Mechanics and special relativity: tutorial problems with solutions

TL;DR

This manual provides detailed solutions to 230 problems in mechanics and special relativity, used in undergraduate tutorials to enhance students' understanding through multiple solution approaches.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive collection of solved problems with multiple solutions, tailored for teaching mechanics and special relativity at the undergraduate level.

Findings

Multiple solution methods improve conceptual understanding.

Extensive problem set covers core topics in mechanics and relativity.

Resource aids in teaching and learning through practical problem-solving.

Abstract

The manual contains (in Russian) solutions of 230 problems that were used by the author for a number of years at the tutorial seminars in the first year undergraduate course in Mechanics and special relativity at Novosibirsk State University. The manual consists of 36 chapters - according to the number of seminars in this course. In each chapter, from 5 to 10 problems are dealt with. Where possible, several solutions of the same problem are given in order the students to become used to treating physical phenomena from different points of view. Most problems are taken from the problem book Yu.I. Belchenko, E.A. Gilev, Z.K. Silagadze, V.G. Sokolov, Collection of problems in the mechanics of particles and bodies, Novosibirsk: NSU, 2000. For such problems, the corresponding number in the problem book is indicated in parentheses.