Thank you for this thoughtful exposition. I really appreciate hearing your thoughts, as it appears as though they have been developed over a rich life of handwavium and plausabilium navigation. It's great to know that others are out there dealing with these troubling issues, and that life can...
I watch a lot of Star Citizen streams, and a big part of that game is being able to fly to and from planetary atmospheres. I don't understand the SCI part of the sci-fi shields that space game ships have, and I have some questions. The shields seem to always be on... does that mean that, like...
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TL;DR: Could it be practical to leave a PhD in Earth science in order to earn a BS in math (starting at the upper division level) if I'm tired of having a spotty math foundation and want to be able to learn anything?
I've been on a slow, wandering path towards a vaguely defined "career...
Hello. I've been watching Susskind's online Stanford lectures on classical mechanics to review the subject, and I believe he said that adding a constant to the potential energy does not change the action of a system. I see how it doesn't change the Euler-Lagrange equations and therefore...
Thanks Vanadium, it's a good idea for me to look at what's available online. 18.075 is Calculus for engineers. To be clear, I've taken all the math required for a BS in physics, and a couple "theoretical physics" courses (undergrad and grad level) where the essentials of the necessary math is...
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I've got one more semester before I earn my physics MS, and I have space for one or two extra courses. I am going into oceanography, and I would like to have a strong foundation in math in order to understand the theory I'll encounter as well as possible. Lots of physical...
I'm new to this stuff, but I think that we're incrementing the phase of the coefficients by omega*delta_t. The idea is that you've got a bunch of "snapshots" of these ocean waves coming in, at different times. Take one, perform an fft on it, increment the phase of the coefficients by the...
I'm working on some research with a professor, and we're looking at data collected by an x-band radar array looking at ocean waves as they approach the coast (the radar is on land, and we can see about 3 miles out).
What we're trying to do is perform an fft on the signal using Matlab, and...
Oh, and I'll look into applied math, thanks. I guess another issue is that I found math to be "harder' than the physics I took last semester. My ego has been telling me to take the hardest path, since that might make me stronger in the end.
Thanks for the input everyone. I do realize that I haven't seen much "real math" yet. I really don't have a background in proofs and I can see how the sort of math that I've done is just the application of things proven in "real math" classes. Is that sortof correct?
I also do see that...
I'm in my second semester of a Physics MS program, and my goal is to come out with good math and computer science skills. I also want to get an interesting job near the ocean since I'm a nature loving surfer, so I thought that physics and programming might land me a gig at an oceanographic...
I just finished my first semester in an MS program in Physics. I have no physics background, so I'm taking upper division undergrad courses. I took Analytical Mechanics, Theoretical Physics, Physical Chemistry, and Probability. I took PChem because of my interest in the life sciences and...
I've just started an MS program in physics, and I don't really have a clear career goal. I have realized that many people pursue MS degrees so that they can teach in high schools or at city colleges, and these sound like good options to keep in the cards. What is the job outlook for people...
I'm a west coast physics MS student who wishes to keep PhD doors open as wide as possible. I'm taking a probability class outside of my major, and I really like it but I've made a few mistakes on quizzes and now I'm not sure I'll pull off the A. It's still doable but life would be less...