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    Schools Exploring Physics: A High School Junior's Career Path

    What is the reputation of Lehigh in the Physics community? They are a school I've considered, and I'm going to their table at a college fair this week. What are their big programs? I know they are an amazing engineering school, but I haven't heard much about their physics program.
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    Schools Exploring Physics: A High School Junior's Career Path

    I would probably want to have no more than thirty, though twenty would feel better, I think.
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    Schools Exploring Physics: A High School Junior's Career Path

    I'm just worried about not enriching myself/not being able to work as close with the professors. I feel like being in smaller classes nurtures education more. Personal preference I guess
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    Schools Exploring Physics: A High School Junior's Career Path

    The only thing I'm worried about with Penn State is the large student size. Like I said in the OP, while "top" or "elite" schools are nice, I would rather be in an environment where I can push my own understanding of the material to new heights. Large student size makes me worried that maybe I...
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    Schools Exploring Physics: A High School Junior's Career Path

    So after doing some (superficial) research into top school, I have put together a list of schools that I found consistently fell in top spots, though some of them may be less competitive. I did not discriminate based on location, simply on multiple appearances on lists that ranked schools based...
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    Schools Exploring Physics: A High School Junior's Career Path

    Yes, and the problem I always see with them is that they always come up with Ivy League schools (Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, Yale, etc.). I'm looking for lower schools that may be less competitive.
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    Schools Exploring Physics: A High School Junior's Career Path

    Hello, I am a high school junior looking at going into a career in physics. Over the past few years, I have found that I enjoy physics, specifically in "understanding" the atom, and the mind boggling ideas of what happens at that level. I think I want to study particle physics or quantum...
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    Does anyone know how to measure the color of a Post-It note?

    So based on the responses, I've come to the conclusion that I will be doing two-three sets of tests on these notes. I found a teacher at the print shop of our high school who has the Pantone color charts, and has agreed to let me use them. Second, this weekend I will be looking for local Paint...
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    Does anyone know how to measure the color of a Post-It note?

    So assuming that the actual color of red is the wavelength of 620-750 nm, the average wavelength of red, or the "purest" red, would be a wavelength of 685 nm. So if I could graph all of the wavelengths on a graph of x=wavelength and y=intensity (i'm not sure how I would measure intensity), then...
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    Does anyone know how to measure the color of a Post-It note?

    I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but since I'm new here i'll post it here until someone tells me it should go somewhere else. Anyway, I am currently wondering how to measure the color of some post it notes. It started as a friendly argument as to which post it pad was more red...
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    Why did you start learning physics?

    I have found that math becomes easier and less of a chore when you treat it as a method instead of an end. It's just the logical answer of what makes sense. Math isn't a bunch of rules, it is process of understanding. You slowly learn all the pieces, geometry and algebra, and then in calculus it...
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    Why did you start learning physics?

    It's hard to say that I "started" learning physics, due to the fact that I'm simply a high school student who has yet to take a physics class (our school cut 9th grade physics, so it is now a senior year elective) however I can say that I got interested in it because of my passion for...
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    Introduction to Physics: Exploring the Fascinating World of Science

    Hi, I'm new here, and I love science, specifically physics
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