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The only thing I have found is at UNC. It's super expensive, but my department head said it looks like it should cover everything necessary to grant transfer credits

Renae, did you ever find an online classical mechanics class? I'm having the same problem, and the class isn't offered again here until fall 2014. It's the ONLY class that I still need to graduate after this semester.

photoetching porous silicon

I am shining a HeNe beam into a 1:1 solution of 40% HF and 7% potassium permanganate. Potassium permenganate is very dark purple (cannot see visible light through it). I am shining the HeNe through about 2 millimeters depth of this solution. I was wondering how much of the beam is actually...

voicing my opinions here does not exactly translate to what I would say to a program director, jeeze

you have to be an american citizen to participate in nsf funded programs (i.e. the reu programs)

I don't think a BS in physics did either

no offense, but I would rather do anything else on the planet before teaching high school. I'm not even super fond of the idea of teaching college someday beyond the perk of engraining whatever you teach about into yourself, since you really have to understand something completely to teach it...

it's such a crock, would it kill them to have an actual conversation with applicants before selection? I mean if we're going to make it one big popularity contest, at least let me use my personality to win a spot...I suppose the reality I come to is that life is not fair, reverse discrimination...

well honestly, we haven't been required to take more than the most basic c++ programming class, I FREAKING HATED IT, but i made an A...honestly, its hard because I don't have even a remote interest in any of those things...aren't there any fields where they just need a tolken physicist standing...

well, it turns out that I go to a very small school and know all of the professors in my department. The purpose of an REU (research experience for undergraduates) is to get experience in different fields, to help students decide what sub field they want to go into in grad school. It's very...

so I'm pretty annoyed with a particular REU program, but I won't name names. I just want to understand why some REU's like and say that they would prefer students from schools without graduate programs in physics and then only select students from ivy league schools, or Berkeley, etc...it's...

definitely don't care about Einstein being an atheist or not anymore, this was written as a far more general thread, and I'm sorry but i don't believe Einstein's life is the general rule most physicist live by

what textbook are you using?

seriously, can't we just invent robots to do this stuff...they take unenviable jobs because they have unenviable lives, usually with criminal backgrounds or drug problems...lots of them didn't graduate high school...i guess if you can call having a job instead of claiming wellfare heroic, then...