Admittedly, only QM I, E&M I, and the lab course are required for graduating (plus a modern physics elective, which for me is solid state). The math methods are something I supposedly did the equivalent of during my year in engineering, but I still want to take the sequence to cover my bases.
Hello all,
I am a physics major who will be starting their senior year next week. My immediate post-graduation plan is to attend graduate school in physics (my interests are in experimental condensed matter). However, I am strongly considering taking an extra year to graduate and was wondering...
It seems to me, then, that quite a few of my professors are "liars" who "took advantage of opportunities" that rightfully belonged to others. I say this because many of them have told me that, when applying for graduate school, they were not at all sure why they were doing it. They had no...
I can indeed identify such a subtopic. Both in my REUs and in my future graduate school applications, I will state an intention to do research in condensed matter physics with an emphasis on the electronic properties of materials.
Unfortunately, I cannot explain that choice in a manner more...
In a way, I really cannot. If someone were to ask me why I am majoring in physics, my immediate reaction would be to say, "because I decided several years ago that I would study physics." The fact is that I was also considering linguistics, anthropology, history, mathematics, engineering, and...
I would say it is not only not easily checked, but uncheckable.
More importantly, it is the sort of lie I see condoned under a different name: telling the admissions committee/job interviewer/etc. what they want to hear. After all, it seems common practice in job interviews to give reasons why...
Let me begin by stating the obvious: I do not mean lying about anything that can be factually checked, like grades, honors, or experiences.
I am currently a junior majoring in physics, and my immediate post-graduation plans are to attend graduate school in physics. On paper, I seem to be on...
I see. This is more the sort of detail I was looking for in an answer, thank you.
It seems to me that -- at least with the type of problem you gave as an example -- the purpose of writing a program is not to extract a result that would be difficult to get by hand, but rather to extract multiple...
We did have weekly coding assignments. The most complicated program I wrote in C was a "bookstore" that read from a file containing an inventory of books, their quantity, prices, etc. The user had to be able to navigate a menu allowing them to view the info of any book searched by title. They...
I'm a physics major (Junior) who would like to learn a programming language. Many suggest Python as a good starting language, so let's suppose that is the language I want to first learn. This isn't for employability or general usefulness; rather, I'm just curious.
How exactly does one go about...
I made this thread at the end of my freshman year, and am now able as a junior (who is once again a physics major) to articulate why that line of reasoning is wrong.
I spent my sophomore year in electrical engineering because I was frequently told what you yourself have stated: that physics...
Incidentally, what might some of these "tricks of the trade" be? If these are some specific topics or techniques, then I may try to learn a bit in the time that is left before the next semester begins.
Oh, it stands for "too long; did not read." The instructions before posting told me to include one.
As for the rest, I hope I'm good enough. I double majored because I felt I was left with no choice, but that's a different story. The Director of Undergraduate Studies for physics did tell me he...
I will be taking intermediate mechanics next semester, and am a bit concerned about potential gaps in my mathematical knowledge. Long story short, I used to be a physics major, switched to electrical engineering, and then decided to double major after a semester in EE. The issue is that, as a...