A Guide to Physics Problems, Part 1: Mechanics, Relativity, and Electrodynamics (The Language of Science)

If you're studying for your Quals, this is the book to use. Explanations are clear, and the problems are useful.

These are actual Ph.D. qualifying exam problems. Most problems are short and beautiful – and the solutions are elegant. The problems do not emphasize raw math crunching (solving a god-awful diff equation via series expansion…) – but focuses more on concepts and simple approaches to problems. If you are looking to get back to graduate school physics, chances are you will need to re-take the qualifying exams. This is the best set of books to prepare you for such an exam.For those looking for a more rounded approach to self-learning advanced physics, I had compiled a list of books:http://www.anujvarma.com/self-learning-booksfor-advanced-physics/

Used these books for my qual exam and found them to be perfect amount of problems where you could attempt 95% of with 1-2 months study.

I used this book to pass my classical physics quals at caltech. See my review of Cahn's quantum problem book for details, and why I think this is better than Yung-kuo.The difference with the classical one is that there were a few concepts I had to study that were not really in the book. Overall though, I still thought that this was a great collection of problems. If I had just done the problems in this book and nothing else, I probably still would have passed.

This book contains physics problems from many great universities and is a must for all students in Physics. The problems are all very original and the solutions given are very elegant. I will recommend this book to all people who enjoy solving Physics problems.