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by: Joseph Molitoris  Dewey Decimal Number: 530.076 EAN: 9780878918485 ISBN: 0878918485 Label: Research & Education Association Manufacturer: Research & Education Association Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: June 26, 1991 Publisher: Research & Education Association Studio: Research & Education Association Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This test preparation book includes four full-length exams with detailed explanations modeled after the actual GRE in Physics. Knowledge of mechanics, electromagnetism, atomic physics, physicoptics and wave phenomena, quantum mechanics, special relativity, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, laboratory methods, and advanced topics tested. Includes a general physics review of all topics tested on the exam. For physics students bound for graduate school. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Unhelpful, irrelevantIf you studied for the GRE Physics test with this book you would probably do really bad. To be honest, the actual exam has very few involved calculations. Remember that you are not allowed to use a calculator, so all numbers tend to work out very nicely. The actual exam covers more concepts than really in depth problems. This book, however, deals with complicated problems. There are many differential equations that need to be solved, and then boundary conditions placed ... Read More Rating: - Horrible BookMany of the answers they provide are simply wrong. The content does not match the actual Physics GRE material. Rating:  - Really goodThis book covers a lot of material. There's much even a bright undergraduate student in Physics is not expected to have studied or ever encountered. But so goes the GRE exam too, to a lesser extent. This can be somewhat annoying for those who are accustomed to quickly and easily going through problem sets. However, provided you accept working on the exercises of this book as something which will add to your background and "enlightment", not merely as exercises that will test ... Read More Rating:  - Some of the answers are wrongAnd simple math answers too. For example, (1/2)(2/3) = ? They say it's 1/6. I'm of the opinion that it's actually 1/3. That's just one of several I've ran across. Still, it's better than nothing, but I think looking at your old college textbooks and doing the ETS questions is probably a better route. Rating:  - Let's seeHmmm I don't understand why there is so much negativity about this. I think the point is to get ur mind thinking and remembering all the stuff u learned in undergrad. I have only looked at a couple problems so far. One of them had a problem where u had to solve a VERY involved quadratic equation. Not that this is particularly hard to do. But it could easily take like 20 minutes to do by hand. Maybe ten minutes if ur quick. We'll see how it goes. 
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