I will be a freshman in college this upcoming Fall semester, and I intend to be a Physics major. I took Multivariable Calculus at the local community college in High School and received a relatively poor grade in it, but I'm self-studying it now. I am confident that I will know all the material...
I should begin by stating that I'm going to be a college Freshman this upcoming fall, and I plan on majoring in Physics. I took Multivariable Calculus at my local community college, and I did not receive too good of a grade in the class because I couldn't attend the lectures (they were at the...
The amount of homework you'll get for your AP classes depends entirely on the teachers, but you do have to do some work to get 5's on the AP test. I didn't/haven't found them very difficult, but it really depends on you and whether or not you want to put in the necessary amount of work to be...
@cgk, upon reading my post again, I realize how vague that question is. What I meant to ask was what factors should I look at to decide which school has a better physics program, or if there is a discernible difference. I apologize for my vagueness. Were you a physics major at Cornell? If so...
I am currently trying to decide between Berkeley and Cornell, as the title implies. I plan on majoring in physics and attending graduate school. I am sure that there isn't a definitive answer to whether one is better than the other, so what criteria should I be looking at and what are your...
Richard Feynman is a constant inspiration for me. As far as books go, I would suggest reading QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, The Character of Physical Law, or Six Easy Pieces to begin with so that you can decide if you enjoy his style.
Excuse me. I've been texting too much with people who don't care much for things like that. As a result, I've gotten into some bad habits. :/ Thank you for pointing that out to me. I will be more careful in the future. I will fix it immediately.
Yeah, as DaleSpam said, an object with mass cannot travel at the speed of light. However, if one were able to travel at c, then the only light that would reach the observer's eyes would be the light directly in front of his or her eyes.
You would first have to get rid of all the electrons before you attempted to do that, and then you can fuse the atoms together. However, it takes a lot of energy to do this, and I would think it would be really hard to fuse together two atoms with a large amount of nucleons in them. Nuclear...
I think GEM stands for gravitoelectrodynamics or something close to that.
Photons and Gravitons may seem similar at first, but unlike photons, gravitons cannot superimpose.
I'm fairly sure that there aren't any background independent string theories. Loop quantum gravity does arrive at a background independent theory. In Lee Smolin's book The Trouble With Physics, he says, "One would like to do better and show that the discreteness of space and time is a...
The spinning plane isn't acting like a 3d object; it's just spinning in a three dimensional space. Like granpa was saying, the force lines aren't real. I can't quite remember, but I think the magnetic field isn't a physical field--i'm not sure though.