Would anyone here have an opinion on whether either of these MSc courses is better to have when looking for employment later? I'll already have a BSc Physics.
1) MSc Materials Science (at a much better ranked university than below, and includes some programming)
2) MSc Advanced Composites &...
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Please refer me to a very advanced mathematical physics reference that has applications in theoretical particle physics. I have seen the book Howard Georgi in Lie Algebras in particle physics but want more advanced ones. Any ideas would be very appreciated.Paul
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I have my GSCE in maths but since then have not been that involved with it. Recently I've got very interested in probabilities, statistics with particular reference to modelling tennis match outcomes. I'm struggling to break down and understand the below and what I'd like to do is...
I have a homework problem I need help with. I don't want the answer given to me since I know I can answer it with the proper guidance.
How should I approach this problem?
This is what I have so far. How should I approach this? Did I start off right?
Thanks in advanced!
I have a homework problem I need help with. I don't want the answer given to me since I know I can answer it with the proper guidance.
How should I approach this problem?
This is what I have so far. How should I approach this? Did I start off right?
Thanks in advanced!
A car is traveling at 25 m/s when it runs off the road and hits a utility pole. The car stops instantly, but the driver continues to move forward at 25 m/s. The airbag starts from rest with a constant acceleration from a distance of 50 cm away from the driver and makes contact with him in 9...
I've long had a fascination with optics and have deicded to study it seriously. I want to go from high school level education to being able to understand ’ðs; xÞ ¼ Ai s
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I want to get done by 2017 or before...I started college in 2012 and switched major to Electrical Engineering , double major Philosphy :D
come next summer I'll have the core engineering classes remaining and 7 philosophy courses to get that degree.
My question is how many advanced...
I'm going into Senior year. I live I have taken 9 (3 I paid for so they don't count as dual enrollment) dual enrollment courses and next year I'm taking 4 more. I've reached my limit on college dual enrollment courses yet I have 2 spots in my schedule. I would like to use these to take...
I've read Spivak 's calculus so I tried Sternberg 's book,IT IS kind of hard,because the abstraction is put upfront,I know of his other book with Bamberg, but a review on amazon deterred me from buying it,was I right in doing so?
Any adv.Calculus book that have some physics in it like Sternberg's?
The scenario is the following:
A society that is less advanced than the one producing a certain technology is exposed to the latter. The person who finds the device/fragment in question is either a A, layman, a B, trained engineer or an C, inventor/visionary, and the technology might range...
I am going to be an incoming freshman for engineering (undecided, big 4). I am building a schedule that I don't know how to build. Scored 5 ap calc bc.
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My schedule list is
* **English**: Freshman Composition (Honors maybe, i don't think this matters much)
* **Math**: Calc 3/Lin...
I am a meteorologist with Bachelor's Degrees in both Meteorology and Mathematics. I took an intro PDE course in college, but want to learn more. Can anyone suggest a book that would be a good book after only having an intro course?
Thanks.
This question was on Stackexchange, and no one was able to solve it. So now I'm posting it here, and I wish someone could help.
I'm trying to derive the Bloch equations[1] from the Liouville equation[2]. This should be possible according to this paper[3], where it discusses higher order Bloch...
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I'm an engineer who uses a lot of finite-element software for doing multiphyics modeling. I've been learning a lot about the foundations of the finite-element method, but I have a particulary nagging question that I havn't been able to get a satisfying answer to: Why do most finite-element...
I'm majoring in physics and I'm about to take a course entitled Mathematical Methods of Physics. It covers Sturm-Liouville Theory, Integral Transforms, Fourier Analysis and PDEs.
I read in the thread "So you Want to be a Physicist" that ”Mathematical Methods in the Physical Science” by Mary...
Show that the explicit Runge-Kutta scheme
\begin{equation} \frac {y_{n+1} -y_{n}}{h}= \frac{1}{2} [f(t,y_{n} + f(t+h, y_{n}+hk_{1})]
\end{equation}
where $k_{1} = f(t,y_{n})$
applied to the equation $y'= y(1-y)$ has two spurious fixed points if $h>2$.
Briefy describe how you would...
I have been given various corners which are x and y coordinates for a shape. The coordinates are listed in a vector e.g. xpoints = [x1, x2, x3, …, xn, x1] and ypoints = [y1, y2, y3, …, yn, y1] so that corner 1 would be (x1,y2) and corner n would be (xn, yn). I have listed the first point last so...
I wrote this small Excel macro to gather data from vehicles database:
Sub ImportCarQueryDB()
Call JSON2Excel("2,3,4,8,12,14,20,21,26,27,28,29,31,32,33") ' Specify which fields to extract/import
End Sub
Sub JSON2Excel(ByVal fields As String)
Filename$ = "C:\temp\fiat2.txt"...
i) IF $\frac{dy}{dt} = - \frac{∂H}{∂z}, \frac{dz}{dt}= \frac{∂H}{∂y}$
where H is a function of $y$ and $z$, show that $H(y,z)$ is constant in time.
ii) Take a $H(y,z) =Ay^2 + 2Hyz + Bz^2$ where $A,B,H$ are constants and show that solutions of the system lie on ellipses.
iii) Apply the...
Hi all. First year physics student here. I'm doing very very well in my course at my Uni (A++ after first midterm) I study by doing an insane amount of problems from 2 books. Both are about the same difficulty to me (Halliday, and the other is Young) is there a book anyone knows of that might be...
Investigate the stability of the PECE method where
P=Predictor : y_(n+1) = y_n + hf(y_n)
C=Corrector: y_(n+1) = y_n + h [(1-θ) f(y_n) + θ f(y_(n+1))], (0<θ<1)
and E is the evaluation step.
=>
substituting the predictor into corrector gives:y_(n+1) = y_n + h [(1-θ) f(y_n) + θf( y_n+ h f y_n...
Fint the modified equation when the implicit Euler method is applied to y'= f(y). If f(y)=λy, where λ is negative. what is the effect on the amplication factor?
=>
y ' = λ * y
dy / dx = λ * y
dy / y = λ dx
ln y = λ* x + C
y = Ae^( λ* x ), the constant factor does not depend on λ.
i...
So, I love physics and math. I have my first Science fair coming up, and I've dreamed about this day since I was five. Putting my knowledge into work that my peers can judge, and maybe spark interest in Physics for someone else. What project could I do that is Quantum Physics or really any...
For the equation dy/dt =y(1-ky), where k is a constant,find the fixed points and investigate their stability.
what are the fixed points of the modified Euler Scheme applied to this equation and what is their stability?
=>
dy / dt = y ( 1 - ky )
dy / dt = y - ky^2
dy / dt - y = - ky^2
Let v...
Fint the modified equation when the implicit Euler method is applied to y'= f(y). If f(y)=λy, where λ is negative. what is the effect on the amplication factor?
=>
y ' = lambda * y
dy / dx = lambda * y
dy / y = lambda dx
ln y = lambda * x + C
y = [ C / lambda ]e^( lambda * x )
This is what...
Hi everyone,
First I want to say that I hardly know anything about advanced physics, and I'm just looking to ask something that I've been thinking about for a while. So I'd also appreciate if you kept the explanation somewhat understandable :P
Anyway, here's my question:
If light from...
In high school I absolutely hated Physics. The class was just all about memorizing formulas and stuff, and I thought I wasn't learning anything useful for real life.
Yet now that I'm older I have re-discovered my passion for science and I'd like to give the subject another try. The Internet...
Hello my Math friends,
I have a complex integration problem:
The integral to calculate is :
Integrate[Cos [mx]/(x^2 + a^2), {x, -Infinity, Infinity}]
or if particularized for a=1, m=1 the integral will be :
Integrate[Cos [x]/(x^2 + 1), {x, -Infinity, Infinity}]
I know the answer for both of...
This is a semi-advanced question for anyone with HQET experience.
When you expand out the Lagrangian, as well as the wave functions, you get things like the equation of motion that are expressed in terms of the covariant derivative and the heavy quark velocity :
\def\lts#1{\kern+0.1em...
Homework Statement
Let T: C→D with dim(A)=n and dim(B)=m. Show that there exists bases B and B' for C and D, respectively, such that the matrix of T in block form is
M=|I 0|
|0 0|
where I is a k by k identity matrix
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
Honestly no idea...
Hi guys, I'm currently an undergraduate, but I'm going for a simultaneous Bachelors/Masters in Physics. I've already taken advanced math courses in the following subjects: Combinatorics, Real Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, and Numerical Analysis, and I have also studied some Gamma...
Hey Everyone! I was wandering what applications (if any) advanced math topics like topology, functional analysis, abstract algebra, etc. have in Mechanical Engineering. Thanks a lot!
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I know this is not the right place for this post but I cannot post in the science education subforum so I post my question here. I need a good resource - textbook, online resource, video lecture etc.- that explains the multivariate calculus really well; the topics I want...
Advanced Project -- Wheatstone Bridge for TCR measurements
Ok, so I have to do this experiment on my own as part of my coursework this year and I picked something called the temperature coefficient of resistance.
I think I basically have to determine the TCR or copper and I'm almost...
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Ever since I can remember, I've been trying to create models of reality that would help me understand the world around me. I have this innate obsession of understanding the world, and I always end up burning the midnight oil, studying topics that I'm not familiar with (mostly physics...
If I have a x,y table of discrete datapoints with a discrete dataset, such that delta x is not a constant, what are some of the more advanced techiques that I can use to integrate this?
I remember that there were Trapezoidal rules and Simpson's rule where delta x IS a constant (and there are...
Which one would you choose for a MS concentration? And which field would be more theoretical and have more opportunities? sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum.
I'm trying to understand some fluids concepts that don't seem to be covered in very much detail in introductory fluid mechanics textbook. Specifically, these topics include pumps (gear pumps mainly) and shear-thickening fluid behavior in pipe flows and in said pumps. Any ideas on good...
I'm 1st year mechanical engineering student, I'm following "advanced engineering mathematics" by Erwin kreysizg. Is that book enough for the mathematical content for the next four years or else is there any more advanced math that i must take up after finishing erwin kreysizg.
Homework Statement
4^x + 6(4^-x) = 5
Homework Equations
log? since this is the unit we are doing, but I'm not sure if it applies.
The Attempt at a Solution
I was thinking of changing 4^x to a variable like 'a', but 4^-x is not the same so I can't replace that with 'a' as well...
This is kind of sad, but I'm beginning to realize how much I rely on my graphing calculator any more for solving equations and whatnot. I am trying to incorporate a much simpler calculator from time to time (CASIO fx-260) and am struggling with some very basic operations.
Say I have the...
Hey guys, I am wondering whether there is any book out there that approaches EM field using differential form and on the same or more advanced than Jackson, I have a solid knowledge of differential form and algebraic topology, thanks :D
After Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Numerical Methods, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, what math subject comes next? List as many math subjects as possible. But they need to be in order.
Homework Statement
Twice the supplement of angle 0 is 104 degrees greater than four times the complement of angle 0. Find 0.
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
I'm not sure where to begin. I'm good with angle relationships, all I need is the equation.
I was having a discussion with my friend about alien life and we both kinda agreed that for life to be intelligent, it must follow the same path as all intelligent life in the universe. If we say that all life through the universe is Darwinian, then for a species to be intelligent it must have...
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I've started the course of Physics at college last year and I need some advice right now. My main areas of interest are General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, and these theories as well as every math needed to understand them wouldn't be covered in the course in detail (General...
In a truly technologically advanced society everything is available to all for little money. If such a thing does not happen then there is no technological progress.
In 1983 the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cell phone was 4k and as heavy as a brick. The battery only lasted a 1/2 hr. Nowadays...