Small problems in physics. Second part

Publication date 17 January 1999

Problem books (00A07) Physics (00A79) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-01) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60)

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The present book, which mainly concerns the interaction between radiation and matter, has a very special and interesting aim. It gives solutions to problems posed at the entrance examinations for the Ecole Normal Supérieure de Cachan (France) between 1995-1997. Although the author gives complete solutions, the objective of the examination was not to get the candidates to find the complete solutions but rather to observe the manner of approach with which they attempt to search for a solution. Accordingly, the organisation of the book differs also from ordinary ones. It involves three parts. In the first part 26 problems were announced very briefly without indicating any determinate objective. In the second part they are announced with some detail including necessary formulas and figures and, sometimes, with interesting short stories lying behind the problem. The last part involves the answers, which are rather detailed. As such the book may be useful not only for the candidates to the entrance examination for the Ecoles Normales Supérieures but also for all graduate students and young scientists in theoretical physics as well as in electronic engineering.

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