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Most people can't solve IMO questions without a very long time of training. Most people can't solve more than half of them even after a very long time of training. People who score 21 out of 42 in the contest win a silver medal. Bottom line: IMO questions are supposed to be very very difficult...

It looks like a perfectly typical curriculum to me but of course whether it's actually do-able depends on how many assignments the instructors give..

How would that help?

1. I'd say before Christmas or right after that would be ideal. Supposing you're in first year, it would certainly be nice to have some university grades, as high school grades tend to mean very little. (Unless you have something fancy, say a medal in a national or international contest.) Also...

QM is essentially a non-relativistic theory so SR is not an necessary pre-req. In terms of Zetilli's Chapter 2, I agree that there's quite a bit of material in there and if you haven't taken a serious course in linear algebra covering a good deal of material on self-adjoint operators, you might...

But how would a school ever know it was a Hard-B?

Hi, I'm sure everyone has came along some lengthy proofs/arguments that takes quite a while to go through , and might get too overwhelmed at some point. It seems wise to take a study break, but that sometimes seems to make situations even worse since you might lose your track of thought...

That's weird. Many undergraduates I know have published (mostly for their 3rd year project, I've even seen people publish in Science), some lucky ones that worked with some Astro/Productive groups published after their first year summer. One professor listed his past summer students and almost...

Well, doesn't it sort of make sense? If you went to a top notch undergraduate program, that's probably a good indicator that you were a good student to start with. Assuming that you keep on with the hard work, it seems to me quite natural that you'll end up being a stronger candidate than most...

I do remember I read somewhere that Schrödinger derived his wave equation during his vacation with his girlfriend..

I'm not sure why you're asking the same question over and over again. First, it's always easier to get into US grad schools if you're an American and went to an US school. One thing is that it's a lot easier to fund them. So yes, if you went to Yale (or basically any other US school), you'll...

All three schools have a decent track of sending their graduates to top schools.. And as long as you do well I don't think going to any particular one out of the three will make too much of a difference

I don't think any of the three schools would give you a particular advantage/disadvantage for grad school admission

Thanks a lot, I wasn't aware that a single sphere could have capacitance too. And yes, the question comes from an advanced level exam.. For a single sphere, it seems that C = Q/V makes sense only because V is uniform over the surface... How about for a non-uniform potential in this case? Would...

Anyone, Please? :smile: