Year Definition and 999 Threads

I just finished precalc and have done a little bit of studying this summer of basic calculus. I don't know what is on the calculus ab/bc curriculum so could anyone here who has taken the class before tell me what I am missing? Here is what I have done so far in calculus over the past...

Season is almost over, so did you go on vacation, or?.. http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/americans-refuse-vacation-days-lag-rest-world/story?id=11361600

Hi all, I'm in an M.S. physics program, and am about to graduate May 2011. I do not have anything published yet, despite a summer's worth of research (which was very slow-going!). I want to be a theoretical physicist... a competitive field. So: I need extra time to publish something ebfore I go...

Hey guys, Totally new to the forum, but I have been studying physics since the age of 16. I graduated at 16 from high school and applied to several colleges, I was accepted to a few awesome colleges, but because of my financial situation at the time, was unable to go to college. I since then...

Let me explain my situation in short terms. 1. to get a degree here(malaysia), we'll need to work on an undergraduate final year project which is sort of alike thesis? basically an undergraduate research program. 2. I like theoretical or computational physics. Well, perhaps the math, quantum...

Hi, I will be a 2nd year EE student as of next september and I need to choose a stream (I am in a 3 year program and I'm from europe). There are 3 main streams but I already ruled the Electrical Power stream out as it doesn't seem for me. The 2 streams left are the Electronics stream and the...

Hello there, I am currently 14 and 1 and a half weeks away from starting high school and over my summer break I've developed a strong fascination in theoretical physics, especially in the brane theory(which involves the notion that there are actually 11 dimensions of space and one of time) and I...

It's a big goal, I know. I'm going to a top-20 in its field undergrad school (for chemical engineering). It's a state school in my state, but a solid school nonetheless. I wasn't the best student in high school. I say that after graduating 3rd in my class, but in all honesty, I didn't...

So I just completed my first year of Physics at my university. It could have gone a lot better, but I got sick with Crohn's and that really screwed things up. I'm not sure if physics is right for me, so I need input. The thing that makes me really question my self is that all the other physics...

1. My school's divided into 4 terms per year. 2. I decided to rack up on math completely for the first year. To begin with, I'm told that no one can decide for me what's the best way to arrange my schedule, I just know I'd hate taking a physics course and its prerequisite concurrently. Also...

Hello all Next year I will be attending college for engineering (top 10 nationally). At the orientation they said that the average GPA of the freshman class at the end of the first year is a 2.9 (this is quite alarming to someone who is used to getting A's). When I asked the peer advisors how...

Hello, I just finished school and I want to study physics, but I have to wait about 1.5 years until I can start with it. What would you recommend to stay in touch with physics during that time? Reading books would be the thing I came up with, would you say that reading in forums like this...

If Astronomers stated that they had using the Hubble telescope found a remote island on the Earth with 1000 meter tall Homo sapiens we would based on scientific knowledge and logic concerning the biological limits of animal structure (any land based animal that moves on the surface of the earth)...

hello everybody, I am going into my 3rd year as an EE major, usually between semesters ill either prep or try to learn more tools for my tool box. my question is this: are there any tools (languages, certifications, subjects, etc.) that would "really" aid me when i enter the workforce...

Hello Everyone! I too am a new member in this forum. I would like to thank Karkas for starting a thread on a topic, I spent the chief of today looking for on the internet, but, without much success. I too am a 16 year old, and my interests are somewhat similar to Karkas's with an addition...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xePgC8wHDXI&playnext_from=TL&videos=7LWJAQz6KJ8 Maybe the world really is going to end in 2012 with people running around raising their kids like that.

So I was planning on getting into research next year for my Undergrad in Physics and so I self studied, trying to get ahead in my classes. I talked to my counciler about it and she told me to just talk to one of the professors. During Mid-Semester I talked to my quantum professor as well as...

Hi I'm a sophomore and I'm barely getting into research now. I plan to do an REU next summer , Junior year, and one after that, Senior year. Do grad schools even get to look at what you did Senior year summer? If so, that would mean we basically only have 3 summers to do research. freshman...

Hi, I am an EE student and I'm nearing the end of my first year from a 3 year course. I am quite sure that I want to continue studying after I obtain my degree, however I'm not sure what I want to study just yet. Is this normal for someone at my stage? Or should I already have a clear picture...

I have a code in Matlab where I need to measure the radiation on a specific latitude over a year. I have my time steps in hours and I am iterating over a year. I have parameters for the amount of radiation per hour in a 24 hour period, but my problem is that I want to loop this 24 iteration loop...

Can someone recommend me some good books of those subjects? EDIT: Sorry, I meant calculus, not chemistry.

Basically, I skipped A levels and went right into Bsc Economics & Finance. I'm graduating this year and am planning to take a second degree in EEE because I don't like my current degree. I choose EEE because I have passion in science and technology, and working in the tech sector is something...

Homework Statement I get to do a project and paper on anything I want that has to do with chemistry in any way. Homework Equations any The Attempt at a Solution I've thought about doing it on electromagnetism, but I'm not sure where I want to go with it. I thought about doing the...

Currently, I'm a junior Biology/Studio Art major who became disillusioned by the allied health field very early on and then the biological research field very recently. I have been looking for something else to do with my life, but every subject (psychology, English, chemistry, biology, history...

Ok so I started this year as a pre-health major so I took the non-major physics classes (non calc based) and enjoyed them so much I want to take the calc based classes and start anew with physics next year. I did mechanics in semester 1, and E&M and optics and briefly touched on modern physics...

I've heard from a few people that chemistry courses get quite hard when the 2nd year starts. I would have thought since you start to specialize in chemistry there will be a lot of overlap between classes which would make things a bit easier. I was thinking about trying to double major so I can...

redshift ""first year astronomy"" how do i find distance using redshift? please keep in mind that this is first year astronomy course i am currently taking having some trouble doing it. don't know where to start

Hello, I'll be finishing my freshman year of college soon and I'm pretty saddened as to the results of my academic performance. I am currently a Physics major and after my first semester I pulled off a dismal 2.7 gpa. This semester I was working for a big change, but I guess this was mainly talk...

I love physics, especially particle and astronomical physics, and for my intel research class which I will be taking next year, I would like to study them more. For this class, I need to choose a topic of study to which the answer is unknown or poorly understood and "play scientist" for a year...

Hi all, First I just want to say that I find this forum really interesting and very helpful - so thanks to all those who answer these questions! Onto my questions - I am a Junior physics major considering what classes to take next year. I am lucky enough to have all of my requirements...

It's been a while since I've posted here, but since my last post I've become more entrenched in the terrifying mess that is late junior year/early senior year, and the college hunting and decisions that come with it. I realize there are tons and tons of threads about this stuff, but I have some...

Hope this is in the right place. I'm 13 years old and I would like to self-study physics. I've study most of calculus and some differential equations and linear algebra. But due to my eagerness and perhaps lack of guidance I have many gaps in my foundations. As I have little access to books...

Homework Statement Consider two friends who go to Burger King every day for lunch. One of them orders a double whopper sandwich large fries and a large coke (total cal = 1600) while the other orders a whopper junior small fries and a small coke every day (cal = 800). if these two friends are...

I was watching a video on the scale of the observable universe. At the end, it shows the famous WMAP imagery and at the bottom it reads that the age of the observable universe is about 13.5 billion years old, but that due to the expansion of space the actual age is closer to 93 billion years. I...

Switching research groups as a 1st year grad student Hi, I am currently a 1st year graduate student in the field of experimental condensed matter physics. As an undergraduate, I conducted research (albeit somewhat limited, as I as an undergrad) in this field and found it satisfying, and...

I have never done any programming (except very basic python stuff in 1st/2nd year physics), and I want to learn some a bit more in depth over the summer. Can anyone recommend which programming language I should learn? What's most-widely used for physics/astrophysics?

hey guys, i need some advice as to which math class to enroll in. i just got accepted to college and will be starting first semester of freshman year in september. i will be a math major, and i am really comfortable with math. So right now, i am in ap calc BC and i am confident that i can get...

Hi there! Just asking for a website with a detailed list of winter/summer schools, workshops and so on for the full present year, related with quantum gravity. Thank you very much in advance.

¿Where can we find a summary of the discoveries of every year? Hi I was thinking in which were the most important discoveries last year, for example, and I have to recognize that I have no idea. I suppose that if you read newspapers, magazines... you will learn a lot, but in a year there are...

Hi everyone, I'm a final year student majoring in physics in china, but I feel very confusing about my future. since I have not applied for any master or PhD program this year, I plan to work for a year before I make any decision regarding my study next year. Personally I am interested in the...

I am a junior in AP Physics (Mechanics). At my school, there are about forty seniors and two juniors in AP Physics C Mechanics and two seniors in AP Physics C E&M. The other junior isn't doing to well in mechanics; he is signed up for E&M but my teacher is trying to dissuade him. During my...

That's x years, because I'm not sure how long it will take me. I'm a young husband and father, and currently cannot handle more than the 6-9 credit range. I want, no.. yearn to have a career in physics. I excelled at it and mathematics while in high school (at least enough to have several...

http://pirsa.org/10020079/ Great talk about cool results. Perimeter has videos of a lot of excellent valuable lectures on line but if you would only watch one, be sure it's this :biggrin:

I was accepted to a PhD program in Materials Science and Engineering at a prestigious university and I find myself reconsidering immediate entry into the program. I am very intent on earning my graduate degrees from this school, but I would prefer to begin classes in the Fall of 2011 if given...

Hi everyone I will try to be brief. I have completed my junior year as a mathematics undergrad. I am seriously considering taking a year off before my senior year as an undergrad. This is not so rare at my university. I want to do this because I realize I have a very poor foundation in...

Homework Statement Why does a superconductor have a greater magnetic field because of a. its interior has no magnetic field and b.it has no electrical resistance Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution

Hi, I'm looking for advice on how to look for summer research in physics. I don't even have a area I'm looking for, anything thing is fine; I'm just looking for experience. Most of the programs for summer research I seen at my school are for 2nd,3rd,4th years. I'm at a pretty big school (Uof...

Do you think it is possible to complete a PhD in theoretical physics in just one year, since no experiments have to be done?

Zhonghui Liu of the University of Hong Kong has made the most comprehensive deep-sea core research to date http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5918/1187?ck=nck. Global SST's fell by an average of 4.5 to 6 degrees F at the E-O boundary, with temps near the South Pole and North Pole...

This is the schedule at a 2 year college by the way for about 19 units: Monday Chemistry from 11:30am - 1:20pm, Math from 4:00pm - 6:15pm , Astronomy from 7pm - 9:20pm Wednesday Chemistry from 8:30am - 1:20pm, Math from 4:00pm - 6:15pm , Astronomy from 7pm - 9:20pm Friday Computer Science...