We give the detailed answer to Exercise 7.17 in the book of AIMA.
7.17 A propositional 2-CNF expression is a conjunction of clauses, each containing exactly 2 literals, e.g.,
$$(A \lor B) \land (\lnot A \lor C) \land (\lnot B \lor D) \land (\lnot C \lor G) \land (\lnot D \lor G)$$
a. Prove using resolution that the above sentence entails G.
b. Two clauses are semantically distinct if they are not logically equivalent. How many semantically distinct 2-CNF clauses can be constructed from n proposition symbols?
c. Using your answer to (b), prove that propositional resolution always terminates in time polynomial in n given a 2-CNF sentence containing no more than n distinct symbols.
d. Explain why your argument in (c) does not apply to 3-CNF.
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(Thanks to Lv Feng.)