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Thank you guys for your advice. The masters in mathemtical finance thing seems interesting. A lot of uni's seem to offer it.

I just finished my first year of a 4 year physics degree, and it made me realize that although I love physics and I am really good at it, but I do not want to be a physicist. This has a lot to do with my first taste of research life with a condensed matter group I had been helping. It made me...

I have refused to use any calculator but the EL-510R for 5 years. I have collected hundreds of them in the fear they will stop being made.

My problem is that if we KNOW the particle is in a bound state (suppose me measured its energy at some point and put into some bound eigenstate) and we try to measure its position, and find that it is outside of the well, by conservation of energy its kinetic energy must be negative.

ok, suppose you are certain it is in some energy eigenstate, and you know that that eigenstate is a bound state. All of those states oscillate inside the well, and decay exponetially outside of it, so there is some probability of finding it outside the well. If you make a second observation and...

Out side the well, for a bound state, the wave function isn't zero, but is a decaying exponential because the wave number is imaginary.

In a finite square well, there exists a non-zero component outside the well for all bound eigenstates. What is the physical nature of this non-zero component? How can you actually observe an electron outside the well when it is in a bound energy eigenstate? It would have an imaginary wave number.

Thanks for the input, guys. I will go with Kittel.

I wish to self study condensed matter physics. I believe the Kittel and Arschcroft&Mermin are the most popular textbooks. I have read that Kittel is not very clear, however it his half the price of A&M on amazon. Also, my background in Quantum Mechanics comes entirely from Griffiths' intro, and...

Forcing someone to sit through a course they don't want to be in is certainly the way to make someone well rounded and they certainly won't forget the meaningless excess afterwards. Not to mention most any post-secondary school has an english proficiency requirement for admittance so obviously...

I really wish schools would just take a standardized approach to grading. No matter how superior you think your philosophy is, it is meaningless to another school :-(

I finished by first semester of university. My grades are as follows: Math (4 credits) - 100% - A+ Phys (3 credits) - 100% - A+ English (3 credits) - 81% - A- Chemistry (4 credits) - 97% - A+ Biology (3 credits) - 88% - A So, unlike most US schools, my school has three classes of A...

If you just wrote down the answer I doubt you would get anymore than 5/10, though I really don't know.

The COMC is pretty accessible as in you don't need to know obscure number theorems or symmetries. Just do a few past exams to build confidence and get a good sleep.

not very lenient at all from what I gather. Myself and some others would get everything in part B (except for, usually, the last part of the last question), but make petty little mistakes in part A and ended up not doing very well. They really don't like giving part marks. As for B, if you just...