Yale Definition and 51 Threads

Hello everyone, this is my first post, so go easy on me! Thank you to those who are able to help. 1. Homework Statement The problem is taken from Professor Shankar's Fundamentals of Physics exercises (Problem 3). Romeo is at x = 0 m at t = 0 s when he sees Juliet at x = 6 m Romeo begins...

Hi All, I found a free online course Physics from Yale I thought that must be pretty good well after watching the lecture and starting with the first problem I think I found something that is incorrect. Is anybody willing to tell me that i do somehting wrong (most probably I would expect that...

There are these Yale Open Courses on physics by Professor Shankar. I'd like to know if I'd be okay just watching the lectures and doing the practice problems or should do all of what I just described and also get the book Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity and Thermodynamics by...

Open Yale Courses | Physics those are two courses on fundamental physics but for what grade they can be taught ? they are for high school or undergrad ?

My QFT professor said he taught graduate QFT at Yale in the Fall of '96 and that the course he is currently teaching us is almost identical to it. If possible, I would be interested in seeing the exam papers. I've googled but that yielded nothing. Is it possible to view past exam papers from Yale?

Yale University: Lectures by Ramamurthy Shankar http://oyc.yale.edu/physics/phys-201/lecture-19 IIT Madras: Lectures by Prof. V. Balakrishnan MIT ocw: Prof. Alan Adams http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2013/other/lecture-1/ Oxford University: Prof...

Yale professor James Rothman, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine, to prospective biomedical researchers at a panel discussion about declining federal funds for science research in Washington, D.C. last year...

Hello all, I'm trying to compile a list of schools (mainly in the US) that offer Ph.D. programs with research in radio astronomy. Here's what I've come up with so far: Caltech Cornell Harvard New Mexico Tech Ohio State University UC Berkley UC Los Angeles UC Santa Cruz University of Arizona...

Are Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Yale universities just names ?? Certainly the most successful people graduate from these universities, is this because they somehow attract only the bright students, or is it because the quality of education and teaching...

Hi All Let me start by saying that I am new to this forum and I am new to physics. I've always had an interest in getting an entry level understanding of Newton's Laws of Motion. I also apologize if these questions are a bit stupid or overly covered in other posts. I watched a Yale video...

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...

Unfortunately the main story appears to be under a "Science" pay wall. Here is a commentary and short summary on the disturbing event. http://observationdeck.io9.com/holy-****-this-sabotage-story-is-the-stuff-of-researc-1538150751

Monkey and hunter -- forces, vectors Homework Statement I'm currently supplementing my institutional education with some me-time study. I'm studying maths and physics A-levels (or, rather, A-level equivalent). Yale University has an awesome "online courseware" which makes available to...

Hey guys. I have some trouble understanding how the F-test is used for testing the viability of a regression model. Before I delve into the background/question, just wanted to post a link that discusses the topic briefly: http://www.stat.yale.edu/Courses/1997-98/101/anovareg.htm So, coming...

I have a GRE score of 6.0 writing, 170 reading, and 168 quantitative, and a 4.0 GPA. I also have 4 semesters of soft matter theory research and 1 summer of particle physics theory research. I'm applying to do theory to many schools, including MIT, SUNY Stony Brook, Stanford, Harvard, UMass...

I am a high school student and I want to get the most rigorous math education available in algebra and geometry. I was thinking the SMSG books from yale univ, but that may be outdated (they use stuff like "truth sets"). How about this plan: Starting of with basic math by lang Algebra by...

I was reading a Utility Guidelines document (Yale, for internal systems, but publically available) and came across an interesting clause: No piping, fittings, or specialties manufactured, fabricated, and/or assembled in China, Taiwan, or India are permitted on any project including those...

The Philosophy of Cosmology is a new field of study at Oxford and Cambridge in Europe, and Rutgers, Columbia, NYU, Yale and UC Santa Cruz in the United States. Apparently they got a million dollar grant from Templeton foundation to create this new field of study. I am asking if this...

Hi, I am teaching myself the discrete math using the "Discrete Mathematics Lecture Notes, Yale University, Spring 1999". And I don't how to prove the practice question below: Prove that |A∪B|+|A∩B| = |A|+|B|. The textbook provide answer like below: The common elements of A and B are...

do physics professors still misunderstand Einstein?? i registered at this site just to ask this question: why do physics professors still talk about gravity in terms of "pulling"?? i download podcasts of physics courses at Yale, Berkeley, etc... yet i always hear these guys say things like...

I'm not sure if this is the correct sub-forum to post in, but I am in need of some advice on what to do. I am 24 years old and I live with my mom and my half-sister. I started my undergraduate career recently after a long feud with my mother. My mom says that a physics degree is useless, and...

I realize that there are many more than adequate schools where I can go to obtain a PhD, but my current goal is to get into one of the top 30. I truly have no idea of the competition, hence the question. I am going to the university of connecticut and came in with 38 AP credits and will graduate...

My freshman year GPA wasn't horrible - I got between a 3.6 and a 3.7, but I had a very difficult time adjusting to college for a variety of reasons. I've just finished my second semester of my sophomore year, and things have settled down a lot, and my semester GPA was in the mid 3.9s (and I was...

I am posting this from a friend's account since I've been unable to register for a while. Brace yourselves for this is going to be a long post. ----------------------- TLDR: I am trying to figure out the reason for AlSi's lower than expected from atomic misfit solid solution hardening...

Hi, here are my credentials. 2008-2010: First two years of BSc physics at Imperial College London - 89% in my first year and 69% in the second year. 2010-2012: took gap years due to financial difficulty 2012-2013: Final year of BSc Physics at Imperial College London - expected to obtain...

Homework Statement I took this form Yale Open Course Homework Equations Special Relativity equations The Attempt at a Solution I will try to divided this problem into two parts: First one is - what is its location in my frame when it ticks 1 second in its frame? and second one - If...

Today I did the usual thinking, watched some courses online etc. and found out(or rather reminded myself) that the EM waves can be produced only when a charge oscillates.(or that's what the professor at Yale said) But then I remembered LED diodes, and their ability to emit light. Electron...

Today I did the usual thinking, watched some courses online etc. and found out(or rather reminded myself) that the EM waves can be produced only when a charge oscillates.(or that's what the professor at Yale said) But then I remembered LED diodes, and their ability to emit light. Electron goes...

I saw a similar study by Yale psychologists, the results were roughly the same (they were mostly 1 or 2 points higher in most categories). http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-college-major/ Legally "mentally handicapped" person's IQ < 70 Average IQ = 100 by definition...

http://oyc.yale.edu/physics/phys-200 http://oyc.yale.edu/physics/phys-201 I'm starting college in September and have never taken Physics before, so I am preparing by reading different books and watching some videos, and was wondering if this course is worth watching because the curriculum...

Hi, i plan on one day going to university, either University of Toronto or University of Waterloo. Waterloo is not internationally known while U of T is but it's programs are apparently extremely hard and the bell curves are ridiculous (knowledge from months of forum discussions, couldn't be...

"Why X college?" essays Hi, I will be applying to college for entry in the fall of 2013. For many of the colleges I'm considering, there is a required "Why X college?" essay. I have no clue how to even begin answering this question. I can think of a few things, such as the kind of student...

Hello Pals, My fiance is going to school for chemical engineering. I have read the statistics pertaining to on-the-job fatalities and general risks associated with this career. I warn him daily that he will face substantial risk to his health resulting in, but not limited to; face splash...

Needing help choosing a university for eng! Big decision! Hey guys, long story short I am a 17 year old in southern Ontario kid who has been admitted to every university I applied to mechanical engineering. To make things simple, I have narrowed the my choices to two universities: Queens and...

Hi everyone. I wrote a little about the pressures that I am facing right now. I know that many of you here have infinitely more wisdom than I have, and have the clarity of hindsight, so perhaps some can provide some good advice. This time of the year is one of the more stressful for...

Or in other words, are a lot of geologists pretty crazy and funny at the same time? I'm getting this sense just by looking at the presentations of the geologists at the Yale Geology & Geophysics open house. It makes me wish that people in other fields had the same sense of humor that...

I am interested in nuclear theory, and I was accepted to both Duke and Yale. I really like the research at Duke, and my best friend was admitted to the Duke law program. I also know that Yale has an excellent nuclear physics program and is generally regarded as the better institution. Am I crazy...

Hi all, My mom has always wanted to go back to school, but could not due to work and having to take care of the family. I recently showed her some free online courses offered by Stanford, and she's expressed interest in two of them: Anatomy http://www.anatomy-class.org/ and Model Thinking...

I am a senior who is applying to PhD programs in math. I am almost done with the applications, but should I apply to more schools? Undergraduate Institution: One the top state schools (ranked top 10 in math) Overall GPA: 3.88 Math GPA: 3.95 Courses: I have taken graduate level algebra...

I need help with a problem from yale physics open courseware?? Homework Statement Romeo is at x=0m at t=0s when he sees juliet at x=6m. a) romeo begins to run towards her at v = 5 m/s. Juliet, in turn begins to accelerate towards him at a =-2m/s^2. when and where will they cross? b)...

Can anyone tell me what mathematical skill did the professor use for finding gamma in his first lecture? Thank You

I don't know.

Hello Friendly Community! I recently was accepted to Yale College for undergraduate, and I was wondering what people's impressions of it were, either anecdotally or personal experience? I am particularly wondering about quality of teaching, I have heard horror stories about teachers not...

I have fortunately been accepted to both Cornell and Yale's applied physics PhD programs. They are my top contenders right now and I am trying to decide between the two. I will visit both schools. But at the moment, I would really appreciate your opinion on these two schools. My interest is in...

It can't possibly be easy for most students to get into Berkley can it, the counselors at some of the 2 year colleges are giving engineering students who visit their offices the transfer requirements to apply to Berkley for admission, this was the case at 2 school's so far, but only really...

I'm just wondering, but if you are a good student at HYPMS or maybe even UPenn, is there a good chance of earning near 100K fresh out of college? Or is this just a big misconception that most ambitious high school students have?

Hi, I am eager to apply at the applied physics department of yale university. I completed my BSc in Electronic Engineering and Msc In Radio and Space Science. My academic profile is given below. Masters Result: Moderate Undergrad GPA:3.22 Publication: three (one IEEE journal as first...

Hey y'all: This is a sort of follow up to the thread: 'New Yale Internet Physics resource' In addition to PHYS 200 - Fundamentals of Physics, Fall 2006, they have put up the videos and materials for ASTR 160 - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics, Spring 2007 at...

Yale has just made Physics 200 freely available as an internet not-for-credit resource: http://oyc.yale.edu/physics/fundamentals-of-physics/" . Shankar has a reputation at Yale for being a good lecturer. Enjoy.

Not sure why this never came out before, though I can see why Kerry would want to suppress it... http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-07-kerry-transcripts_x.htm