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Jorge G.
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Greetings.
I plan to apply for the PhD program in physics at the the University of Miami. I want to go there because it is in my home town. Its physics department, it seems, is not stellar. My real disappoinment is the apparent lack of courses: they teach statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electricity and magnetism, but not general relativity, a course I've always wanted to take.
So that got me thinking. Assuming I did complete a PhD at this university, and having not taken a course in astrophysics or, say, theory of condensed matter, would it be my responsibility as a qualified researcher to learn those subjects myself? Likewise, if I wanted to do research on particles, as a grad student, would it be possible having never taken a course in paticle physics?
Thank you for your time ~
I plan to apply for the PhD program in physics at the the University of Miami. I want to go there because it is in my home town. Its physics department, it seems, is not stellar. My real disappoinment is the apparent lack of courses: they teach statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electricity and magnetism, but not general relativity, a course I've always wanted to take.
So that got me thinking. Assuming I did complete a PhD at this university, and having not taken a course in astrophysics or, say, theory of condensed matter, would it be my responsibility as a qualified researcher to learn those subjects myself? Likewise, if I wanted to do research on particles, as a grad student, would it be possible having never taken a course in paticle physics?
Thank you for your time ~