of permanent value to the
student; only after honest effort should he consult the solutions.
We have tried to make each solution self-contained and coherent, and
we have strived to avoid reproducing material found in standard textbooks.
It is difficult to know how much knowledge may be assumed on the part
of the reader; our general rule has been to assume the level of knowledge
expected of a second-year graduate student at the University of Chicago.
The solutions were prepared by two of the authors, Jeremiah A. Cronin
and David F. Greenberg. The third author, Professor Valentine L.
Telegdi, assisted in putting the solutions to Chapters 1 and 2 into final
form. He also reviewed Chapters 6, 9, and 11, All three authors benefited
from conversations with colleagues of the University of Chicago. In
particular, they would like to thank Dr. Sol Krasner of the Physics Depart-
ment for his numerous contributions. They are grateful to the Department
for its support and encouragement, and to the secretarial staff of the
Enrico Fermi Institute for their assistance in the preparation of the
manuscript.
Chicago, Illinois
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