Degrees Definition and 679 Threads

To study for a M.B.A. in Accountancy, M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, and a PH.D. Theoretical Physics/Physical Chemistry? And obtain those degrees? How long would it take?

hey, I am wondering if anyone knows of any universities in europe (excluding the UK) which offer bachelor degrees in physics that are taught in English, perhaps with an inclination towards theoretical physics? There must be a few of them around, but I'm not aware of any! I do know of a few...

Hi all, I am currently in the last year of high school, and currently I am considering what faculty to enter in University.. most likely Engineering or Computer Science, because the admission average for Science is way too high for me. I am mostly interested in physics, math, and computers. I...

The sine of 45 degrees is equal to root two over two or approximately.7071. I was playing around on my calculator when i stumbled upon the resemblance that sine45 degrees is either equal to or extremely close to the sum from one to fifty of the (square root of x)/10. Is there anything here or...

I'm not trying to sell you one! :biggrin: While having a coffee, I just read this interesting article in an old issue of Symmetry: http://symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000304 We all get these emails offering degrees but I never thought that so many people would buy them, or obtain jobs with...

Math Graduate Schools: Views on undergraduate degrees Hello How do graduate schools look upon students who receive a B.A. and a B.S? I am planning to do a dual degree with Columbia University, getting a B.A. in math/economics, and a B.S. from Columbia. I then want to go for a PhD in applied...

Hello everyone, I am thinking of going abroad to get a masters (or an equivalent) and then try to get into a U.S. grad school for my Ph.D. I was wondering whether this is a good idea in itself, i.e. perhaps many U.S. schools think that M.Sc. is for people who aren't strong enough for Ph.D., is...

Hello everyone, I need help with converting or changing degrees to radians in Microsoft Excel. Currently I'm writing SIN and COS functions but the default angles are in degrees, not radians. How do I format it to radians?

Functions that "introduce" new degrees of freedom? OK, I realize this is a wacky question, so forgive me! BUT I was thinking about it the other day, and suppose I had a 2 dimensional space \Bbb{R}^{2}. Is there any function that generally exists as: f: \Bbb{R}^{n} \rightarrow \Bbb{R}^{n+1}? So...

When reading in the web about decoherence especially in popular articles I find very often explanations that point out the fact that the environment has a large number of degrees of freedom. It is unclear to me in which extent and in which aspects this is relevant for decoherence. My...

I'm sure most people are familiar with the 6 degrees of Kevin bacon game. Here's something for folks to have fun with. The rules are: 1) You must name 2 relatively well known celebreties who have both appeared in at least one theatrical movie (i.e., not made for TV nor TV series). 2) You...

Out of pure curiosity, I'd be very interested to find out what degrees members have and in what subjects. Also, what you wrote for your dissertation to get your degree (s). I'm not yet finished school, so I haven't experienced university life. I know that I want to study geography, and get a...

Does anyone know why there is 360 degrees in a circle? Why not 100 for simplicity sake?

For the purposes of this thread LQG is defined in a pragmatic unrigorous way. Loop gravity is what loop gravitists do. That begs the question who are representative loop gravitists? Well it is a fuzzy set but I think we all have an idea who they are: people like Rovelli, Smolin, Freidel...

Anyone know of any specific colleges that offer degrees in one or both? I haven't seen many with degrees in Particle Physics. Thanks!

Having suffered strong depersonalisation and varying degrees of derealisation with anxiety for a month, I'm wondering if the depersonalised state is the highest and most critical state of being one can experience. I'd love to hear the experiences of others with this state.

Angular momentum is a vector, so alegedly it has 3 degrees of freedom. It has never been formally told me, but I noticed angular momentum is taken as two separate magnitudes and not three. i.e. in quantum mechanics there's an operator for \bf{L}^2 and for L_z and this should be enough. My...

So this is where I've been hiding all week. The first two days it was in the upper 50s and I skiied in a t-shirt under my ski jacket shell. On the 4the day (Wednesday), it was 11 at the top of the mountain and snowing. The snow was nice, but we couldn't see bcause it was snowing so hard...

I am refreshing my maths and came across this formula stated as a fact without explanation in a geometry text. How does this work? I would have thought (mod 2Pi) was the decimal portion of 2Pi but that doesn't multiply out to 180. Thanks, R.

Im a first year mechanical engineering student, and I think that I would like to do work with particle accelerators (beam physics and technology). Does anyone have any recommendations as to what specific degree(s) I should look into, and which schools have great programs? Thanks!

Yea it's almost deadline time to pick a college for me... Picking a college that has a good program seams important. And I'm not too sure what major would be best to pursue. I have thought about various Engineering degrees but mostly Engineering Physics or just Physics, but I'm not too sure what...

Is the output equal in amplitude to the original wave?

...and it is nearly Januarary. I have been living along the gulf coast of Texas for 15+ years and I can never remember it being so warm, not only that but so humid. I have been watching the local news and reading the local paper but seems as if no one knows exactly why this has happened...

When comparing the two degrees, what important aspects are missing on the physicist side when doing EE work and vice versa?

there are three axes when the angle made between each angle is 90deg. what would be the situation if this became 60deg. i mean how many axes would be there

Hi everybody! Could somebody please assist me with an explanation as to why the following: arg (z+3-2i) = 135degrees : has its centre at -3,2 and that is the place where you begin the argument (ie go 135 degrees) Please note, just beginning complex numbers. Sorry if can't understand question...

can someone give me a hand on this one? How many grams of water at 20 degrees Celsius can be converted into steam at 500 degrees Celsius with 10 kJ of energy? wat i know is that this question is 2 parts: Water being heated to 100 C (80 C change)using the specific heat of water n then...

Are there any benefits to getting a BBA (4-yr program), and then getting a BSc (hopefully followed by med-schoo). So basically, would one accomplish anything by getting business and medical degrees? Just curious

An angle is given to one significant figure as 7 degrees, meaning that's its value is between 6.5 degrees and 7.5 degrees. Find the corresponding range of possible values of the cosine of the angle. Is this a case in which there are more significant figures in the result than in the input data...

I have worked and worked at this problem and it is just not clicking. It is now that I wish geometry would have made sense to me. I am trying to find the resultant vector made by 115 km at 80 degrees and 85 km at 15 degrees. I have been using the graphing method my teacher showed me. I...

Hi, can someone explain me the relation between the degree of a taylor series (TS) and the error. It is for my class of numerical method, and I do not find a response to my question in my textbook. I mean when we have a function Q with two variables x and y,and we use a version of TS to...

I posted this in the homework help section but got no responses so I thought I'd try posting it here. I want the answer to the question, but really I'm looking for the relationship between the values. Q: A star located 135 degrees from the solar apex on the celestial sphere is at rest in...

My guess is that 360 has no mathematical advantage, but it has something to do with 360 (and something) days in a year, or it was derived from some other number of importance. :confused:

A claw hammer is used to pull a nail out of a board. The nail is at an angle of 60 degrees to the board, and a force F1 of magnitude 500 N applied to the nail is required to pull it from the board. The hammer head contacts the board at point A, which is 0.080 m from where the nail enters the...

Why was the number '360' chosen to be the number of degrees in a complete revolution? How far back does the number go?

1)I am very interested to know about studies being done into the uses of atoms at 0 degrees Kelvin (I understand this as the temperature at which atoms cease to oscillate?) Apparently this has possible uses as nano-computers whereby a normal object, such as a coin can house massive memory...

A 1.12 mol sample of an ideal diatomic gas at a pressure of 1.00 atm and temperature of 491 K undergoes a process in which its pressure increases linearly with temperature. The final temperature and pressure are 735 K and 1.39 atm. Assume 5 active degrees of freedom. Neither pressure nor...

Hi guys, Just a quick question. In my lecturers notes, he has mobility and degrees of freedom as different things. With a separate equation for each. However, when I went searching the net for some info because I couldn't understand the notes, I found it to be different. The sites I...

why radians are used in calculus instead of degrees?

the question: a board 2 ft long with weight 50 lb is pressed against a wall. what force, applied at 30 degrees, should be applied to keep it horizontal? i'm not sure how to go about this, so i started by converting the weight of 50 lb to 22.67 kg, then getting a force of mass at 2.31 N then...

Need help... secx=3.45 (0<=x<=2pi) (Accurate to 2 decimal places) secx=-5.2 (0<=x<=2pi) (Accurate to 2 decimal places) How do you do these questions?...i am getting mixed up by doing it on the calculator...use radian or degrees mode??...cos or cos-1?...and also about csc and cot too...can...

From the Comptom Scattering formula, you get (E-E')/E E' = (1/mc^2)(1-cos@). Can someone tell me how you could find E'/E at the min of 180 degrees. I've tried using the conjugate, and other methods, but I can't get E'/E out of it. I must be doing something wrong. Thanks.

A room has temp at +22 degrees C, and after 8 hours it has fallen to 15. What is the rooms "time constant" when the outdoor temp is -5 C? I have no idea what is beeing asked about here, could someone help me...?

hey all could anyone explain the idea of combining degrees ... when can i combine , is it when i finish from a certain major or ?? should both degrees be related to each others , i mean math and something related to it let's say quantum physics or whatever ... does every university provide...

A flash light is pointed at a wall so that the angle between the beam and the wall is 65 degrees a) which conic section is produced? I am not sure if this is asking for the shape but I think the answer is an ellipse b) How would you adjuct the angle of the beam to produce a circle on the...

so my given is 1.52 20degrees = 1.10 sin r im trying to find sin r which comes out to 18.9 degrees but I am not sure how find that, can somebody help me out please? so you do 1.10/1.52 do you divide that into sin 20?

Anyone know enough about TI-83s to help me out? For some reason whenever I try to graph a polar equation on mine it gives me what the graph should look like for radians when degrees is the mode of choice and vice versa. For example, if I were to graph sin(theta) I get a nice pretty circle when...

If an hour hand moves 1/60th of a degree each minute how many degerees will it move in one hour?

If I were to put about 80 g of lead into 80 g of water boiling at 100 degrees, after about 5 minutes, would the lead attain approximately 100 degrees or would it be significanty less?

I've heard there is a stigma attached with going to the same institution for both graduate and undergraduate degrees. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this?