That looks like an interesting degree, but it doesn't sound like that's what you're looking for.
If you want to work with and design medical equipment, you really don't need a degree in medicine. My wife designs medical equipment and has a Bachelors in mechanical and electrical...
After re-reading what I wrote, I was definitely unclear. I really didn't prepare at all. What I mean is, so long as your prof is reasonable, I don't think much preparation is necessary. However, pre-reading (or skimming) the books I suggested wouldn't hurt at all.
One thing I might...
Gilbert Strang's book, Linear Algebra and its Applications, is an excellent reference. You can find earlier editions online for dirt cheap (I think I paid 6 bucks for my copy). There's also another, more applied book called Matrix computations by Golub and Van Loan.
As far as preparation, I...
I have to throw in my 2 cents and suggest engineering. However, everyone here is right. The first year will see mostly the same courses anyway, and you'll have plenty of time to decide later, after meeting the professors, the students, seeing the facilities, etc.
Sometimes you can combine...
I also strongly suggest using Matlab/Octave or Python (or something equivalent) to program up examples. There's nothing like applying a filter and seeing the result immediately to cement the concepts in the books. If you're not familiar with a programming language, I would probably suggest...
My biggest suggestion is to not limit yourself. I went to the Colorado School of Mines for chemical engineering, and wound up enjoying the intro to Geology class, and now over a decade later I have a PhD in Geophysics and love what I do. Before Uni, I had no idea what Geophysics even was...
You are correct: all astronomical bodies do exert a force and thus affect 'g', as has been discussed. I work with gravity methods every day, and we have to account for the position of the sun and moon over the course of the day or our measurements will be thrown off quite a bit. The easiest...
Adding to Mr. Vickson's post (that is a cool website, by the way), many problems are set up as minimisations, that is wherever the function is at a minimum is your optimum solution. For example, in the case of fitting a line to a set of points (linear regression), you attempt to minimise the...
Thanks for your reply. I meant that the second derivative did not exist at x=0.
My notation is sloppy (my apologies, I'm a geophysicist and a poor mathematician), but shouldn't H'=δ, where δ is the Dirac delta function? Proceeding from that, then the question becomes δ'=? That is why I...
Hello all. In short, I am wondering what the second derivative of the Heaviside function (let's say H[(0)]) would be. I'm presuming that it's undefined (or more accurately, zero everywhere but at x=0), but I would like to know if that is correct.
Essentially, I am attempting to extend a...
Indeed, it isn't overwriting for me either. I'm using
10 FORMAT(TL2I2)
and
10 FORMAT(T1I2).
The formatting is working, except that T will not move the cursor back over what has been written. It will advance, but not go back.
Edit: by the way, I'm using both Intel and gfortran compilers.
If I'm not mistaken, that only prevents advancement to the next line; it does not overwrite what is already there. I'll check it though and post results. Thanks!
You can also do this with the 'quiver' plot command. I have never have success using it, but I have seen other people have success so I can only assume it's possible. Hit up the ol' help quiver and see what you can come up with.
It was buried in the FORMAT statement. I believe this is how it was done (I had to change the code and I believe this was the original version):
15 format('+Processing decay number ',I6)
I believe it's that '+' sitting there. If that doesn't make any sense I'll go on the hunt and make sure...