NUS Department of Physics

Syllabus for the Comprehensive Exam

Subject Matter General Physics Science Library Call Number QC 23 Ser 2004

Exemplary Textbook (dening the scope) Raymond A. Serway and Robert J. Beichner, Physics for Scienctists and Engineers, (5th edition, Thomson-Brooks/Cole, Belmont 2004), Excluding Chapters 12, 15, and 46 or Hugh D. Young and Roger A. Freedman, Sears and Zemanskys University Physics: With Modern Physics, (11th edition, Pearson Addison Wesley, San Francisco 2004), Excluding Chapters 14 and 44 Jerry B. Marion and Stephen T. Thornton, Classical dynamics of Particles and Systems, (3rd edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego 1988), Excluding Chapters 4, 10, 11, and 13

QC 23 Sea

Classical Mechanics

QA 845 Mar

ElectroDavid. J. Grifths, Introduction to Electrodynammagnetism ics, (3rd edition, Prentice Hall 1999), Excluding Chapter 11 and Sections 9.4, 9.5, 10.2.2, and 12.3 Quantum Mechanics Statistical Physics David. J. Grifths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, (Prentice Hall 1995), Chapters 17 Franz Mandl, Statistical Physics, (2nd edition, Wiley, New York 1988)

QC 680 Gri

QC 174.12 Gri

QC 174.8 Man

Note: These textbook chapters identify the material that is examined in the Comprehensive Exam; the listed textbooks themselves are just examples. The same material is also covered by other books, and all of them can be used equally well when preparing for the exam.

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