Recent content by denjay

Hey all, quick question! Is graduating with "Highest Distinction" from a department the same as Summa Cum Laude? My gut says no. It's important to note that "Highest Distinction" is given by the Physics department itself. It is not a judge of the overall education. Here is the web page that it...

Kinda new to the subject but here's a description from a website. http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/definitionofhealthmedicalphysics.html

I've been looking at graduate programs for Health Physics because I realized that I might not want a PhD but also want to be employable with a Physics degree. Usually people want a Certified Health Physicist but to be able to take the exam for certification, you need at least 6 years experience...

Thanks for all the input. Yeah the requirements for the course are upper level mechanics and the first upper level EM course so I would assume there would be a reinforcement of things learned in those classes. Here's a brief description of the class from a flyer. MatLab for Physics: Physics...

Upon reviewing the requirements for a Materials Science PhD (only look at UCLA and UWash@Seattle so far), general quantum mechanics doesn't seem to be a major component. Because of this, is it safe to assume that taking QM II would, while not a waste, be less valuable than the Matlab course?

Should I take "Matlab for Physics"? So this is one of those questions... Next semester my Physics department is offering a special course "Matlab for Physics". It's being taught by a well known and respected professor so I'm doubly sure the content covered will be relevant to research in...

This semester has been by far my busiest class-load and research wise. So the stress of getting all of the applications together for a grad school isn't exactly something I'm able to deal with with stride. On top of all that, its Nov. 6th and I'm still not 100% sure of what I want to do. I'm...

Cool yeah, I did it the way you suggested and got the same answer as I did in my original post. Thanks!

Homework Statement Consider a charged particle of mass m in a harmonic potential and in the presence also of an external electric field E = E\hat{i}. The potential for this problem is simply V(x) = 1/2 mw^{2}x^{2} - qεx where q is the charge of the particle. 1) Show that a simple change of...

Simple question, are applications deadlines usually university-wide or does it vary from department to department (or college to college)? Or does the system depend on the whole university you're looking at? Thanks in advance.

I'm looking at some Materials Science graduate programs and some of the research areas involve simulation of material growth and properties. I'm kind of wondering what the value of this kind of research is as opposed to more practical research. This probably goes into the philosophy of science...

Not sure if this is the right place for this question but this seems the best place to me. So after I graduate (with a Bachelor's degree) my loans require repayment after a 6 month grace period. One option I have with that is to defer the loans (make it so I don't have to pay back right away)...

I'm still having this problem so I'll post an abridged part of my code. I took out a lot but kept the relevant parts. The loop acts to calculate rn[1] which is the value I need to return. My thought is that the function type is wrong or the variable type is wrong, or that C just doesn't...

So I wrote a program that has one main function call two other functions in an equation and then calculates a value. The problem is the numbers I need returned from those two other functions need to stay in their complex form. Using double() I get an error when trying to return that. Is there...

I don't know any specific examples but from the point of view of an admissions person, if you did well it would demonstrate that you could do well in other graduate courses. On the other hand if you did badly (less than a B), it would have been better if you hadn't taken it yet.