SUNY-Geneseo/Physics & Astronomy

PHYS 342: Advanced Physics Problem Solving

Fall 2016

Course Information:

 
Dr. Mclean's home page
Syllabus Required Course Materials  

Course Web Links:

  Get Acrobat reader
ETS Physics GRE home page Case Western Reserve GRE Flashcards  

Other Physics Grad School Stuff:

   
AIP's gradschoolshopper.com PhysicsGRE.com, about much more than the GREs GREPhysics.NET, mostly about solutions to published GREs of the past

This page has the questions most needing study from White Book Exam 2.

This page had the questions most needing study from ETS 2001 Exam.

Presentations

For Inverted Test: Spend 3 to 4 hours (may be broken into multiple shorter sessions) taking White Book Exam 1.  Mark on the scantron as many as possible WRONG answers.  (Marking mulitple wrong answers for one question is a good thing!  Maximum score would be 400.)

Dates
DUE & PRESENT 9/16
DUE 9/21, PRESENT 9/23
DUE 9/28, PRESENT 9/30
Subject Quantum (with Atomic Phys.)
PPTX or PDF
Classical Mechanics
PPTX or PDF
(Inverted Test) Special Rel., Lab Methods, Math
PPTX or PDF
Statistical Mech. & Thermo
PPTX or PDF
Oscillations, Waves, Optics
PPTX or PDF
(Inverted Test) E & M
PPTX or PDF
Specialized Topics
PPTX or PDF
(Inverted Test)
Chin   X  
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Cracium     X X       X    
Downs X           X X    
Finn X       X         X
Gallaro     X     X     X  
Ginnane   X       X       X
Harrison     X     X   X    
Jaworski     X X         X  
Kousar     X   X     X    
Ponce     X   X       X  
Shopes   X     X         X
Steidle X           X   X  
Ume X     X           X
Visca   X         X   X  
Yao X     X           X

Yellow background indicates leftovers from a previous year.
Links activated (white background) as they become available or are updated for this year.

Questions written by the class.
Classical Mechanics (answer) E&M (answer) Thermodynamics (answer)
Classical Mechanics (answer) E&M (answer) Thermodynamics (answer)
Classical Mechanics (answer) E&M (answer)  
Classical Mechanics (answer) E&M (answer) Lab (answer)
Classical Mechanics (answer) E&M (answer) Special Topics (answer)
Classical Mechanics (answer) E&M (answer) Special Topics (answer)
Classical Mechanics (answer) E&M (answer) Special Topics (answer)
Classical Mechanics (answer) Quantum Mechanics (answer) Special Topics (answer)
Classical Mechanics Quantum Mechanics (answer) Special Topics (answer)
Classical Mechanics (answer) Quantum Mechanics (answer) Special Topics (answer)
Classical Mechanics (answer) Quantum Mechanics (answer) Optics & Waves (answer)
  Quantum Mechanics (answer) Optics & Waves (answer)
  Quantum Mechanics (answer) Optics & Waves (answer)
  Atomic Physics (answer) Optics & Waves (answer)
Questions written by the 2015 class.
Special Relativity E&M E&M
Classical Mechanics Classical Mechanics E&M
Classical Mechanics Classical Mechanics Fluids, part 1 and part 2
Lab Methods Trivia Classical Mechanics
Classical Mechanics E&M Quantum Mechanics
Thermo E&M Special Topics. Astrophysics
Special Topics, Superconductivity Optics Quantum Mechanics

Practice Exams:

 NOTE: Please do not look these over until we have decided in class which will be reserved for use as mock exams

ETS 1985

ETS 1990

ETS 1996

ETS 2001

ETS 2008 Answer Fill-in Sheet
Solutions to the first four are available at GREPhysics.NET
White Book 1 White Book 2 White Book 3