Program Definition and 1000 Threads

Im still not 100% sure on engineering, last year i was set on civil engineering but took a year off and changed my mind too mechanical as it was more broad. I have accepted this program from seneca college in Toronto and was wondering what other engineers/professionals think of the program...

I've debugged and run my program without seeing any results from my "destinationVariable". What could be wrong? sub main() call myfunction() end sub sub myfunction() static myClock As Single myClock = timer if (timer - myClock) > 100 Then destinationVariable += 1 // This...

Hey guys, I am studying astrophys but i have a programming module, so hopefully this is the right place to ask. I have a few questions that I am having difficulty with so I am going to pose it in the form of a program if that's cool? I can then take it apart to see how its done. I'd...

Asked to Withdraw from my program, asking for advise :( Hello everyone, I've recently been asked to withdraw from the physics program i was in due to my grades. I've talked to some school counselors about my situation, they told me i should take time off and reflect on why I did so poorly and...

I came across these rankings for Top Physics Schools according to student reviews. Interesting! (link deleted) 1 University of California-Santa Barbara 9.467 2 Brandeis University 9.133 3 University of Pennsylvania 9.100 4 Syracuse University 9.056 5 University of California-Los Angeles...

Hi everybody, Like many people at the moment, I'm in the position of having to choose where I'm going to go to graduate school for a PhD. I'm contemplating two different schools. The first school is my undergrad institution, where I would work with a well known and influential advisor that...

Homework Statement F(x) = exp(-a x^2) cos bx for -100 =< x >= 100 , a=13 and b=7. Homework Equations ... The Attempt at a Solution program main implicit double precision (A-H,O-Z) implicit integer (I-N) DO I = -100,100 X = I * 1D0 F = DEXP(-A * X**2) * DCOS(B * X)...

link to program http://apam.columbia.edu/applied-mathematics i'm currently getting masters in applied mathematics (at top 40 univ) and I'm curious about two things: 1) how hard is it to get into APAM program for PHD? 2) what are some schools with similar program? I really like...

As I understand it, Felix Klein sought to classify geometries with respect to what groups G that respected the structure of the given space X. Lately i read in an article on "the history of connections" by Freeman Kamielle that Cartan wished to generalize this notion. Is it correct to think of...

Could someone advise me on starting a PhD program and leaving after 2 years with a Masters? Do people do this and what are the problems associated with such a course of action? For example is getting recommendation letters a problem and so on... The reason I need to know about this is that it...

I'm currently in a predicament where I'm not sure what school i should accept for physics. I've been accepted to both York U and Ryerson, and am waiting (hopefully) for my UofT acceptance. But as i am now, if i were to pick from either York U or Ryerson, which of the two would have a better...

Hi. I've been given an assignment, a starters assignment I should say, for Matlab. This is mostly about learning the basic functions of the program and it's my first ever experience with it. I hope I'm posting in the correct sub-forum. Homework Statement We're given a triangle ABC...

I have a Epson PictureMaid and HP 7410 Printer that I want to install onto my new Win 7 Home Premium desktop. I have the old disc for both of them and they both are not compatible. I know there is a way to run compatibility in Win7 and install the programs. I forgot how to do it, can anyone give...

what is program used as attached.thank you!

I've heard that often in the sciences(in my case, physics), that students often go straight from their undergraduate degree to a Phd. I've a also heard that this saves some time and money as you basically earn a masters as you go while being funded. Now at my school there is an accelerated...

Homework Statement mass = 100 Kg Cross Area = 4 Drag = .4 Initial velocity = 17.59 m/s Gravity = 9.81 Angle Changes according to the position of the mouse Terminal velocity = 31.649 ; Don't know if its relevant but I calculated this Homework Equations Y1 :=...

Hi! I would like to compile some *.for files (only standard Fortran77 statements) which only contains some subroutines and functions and link them with a *.res resource file and a *.lib library file (supplied by developers) into a windows executable. Is there any FREE program to achieve...

So I'm currently finishing up my undergraduate and heading to graduate school for medical physics. I have narrowed down which schools I want to go to to either UPenn or Vanderbilt U. UPenn would be for a Master's of Medical Physics with a concentration in radiotherapy and Vanderbilt U would be a...

Do you know any program for downloading Google books?

Hi, Does anyone know a program that I can put on my TI-84 calculator that will allow me to input any transfer function and get the state space representation of the system or the other way around. For example G(s) = \frac{\sum(K_{i}s^{i})}{\sum(P_{i}s^{i})} The calculator prompts you...

Hi, All: Just curious if anyone knows of any online or otherwise software to help compute the wedge of forms, or maybe some method to help simplify. Not about laziness; I don't have that much experience, and I want to double check; I have around 30 terms ( many of which may cancel out) , and...

Hi everyone, My 14 year old son who is an avid musician and composer, wants to do a science project that involves waveform analysis of tonal harmony in Western music, for example, why certain chords and chord progressions are more pleasing than others and whether the interference patterns...

Hi everyone can anyone help me in my code. I am trying to program a altera DE0 board to measure distance using a SRF05(ultrasonic range finder). I have written a code but now I am stuck. #include "sys/alt_stdio.h" //for the alt_putstr function below. Outputs to Eclipse console...

Hello, I am in my third year of a 4 year integrated MPhys at the University of Liverpool, and I'm starting to think about applying to PhD places. Me and my girlfriend are intending to move to London when we graduate, so I'm planning on getting a job as a graduate software developer or some...

Good evening (afternoon, morning, depending on where you are), I'm very interested in Arizona State University's Electrical Engineering program. It is one hundred percent online, just like the title says, and the labs are given to the student in kits. The advisers can't give me more...

Hello. The problem is : I've got an expression to optimize with 7 free parameters. Ranges for each parameter are given. the simpliest way to optimize is to organize a program like for { for {for ...}} for each parameter and to get the result. Are there any other methods for solving the problem...

I'm working on an Apollo re-entry program and would like to somehow check my results I got for re-entry. I'm using 3 DOF equations to calculate the trajectory of the spacecraft .Equations of motion: \dot{V} = -\frac{D}{m} - g\sin{\theta} \dot{\phi} = -\frac{V\cos{\theta}}{R+h} \dot{\theta} =...

I am sick of skype. It doesn't let you turn off history on iphone/android, and the history saved there comes flooding back to your PC when you start skype there. I want something that I can talk with, preferably without saving history at all, but at least having an option of turning it off...

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year! :wink: As you have probably already guessed, this New Year is especially important for me since it is the time when I fill the applications for US graduate schools on Physics. I am more than a little bit worried about my chances since, in case I won't enter...

Got offered a dean's award from here - http://roanoke.edu/ What do you think of their physics program?

I'm making a program that interprets and evaluates equations. I won't go into all the specifications, but basically it would take a statement like ~1^(2~&3) 0x3FFE 0x2FCE 0xFCC1 and returns 4926 (0x133E). As you may have guessed, the 1, 2 and 3 are where the parameters 0x3FFE...

I am looking to transfer from community college, and my school options are limited due to finances and my poor academic background. My only options so far are some unknown schools that are not even ranked 100 in the state, and they don't have any money to perform research. So I will probably not...

After harboring the aspiration to read Astrophysics and Mathematics (I love all things adhering to abstract and logical reasoning; as such game theory, logic, military strategics, mathematical proofs ), I'm now in a 4 years double major undergraduate program in one of the well-know prestigious...

Homework Statement I've written some C code that models the motion of two masses attached to a wall (and each other) by springs like this. The output file is 5 columns; the time, and the positions and velocities of each block at that time. I'm not sure how to visualise my data...

So, my company has quite a few old programs for calculating solutions to bearings, annular seals, etc. The calculations are iterative in nature, and none of these old programs are really integrated together, which is problematic. Plus they're in Fortran (or something else), and don't run on our...

I developed finite element program (MFEM) in java for BVP &IVP to compute partial differential equation. I am facing one problem and description is as follows my problem is on generalized eigenvalue problem generated in wave propagation through rectangular wave guide in TE mode. (Differential...

Homework Statement So, as part of a numerical methods module that I'm taking I have to write a report and MATLAB program which deals with some sort of engineering/physics based problem. The report essentially just outlines and discusses the problem. It's the initial idea which I'm looking for a...

I was given a C++ program (a hefty one at that) and asked to create a map of it. He added some more details (something about functions), and I left his office thinking I understood what he requested but now I realize I don't. I'll approach him and ask for more details but before I do that...

I am helping my son (who is a junior) begin researching colleges. He has always planned to go into engineering, but is now leaning toward majoring in physics. He knows he will need to get a masters degree, and probably a Phd at some point if he stays in physics. When he was looking at...

I am a medical student and I'm trying to find a good program that will allow me to draw PV loops like this: http://cvphysiology.com/Cardiac%20Function/CF025.htm I know in physics there also PV loops, so I thought someone might have a recommendation of a piece of software that would allow...

Homework Statement A simple method to get a random uniform variable of data type float, between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive) is: x = rand()/(RAND_MAX + 1); where x is a float. Write a program that fills an array with 1000 integers random numbers, then uses those to fill another...

Just starting to learn C#. I just wrote this program to add two numbers and loops by looking up syntax etc. There HAS to be a more efficient way to do this. using System; public class Program { static void Main() { bool repeat = true...

How would I create a java program to display an image?

#include<stdio.h> void main() { char c[]="gate2011"; char *p=c; printf("%s",p+p[3]-p[1]); }

I am trying to run a program with fortran. The program is about solving the Oscillator using Euler Method. I am trying to run this code and applying array arguments (as I want to extend it to 3 dimensions afterwards). When I try to compile, it comes up with an error "Unclassifiable statement at...

Homework Statement I think my program is complete.. What happen to this line? u(i)=sin(pi*x(i)); ?? Homework Equations n=10; c1=0; c2=0; k= 0.0025; L=1; h=0.1; alpha=1; T=0.025; n=L/h;m=T/k; lambda =alpha*k/(h^2); z=0:h:L...

I need to tabulate the data for u(x,t) vs x. Someone help me please :( this is the program. L = 1.; T = 1.; maxk = 2500; dt = T/maxk; n=50; dx = L/n; cond = 1/4; b = 2.*cond*dt/(dx*dx); for i= 1:n+1 x(i) = (i-1)*dx; u(i,1) = sin(pi*x(i)); end for k=1:maxk+1 u(1,k) = 0...

Homework Statement Solve the aforementioned system of nonlinear equations using Newton's method. write a program to carry out the calculations (it must use gauss elimination). Use the values 0-3 for x_{1}^{(0)}, x_{2}^{(0)} (ie. 16 data sets total). The Attempt at a Solution...

Im using Eclipse and I have an input file name that I am reading from but for some reason when the program ends there is no output file that gets created? Does anyone know what I am doing wrong here? import java.io.File; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.PrintWriter...

I have made a sketch on paper of my machine, but I want to draw it specifically in 3d, with places for wires to go and such details. If air resistance could be calculated that'd be great too. So what good software on windows 7 are there for this? For a start a free software would be nice...