What is Course: Definition and 981 Discussions

I'm a college student needing to take calculus 2 this fall. However, I have not taken calc 1, so since I'm good at teaching myself I'm planning on giving myself a crash course in the material covered in calc 1 over this summer. Can anyone recommend a good calculus book for someone who's fairly...

By courses I mean like Multivariable Calculus, Differentials, Physics 301, etc...

I have to take a required course for my major this fall titled Mathematical Thinking. The course description says something along the ways of "students are expected to give presentations, for examples and counterexamples and proof mathematical theories..." that's not verbatim, but it's what I...

Does someone know if there's a course offered on RH? I mean reading the literature can be quite intimidating without some beckground before, I read somewhere that the prof from purdue (who allegedlly proved RH) was contemplating offering such a course, but didn't offer such a course.

I was browsing over my physics course work before going to bed, getting ready to take my midterm exam tomorrow, when it suddenly dawned on me: The universe exists. o.o Holy ****! Wow. How ****ing crazy is that? I mean, yeah, all this time I've been deriving equations, trying to...

Hi everyone, I'm planning to major in chemistry double minoring in physics and math. Next year I'm registered for a full course load (5 courses) each comes with a lab 3 hours long (except one which is 2hrs). These are all second year courses and they cover material I've never heard of. The...

Question: A 25 mL sample of H2C204 solution required 19.62 mL of 0.341 M NaOH for neutralization. Calculate the molarity of the acid? The reaction was : H2C204 + 2NaOH ---------------------> Na2C2O4 + 2H2O Attempt: [Which line has the mistake in it and what is it?] converted 25mL to L...

Hello everyone, I'm currently deciding where I should study next year, and I would appreciate any advice you could give. I am a Canadian citizen, and I just finished my bachelors with a physics/statistics double major. My long term goal is to research machine learning, either in a faculty...

There is a Harvey Mudd College first semester real analysis course posted at http://www.youtube.com/user/Learnstream, based on the classic text Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Baby Rudin), by Walter Rudin. Professor Francis Su, who delivers these lectures, does a great job helping to tie...

I want to go to grad school for theoretical physics and I've heard that it's very important to know partial differential equations for theoretical physics. But unfortunately my school doesn't have a course on PDE's. How big of a deal is this? Will I be able to pick it up easily in grad school?

I'm currently enrolled in A-Level Further Mathematics (the most advanced math course available to us) and have completed pretty much everything, having more difficulty in the technical and complicated algebra involved rather than understanding the topics. I just wanted to know how knowledge of...

For my second writing GenED at Towson University I have to develop a proposal. I am proposing a scientific writing course designed the help science majors with writing journals and researching. The idea is to take this before advance lab classes. Problem is I can't find any data to support...

How weird of an idea is it to study for a course before the course even starts to get a good handle on the actual course. For example if you sign up for a summer semester of trig. and you are going to spend a few weeks before the class starts studying the book for the course, how weird of an...

What is the most difficult thing to do in the course Chemistry 1 (at your 2 year college or university)? In your opinion, what is the most difficult activity, or concept in the book to learn.

Is is a typo? The 1985 edition of Schutz: A First Course in General Relativity, p. 52, equation 2.37, which is supposed to express the idea that "photons have spatial momentum equal to their energy": \vec{p} \cdot \vec{p} = -E^2 + E^2 = 0. Shouldn't this be \vec{p} \cdot \vec{p} = E^2...

Homework Statement When certain viral particles enter the body, they replicate to 160% every four hours and the immune system eliminates these particular viral particles at the rate of 50000 viral particles per hour. Find an equation modeling this viral growth. Homework Equations N/A...

I am doing my final year B Tech in electrical engineering, but my interest is in theoretical physics. Though I have applied to some US universities for applied physics with the hope that I can switch to theoretical physics later but am not sure if I will get admission. Can anyone suggest me...

Jorge Pulling is teaching a course for UG in intro to LQG, I thought some of you might be interseted, here: http://www.phys.lsu.edu/classes/spring2010/phys4750/ Unfortunately he hasn't yet uploaded his Lecture Notes,I hope he will eventually upload them. I could email him ofcourse... (-:

Is this doable?? Next year I'm taking organic, physical, analytical chemistry, modern physics, and calc3. I guess the only way I'll know is to actually do it and see if I can handle it but I wanted to ask you guys and see if you had any thoughts about it. Plus if you've been through this some...

I need topics or any research area where i can illustrate something related to vibrations.Need your help guys. I can also do the analysis of any project done before. If anybody has any stuff for me that will be really helpful and i will really appreciate it. Thanks

I'm in my 4th year of a physics program, and I've got some serious freedom choosing courses now. Has anyone taken graph theory? I've got a basic idea what it is, but no clue how difficult it might be. Any other good math courses to take as an option that won't bee too difficult? For...

I just finished high school and i am very much interested in electrodynamics and electromagnetic waves and i would like to study it in greater detail..I am good at mathematics too.However, i don't like electronics, i.e, diodes, transistors and stuff. So what undergraduate course can i take...

Hello, Name is Lamont, new here. I am currently a graduate physics student. I have been looking for A Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau and Lifgarbagez. I can find the books individually but I cannot find the whole series together. I found one site, Flipkart.com, that does seem to...

Ok. Tomorrow I will be selecting courses for my sophomore year. I'm pretty nervous about this because I want to go to a very good collage to study math and physics. I'm talking like Princeton or Stanford. Next year I will be taking Pre-Calc and Advanced Biology, both honors classes. I will also...

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.

hi, i am struggling to come up in life through education and after a huge struggle,i decided to enter medical physics field and in this process i have already got conditional offer from three universities namely university of Canterbury(new Zealand) where i got offer for pg-diploma in medical...

I have a question about university course offerings. This semester I'm taking a course called "Introduction to Analysis," which uses Edward Gaughan's Introduction to Analysis, and is basically just a more rigorous/proof-based coverage of the topics we learned in the first two semesters of...

Has anyone had any experience with a graduate E&M class that didn't use Jackson? Is Jackson necessary? I have it at home and it's a very difficult read and the problems are impossible. I have other E&M books and I can actually learn E&M from them. My grad E&M class (master's program)...

I am currently enrolled as a 1st semester junior at clemson university (this is my freshman year though, just exempted a bunch of classes) and am a physics ba major. I've decided to minor in mathematical sciences and I was wanting to take higher level classes that would apply to advanced...

Hi guys and gals. I'm new to the site and have been reading and learning a lot from here. I can't believe I didn't know about this place before. Anyway I'm having a pretty difficult time with a certain reaction that I had to do in my General Chemistry lab. Any help would be appreciated! We were...

Hello all, In the book "A First Course in General Relativity" by Schutz (1985 Edition) in chapter 2 there is a problem concerning summation that has me confused. Note: This is not homework, just an interest of mine. The given quantities are: A = (5,0,-1,-6) B = (0,-2,4,0) C = [ 1 0 2 3...

Hey guys, I can't solve the first two problems. Can you help me please ASAP? http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5562/hw1e.jpg

What are some good reference books to complement "Calculus and Vectors" course? I am looking for a good book to help with Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U (ontario)). I am looking for good explanations and clear diagrams. Thanks.

Hi everyone, I'm in second year of a maths/mathsphysics degree (four years) and want to go on an exchange next year to a German-speaking country. My university has given me the job of picking the university. Most German universities seem to just do a pure maths or maths-computer science degree...

Hi, I'm currently taking a seminar course , it's like a "small group" course (like a lecture as a tutorial) in mathematics. It's open for anybody, most people there actually aren't math students. It's basically a discrete math/combinatorial/"problem solving" driven course but the thing is, I...

Homework Statement While running an obstacle course, Jane comes to a rope hanging from a platform. She grabs a rope, which then accelerates her up into the air. Her mass is 55 kg and she accelerates upward at 1.50 m/s2. The tension on the rope is ____N. Homework Equations F=ma The...

I know it isn't the anniversaries of these two horrific and deplorable tragedies and I know this is kind of ancient history for people not directly impacted by this event, but I looked at the past threads in PF and could not find a discussion of this topic, so I thought I would start the first...

Hey guys, I already checked through quite a few other posts and didn't find any that answered by question, so I figured I'd just post a new thread... Next semester, for right now, I'm signed up for Multivariable Calc, Linear Algebra, and Foundations of Math (I guess this would be the...

Hi folks, I have been looking for some time for a video lecture course which deals specifically with complex analysis and think I have covered most of the sources listed in this sub-forum and some in the physics learning materials areas with no luck (including also MIT, YouTube...

Hi, I am taking a methods of applied mathematics course in Spring 2010 semester. The previous semester proved to be a bit overwhelming and the professor used a textbook that I found inadequate in fully understanding the material. The course content will follow this syllabus with some...

I'm going to take a course on Biophysics next semester but there's no textbook. I heard it's because the professor is really good. Here's the description: Introduction to the structure, properties, and function of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and membranes. In depth study of the...

Hello all, First and foremost, I want to apologize if I am posting in the wrong area. Please inform me if so. I am new to the forums (hence my first post), and will be doing my first Physics course this winter (starts after New Years) since 2002. I really need to do well, and I have the...

Homework Statement let f: R->R be a continuous function Suppose k>=1 is an integer such that lim f(x)/x^k = lim f(x)/x^k = 0 x->inf x->-inf set g(x)= x^k + f(x) g: R->R Prove that (i) if k is odd, then g is surjective (ii) if k is even, then there is...

Well basically, I've completely finished the Secondary School's Physic's course for our country. (Ireland). Only 4 months into a supposedly 2 year course. I have represented Ireland at the International Junior Science Olympiad, where I won a Bronze medal, and have qualified to represent Ireland...

Homework Statement A pilot wishes to fly 2875 km to an airport 18 degrees east of north from his departure point(for the sake of the problem and simplicity, use the origin). He wants to make the trip in 3 hours and 20 minutes. The pilot finds that he actually has to make a change in his air...

Gravitons are still theoretical, of course, but I'm not quite sure how they're supposed to fit into the current picture. If gravity is, in basic terms, caused by the curvature of spacetime around objects with mass, then what role would the theoretical graviton be playing? What comes first, the...

Homework Statement A plane flies in the direction 120 degrees with an air speed of 300mph. The wind is blowing north to south at 40mph. Find the course and ground speed of the plane. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I attempted this problem, but i still cannot figure...

I have selected Neuroscience is the major that I will be pursuing (for personal and intellectual reasons). I work forty hours a week and take classes at night and online through my community college. I currently have a transfer contract with William and Mary, upon completion of the required...

I am becoming a secondary math teacher, and have completed Calculus III, and proofs. Within about a year to a year and a half, I will have combinatorics, abstract algebra, an advanced course in statistics and probability, Diff EQ, Linear algebra, and a couple of others completed. I have been...

I am about to start a graduate program in signal processing. A lot of the literature that I've been recently browsing, uses the concept of operators on functions - such as a differential, or Fourier transform operator. I really like this "framework" (for lack of understanding) but have never...