Academic Definition and 291 Threads

Louisiana passes "anti-evlution academic freedom bill" Wow... :rolleyes:

Can anyone recommend a beginners book on QP that is academic in nature? I've just about finished Quantum Physics: a beginners guide. I found that it skimmed a lot information and the equations were not fully explained. Thanks :) First post :)

Academic as in a very keen student or who works in academia. Let's say a very apriori or theoretical field such maths or theoretical physics. Keep this into account when voting. I find that after socializing, I get too excited and can't concentrate on the work. However, not socializing leads to...

How would a criminal record (while obtaining a Phd) affect one's academic career, if any at all?

I thought of posting this under "Academic guidance," then decided to post here. This friend of mine (I'll call him Jack) has a female friend (Holly) who lives in Europe and whose college-age daughter, Emma, is a freshman in a major U.S. college. Holly asked Jack to check on Emma once in a...

Homework Statement http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9044/tayloriq0.th.jpg Homework Equations ? The Attempt at a Solution I have no idea - please help...

I want to know/see how possible these things could be: -An electron shield -An aircraft(military) propelled by nuclear fusion/nuclear fuel. -Using pure electrons as a weapon.

Hi. How would you start learning physics if you had no background in it? -If you hadn't taken calculus yet? Here is my situation: I have no background in physics. I haven't taken algebra 2 yet. At my school, algebra 2 is pretty much a class about very basic algebra again with a little...

Giving my first academic "talk" -- suggestions? This Wednesday I'm going to be giving my first academic talk to the nuclear group here at my University. The nuclear faculty, postdocs, and graduate students will be in attendance and I'm expected to give a presentation over my current research...

I have an academic planning issue. Since I never had any interest in mathematics or mathematical sciences in high school, I never took a course past Algebra/Trigonometry, and didn’t pay attention to any of my physics or chemistry courses. After I graduated high school, and started to read a lot...

This semester I've pulled out a lot of hair over my 'microprocessor design' course and was thinking. These R&D industry leaders must be damn smart - but what made them choose to work in industry rather than being an academic and pursuing research in that sense? I have many professors that...

Who introduced Hawking to Susskind. What was his original profession, and what was his profession when he introduced the two scientists.

I’ve just this weekend stumbled onto a major issue in my PhD. Annoyingly enough, only 2 months out from my projected submission date. I’m after advice from anybody on the forums who might be a senior academic/researcher who’s maybe come across something similar in the past. The background...

my friend asked me an interesting question today: "you can never be the best at anything, so why keep trying?" well, this is true. None of us can truly be the best at math, science, music, petry, whatever. There will always be someone somewhere better than us, and there will be someone...

Hi all, I am about to graduate this weekend with a BS in Physics. I applied to, got accepted to, and am going to attend the University of Southern California this fall. Specifically, I am pursuing an MS in Astronautical Engineering through the Viterbi School of Engineering. Since I was accepted...

I'm currently finishing my phd in astrophysics and ill be 28.5 yrs old when i do so. I'm now looking for a post-doc job and it seems to be difficult. I've attended top undergraduate and graduate schools but seem to have no offers or call-backs on my applications.I'm being told that younger phd...

As some of you might have read in my other threads I am thinking about studying physics at the university, but I have not made up my mind yet. One of the things that worries me is that the math and the general abstractness of the subject will be too hard for me to grasp. Math was definitely my...

Hey This will be my first post on this forum, but I have been reading posts for quite a while. I find it really insightful. Now, I could use some of the people here's help. I need to decide whether I should do Electrical Engineering or Physics. I have been offered early admission to the...

Hi folks, I'm wondering whether to return to academic physics from industry. :smile: I finished my physics degree with a minor in astrophysics over here in the UK when I was 19 years old. At the time, I applied for a few PhD studentships but didn't get offered one. Instead I was offered...

This has been on my mind most of this semester due to an incident that I was involved in the first week of school. Long story short, I helped a fellow student by using my work as an example, they handed it in as their own, I lost points on the lab because of it. I've attended 3 different...

:mad: We had a lab report that was due last week and was rather lengthy. So I worked through the problems together with my friend. We had to turn in individual lab reports. Apparently the TA thought they were too "simliar" and showed it to the professor. Now I got a letter in the mail from the...

Why are there so many good students of asian descent nowadays? Just take a look at this competition. http://www.siemens-foundation.org/2005Berkeley.htm#Michael

I propose that the stickied thread How to use this subforum: A disclaimer in the Academic & Career Guidance forum be added to the list of "required reading" guidelines, i.e. members must read and agree to those guidelines before they can post there.

Greetings, For a while I've been doing this little thing where everyone goes on and describes their semester for all to see. I'm a little late this time for those in the US, but the academic year over here only starts next week. I'll go first : I'm entering my last year of my master...

This was brought up somewhere a while ago and I think we should revisit it and enact it: make a sticky in Academic & Career Guidance, a disclaimer to the effect that students should not take this forum as a primary source of guidance but should consult advisors at their school, should take...

Did anyone read any good books with advice on developing your academic career starting from grd school? Or everyone is just spontaneous or listening to what your prof says. I find that for people, who are not absolute geniuses it's necessary to know this kind of stuff to succeed in making a...

Mine would be 3rd year 1-2 term and 4th year term 1 3.1 Funnest/Hardest-(woke up at 9am and slept at like 3am) Computer Graphics Neuropsych I Astrophysics: Stellar Quantum I Probability Theory Number Theory 3.2 Easiest Theory of Computation Combinatorics Automata and Langauge...

I've started a new sticky in A & CG. Give it a look : https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=76031

High Energy and Particle Physics programs around the world (courtesy Cern) http://graybook.cern.ch/institutes/ High Energy and Particle Physics programs in the US http://graybook.cern.ch/institutes/countries/US.html (thanks to Astronuc for the above two links) National Labs in the...

Hi, i need some advice on my academic path. im very interested in artificial intelligence and possibly hope to create a AI being that is truly able to think on its own. now which university course should i enrol? how abt masters? phd? and maybe which university is best for my interest...

Hi everyone, I am studying at the 2 year community college and look forward to transfering to 4-year-University after the next semester. But, I have one problem. I have 3Ws ( withdraw ) in my acedamic record. I think it will be a barrier when I apply to University. What do you...

I was just walking home from class and was thinking about the imbalance of what is taught in schools and colleges. I'll be graduating in May and I realized how focused the United States and other countries (I think) are towards math and science. However, when I look back at my college and high...

yup yup. So it's me again, deciding what to do w/ my life...from the beginning, this was what I wanted. I've always wanted to continue study after graduation and get a M.S; reason because I want to get an advanced degree, and also, I really do absolutley love going to school and being in...

Inspired by the talk about tuition fees in the "european degree terminology"-thread, perhaps the financial side of academic education could use an own thread? So, despite our daily proportion of intellectual food, I suppose phycists must eat: what does it cost to get an academic education in...

Is it okey if I post these, just to share good resources to get good info.? I was going to post 10 forums that relate to science, politics, and philosophy. If a moderator can respond please, I will go ahead and post the forums, thanks.

Hello everyone, I am a student living in Canada and I am in grade 12. We have finsihed applying for universities. Now the hard part is to decide which one to go to. (I'm thinking University of Toronto, Waterloo, Queens or Guelph). The main question I had is that I plan on going to grad school...

Next year at my little sister's high school a new program is being implemented called Academic Communities. This was funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From what I understand, the students will be divided into five groups specializing in a different area of study...

I'm now mentor for the "Academic and Career Guidance" forum? I'm not complaining- I think it's a worthwhile forum but I would have like to have had some notice beforehand!

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After browsing through a like minded thread in this forum, I too am seriously pondering going back to school to embark on a different career path. I have an Associate degree in Computer Information Technology (translation: garbage) which at the time had an emphasis on C+ (this was prior to the...

Hello everyone, I'm one semester away from transferring out of my current two-year school, and I'm looking for input on what Universities might be worthwhile to consider. I'll tell you a little about myself, and then I'd like to hear your opinions. Upon completion of this program, I will...