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As a student studying for my high school diploma, outside of the USA or EU, how can I get into a university in the USA or EU to study physics? And will my diploma help me?

my class is doing the typical soup cna race this friday, and i am in desperate need of suggestions! we have to come up with the fastest and slowest cans, both stock and modified. Modified can include basically any addition or alteration to the can excepting the addition of motors

Hello, I just joined the forum 10 minutes ago. I found the site by searching Google for calculus forums. I'm a student, and looking for homework help. When I say help, I mean *I do my homework, then I ask for help and for folks to catch mistakes if any. I read the guidelines and intend to stay...

I have a rather unique situation and need some advice from people who are more familiar with engineering than my friends. :) I'll give you the questions first, and if you want to read the background info, you can continue on after that... I need to transfer. I'm a EE student stuck in a...

Has anyone heard of this title or seen the documentary. Well I was introduced to it by my roommate. I found it very interesting how one sided University's are, the majority of faculty hold very liberal views, I tested this at my own school (University of Washington) and based on my experience i...

I currently attend Cegep (Kind of like community college in Quebec. It's mandatory if you plan on going into university, and it replaces grade 12 and freshman year) and there's a bunch of talks for a student strike to try and prevent a planned tuition increase of 500$ for University in Quebec...

Anybody like to help a physics student who did their BSc six years ago and has forgotten all their maths! Its a problem from Andrew Liddle's Introduction to cosmology 5.5 The Friedmann eqn is (a'/a)2 = 8TTG/3 P - k/a2 Consider the case k>o, with the universe containing matter only, so...

I'm doing a double degree in Computer Science and Multimedia (4yrs), but they virtually teach NO MATH in this course (only 1 unit of pre-calc math mostly covering logic...pretty weak). Because I missed out on a lot maths in high school, I am extremely worried that my maths is deficient and this...

career option? i don't know how many times this has been asked(probably 347374 times, coz that's what this Academic & Career Guidance forum does:biggrin:), but being a stupid, i ll ask again:-p i want to do MS after my graduation. apart from clearing GRE test, what else i need to do to prepare...

http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/thesis_wise.pdf Derek has taken a position at UC Davis and been moving his webpages up there from UC Riverside. John Baez has discussed a chunk of Derek's research in a paper he delivered at a conference a few months back. Also Derek has summarized part of it...

An object moving along a straight line, at constant acceleration covers two equal, consecutive, 11 m long segments, the first one in t 1 = 1.0 s and the second one in t 2 = 2.3 s . What was the magnitude of acceleration? (in m/s2)

HI I am hesitating now about CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, since it has so many applications, NUCLEAR , beacuse I am kind of interested in it, and maybe it will be HUGE in about 10 years or so, when there is no oil :D and PETROLEUM , because it has the highest salaries! WHAT TO CHOOSE? I am at...

I know there is already a post on this, but I just wanted to make a point. I live in California, so obviously there is a great deal of controversy here by the coast and especially where I am (a small conservative community) whether or not warming is legit (long story short, I believe...)...

Homework Statement A 545N physics student stands on a bathroom scale in an 847kg (including the student) elevator that is supported by a cable. As the elevator starts moving, the scale reads 427N. Find the magnitude of the acceleration of the elevator. Find the direction of the...

Hi, I am a Korean(South) citizen finishing my undergraduate degree in Canada and planning to apply to US graduate schools. I heard that public gradaute schools are more stringent towards admitting international student because amount of funding is less available compared to domestic student...

http://realityconditions.blogspot.com/2007/09/quantum-gravity-colloquium-talks.html the colloquium was organized by f-h and well reported by Alejandro Satz. there were four talks and a lot of lively discussion Among the PhD students came from other places in Europe besides the UK was Eugenio...

An example of the work he's trying to do is: 1. A stream's current has a velocity of 10 km/hr. You and a friend are trying to paddle upstream at 6 kn/hr. What is the resulting velocity. 2. My problem is that I cannot find the formula or equation that he needs to figure out the...

Homework Statement A student tries to raise a chain consisting of three identical links. Each link has a mass of 200 g. The three-piece chian is connected to a string and then suspended vertically, witht the student holding the upper end of the string and pulling upward. Because of the...

I am a sophomore in ME at Purdue and we are getting ready to have our engineering job fair. I really (emphasis on REALLY) want an internship for this upcoming summer but my resume looks really...blah. I've never had another internship to put on the resume so I'm really starting from square one...

God how I love how they never teach you personal finance in high school or even college and having to learn it on your own. Anyway, I am looking to refinance some private student loans that I have. The ones that I have now have variable interest and are at 8.75% right now. Now I am only 2...

He claimed he was only carrying some fireworks from Wal-Mart. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20533248/ Found: One was charged with teaching the other how to use them. Our own forum guidelines have recently changed to address this and some other issues...

:smile: Hi, I'm new here (duh!). I just wanted to introduce myself. I am a first year BSc student hoping to major in maths. Seems like a fantastic site!

You thought creating the whole person concept would get you into the college you want, but now they want even more - authenticity. Now you not only need at least one typo on your college admission application, you need to make the right typos. And "I try to be too perfect" doesn't qualify...

i am currently momentum, work, energy and power in physics and i am currently confused in a few concepts. This question states that: A car with mass 1500kg accelerates from 0 to 100km/hr in 4 seconds. calculate the power output of the car. -- My teacher states to solve this question...

Normaly what do undergraduate physics students do in their final year report or thesis? 1. Create new theories? Unlikely but not impossible. 2. Simulation? What do they simulate and what computer programe do they use? Thanks.

EDIT: I'm extremelly sorry, i just noticed the sticky above my post saying not to post homework qustions in the forum. Dear Physics Forums, I am a 16 year old high school student currently doing year 11 physics. To do this weekend we were givin an exercise sheet with various questions...

Hey everyone, I really need some help now with choosing a laptop for the upcoming school year. This fall I will be a Computer Science student, and so it's important I choose a computer that will be most "appropriate." The problem is, I'm being told different things by different people...

Scholarship for pdD foreign student = ? hi guys, usually how much is the scholarship for a foreign phD student in US? Where can I find the list of scholarship for physics phD? thx!:smile:

I am a Junior Biology student.To start with, I love physics, and even though I didn't do well/not doing well in my "prehealth" physics courses, I love physics.I think I didn't do well/not doing well because of different reasons (like not attending classes).Anyway RECENTLY, I've been always been...

Academic advice Hi, I just finished my first year of university. By the end of fall, I had a 3.4 cumulative GPA and I was not really that proud of it. My friend from back home, also at the same uni., was always an excellent HS student. But the partying atmosphere got to him and he got a GPA...

A Student t test assumes normally distributed data with equal variances. I know you can test the Gaussian distribution with the Kolmogorov and Smirnov test and test the variances with the F-test. When data is not normal you use a non-parametric test (Mann-Whitney test), when variances are...

So for the first time I took a look at the details of my monthly student loan payment info and found out that of the roughly $320 I pay every month for my student loans $200 of that money goes to paying off the interest! How exactly is this legal? Why can't I pay off all the principal first...

Hello, I'm a student currently nearing the end of high school, so my knowledge of physics (or even general math for that matter) are somewhat . . . lacking. That said, I'm currently attempting to figure out the various simple principles that apply to rolling a pair of dice across a table...

Here's an interesting piece of news I found today: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18353425/&GT1=9246" Apparently a student wrote a violent essay for a creating writing assignment, and he's being criminally charged. The maximum jail time is 30 days. I'm no legal expert, but I'm quite...

I an a older student that would like to go back to college. I want to teach myself basic chemistry before i go back. Could anybody recommend a book, tutoring software, or website that can help accomplish this task?

Maybe you've already filled some of those evalution sheets where you have to comment on your professor's teaching style. This is a video of a professor who shows his students his "personal comments collection". http://unapologetic.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/student-comments/

hey can i talk with any ee student of university of michigan...:rolleyes:

If you had the option of learning some material from a textbook or from another undergad student who has done the subject the previous year, which would you choose? Or is it better do learn from the textbook and ask questions when it comes up?

International (Dutch) student, second Bachelor in Aerosp. Eng. "which school?" Hello everyone, I'd like to start off with a small disclaimer. I am new to these forums and know how it is - newbies posting threads that have already been widely discussed etc. Please believe me, I've scoured the...

I'm fairly new here and I was in search of some help to clarify some problems. I know that it may sound very easy to most on this forum but I seem to be having a tough time with straight-line (linear) motion problems. When being asked specific questions in a problem I notice that one has to go...

Hooray for long titles... Anyway, I wasn't quite sure where to post this, sorry if this is in the totally wrong forum. As you may have gathered from the title, I am attempting to make a physics based game. The primary equation in this game is Newton's gravity equation. F =...

ok so I got this serloin tip roast from the store I want to make. It's about 2.5lbs. Then only thing is ingredients are a bit scarce. I've heard you can cook a roast in beer? (only non-scarce ingredient available) and I've got S&P, garlic, baby carrots...um, green pepper(don't know what good...

Last week, I went to register myself for an additional course (graduate) in one of my free slots. I was given a form which required the consent of the professor teaching that course and my faculty advisor. Both of them had no objections with me attending the class. When I went to return the...

Hiho, long time since I've posted here. So I've been thinking about 1 or 2 things. Globular clusters are assumed to be the earliest structures formed in the universe because they are roughly the size of the Jeans length. But I'm thinking that if the universe was very nearly isotropic the...

Hey Im a physics student and was told that a mechanical engineer may think or i good idea to help so here goes... (this is what I've posted in the physics forum) Hello I have to complete an experimental physics project for high school physics this year and with help of the physics...

Here is a cool tour inside of a Genetics Lab. Make sure to check out the zebra fish mutants and the mouse guillotine! :eek:

Hi everyone I have a few conceptual questions about velocity and acceleration. Can an object increase in speed as its acceleration decreases? If it does, can you guys give me an example? Can an object have zero velocity and nonzero acceleration at the same time? Also give some examples...

Hi. I just recently switched into a physics course midyear, and I really don't know what's going on. Help with a few of these questions would be greatly appreciated. Homework Statement A 2.5 kg ball strikes a wall at 8 m/s and rebounds at 7m/s. The ball is in contact with the wall for 0.2...

I am a freshman high school student working on a scanning tunneling microscope for a science fair project. I need to build a vacuum for bottom up capabilities. If anyone can help with the STM or the vacuum it would be greatly appreciated.:rolleyes:

Hi I am a sophmore and I am taking physics. Its soming i have always want to do. I am thinking about taking it in college as a major. I am looking for a college in a big city that would be good for physics. I Have a 3.5 but play many sports and am involved in many extra things in and out of...