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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Nuclear_Fission_Experimental_Apparatus_1938_-_Deutsches_Museum_-_Munich.jpg Hello everyone. According to Wikipedia, this is a photograph of the experimental apparatus with which Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission in...

I took an ecology class last semester which had a strong emphasis on the transfer of energy in ecological systems. It was actually more challenging than I anticipated. The course required a good amount of knowledge about chemistry and biochemistry. I was also required to learn about things such...

Oh my, you're right. There really does seem to be hundreds of these threads. Well thanks anyway for your help, my friends. And I will definitely look at Project Euler.

I'm not going to doubt the difficulty level of learning how to program on my own. However, I think that if I want an edge in life, then it would probably be best to get started as soon as possible.

I feel that I should start learning how to program. The only thing stopping me from reading a few books and watching some videos is the whole matter of which language to choose from. There are just so many of them. My question is what would be the best and most useful programming language to...

Hey everyone. Based on your responses and some research that I've been doing, the question of how I should achieve my goals now rest upon the school I want to go to. I'm an AA transfer student, I have a 4.0 gpa, and I'm going to graduate with highest honors (if that even means anything at the...

Also, if I am coming across as naive and/or ignorant, please forgive me. These interests are relatively new, I've only read a few introductory books in physics and plasma physics, and my highest completed math class so far is trigonometry. I wholeheartedly appreciate all of the help so far.

Thanks for all of the help, guys. It means so much to me. I think you guys are right about not double majoring, but the question for me now is if it would be better to major in physics with a minor in nuclear engineering, or vice versa. I guess I just need to know what the current state in...

Wow, thanks for the help. Would it be pointless to double major in physics and nuclear engineering and then going to grad school to study plasma physics (please understand that I really don't have a clue)? This way, I'd have more resources, classes, peers, and more professors who would be likely...

Thank you for the advice. As a math major, and especially as one who has worked in a plasma physics laboratory, could you give me some tips or offer some guidance to prepare me for this journey? Possibly on math that I should be paying special attention to?

Hello everyone! I am about to finish my freshmen year in college and I have decided that I would eventually like to become a physicist. More recently, I have decided that I would like to study plasma physics and devote my time to work in controlled fusion. However, I have seen some threads on...