Recent content by Bishop556

I think I would be able to get a better pGRE and also a publication and significantly improve my academic statement, but I really don't feel like that is really why I want to take some time off. I just don't feel that I am ready to devote 5-7 years of life towards a PhD right now. I am...

Hello, I'm in a bit of a dilemma and was wondering if I could get some advice on what I should do. So, I recently applied to graduate school and got rejected from every school I applied to. The reason was due to my unpreparedness and lack of confidence which seeped into my essays. I realize now...

Well, there is a difference in score, but not in ability, in my opinion. I don't think you can made a judgement call on someone's ability given that they answered 2 or 3 more questions correctly than someone else on a poorly made multiple choice test.

That was what I was referring too. I was just concerned how stringent grad schools are for scores. However, I can't imagine that they would think someone who got a 890 or 900 is better than someone who got an 860. A few wrong answers doesn't equate to being the better physicist.

Hello everyone, I know this will sound slightly silly, but I'm feeling a little inadequate about my physics GRE score. I recently took it and scored an 860 (80th percentile), but I'm wondering if not getting in the 900s will hurt my chances for a top grad school. Do most schools recognize that...

As an update, I was rejected from Duke but accepted to LSU's REU program. I haven't heard anything else.

So, for next fall I was thinking of taking: 1) GR 2) E and M 1 3) Abstract Algebra 1 4) not sure I was thinking of taking either graduate quantum or taking graduate E and M instead of the undergrad version and instead take a second math course. Now, I have taken undergrad quantum, but I was...

Also, note that state[0] is mass, state[1] is pressure, and den is density.

Hello, I am trying to now use my Runge Kutta code to numerically solve the equations of state for an ordinary star and then transcribe that to a neutron star. My code is below: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from math import pi #Constants G = 6.674*1e-11 N = 5000 Gamma =...

I believe I do. The equations of state are mentioned as comments in my code. Do you notice anything I am doing wrong to code them correctly?

I am plotting radius in the x-axis and Mass in y axis.

My new code is listed above. I added a portion that would stop the array from receiving an negative values of x. The rest of the array will be zeros due to this effect which is expected. When computing the arrays, the data points seem to be somewhat correct, but the graph is wonky. My current...

import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from math import sqrt #Variable Definitions N = 500 dur = 2.0 dr = dur/float(N-1) #creating the array y = np.zeros([N,2]) y[0,0] = 15 y[0,1] = 0#runge kutta algorithm def rk4(y, r, dr, deriv): k1 = dr * deriv(y,r) k2 = dr *...

After applying this change, I am receiving a straight horizontal line which is odd.

Note that the code I am using is Python. Currently, I am attempting to numerically solve the equations of state that give rise to the Chandrasekar limit for a white dwarf star. My code works for a simple harmonic oscillator given the correct equations of motion, but does not compute the correct...