Recent content by Bong_Nebula

What you'll really need is immense patience. QED and QCD take a lot of prerequisite knowledge. These are topics people don't really get into until (typically) senior year of their physics major, or graduate school. It's important to remember that. Don't put the cart before the horse. As far as...

I was in the same boat. I had pretty solid grades in high school (there were two classes I cared about, other than that my effort was minimal) without caring, which made for quite the rude awakening in college. What I've found is making a schedule for block of time is very helpful. Allow...

I agree with jbrussel93. If the time this class takes is impeding you in your other courses or if it would negatively impact your GPA I would say drop it. But as it is, I don't see what there is to gain (other than a few extra hours of free time) by dropping it.

As Micromass said, it really depends on what you'll be doing later, but I would imagine a class in scientific computing would be useful for just about everyone. They are most often offered by applied math department.

If you're worried that you aren't cut out for STEM or something, I wouldn't sweat it too much. It sounds like you've been benefiting from the use of an actual analysis textbook, and so I would guess that it's just a lot for a freshman without experience in upper level math classes to digest.

I couldn't, so I did both. I would say unless you're planning on physics as a career, the best types of jobs (in terms of stress, income, etc) you could get with a physics bachelor's would be the same ones you would get much more easily with a CS degree. But if you really can't decide, you could...

I would say your best bet at this point is to focus on ChemE classes (I don't think anyone is expecting you to take anymore math) but if you want to take another math class, like MexChemE said, I would find some numerical analysis/scientific computing class. I would expect any school with an...

I think it really depends on the instructor. I had 4 AP teachers in high school - 1(Calculus AB) taught very much toward the test, skipping sections of textbook, making our test questions retired test questions, and so on. The other 3 (Chemistry, English Lit, European History) seemed to care...

Fellow physics major here. From what I've gathered talking with the grad students in our department, most of them only took one or two elementary programming classes, unless they are s computational physics. I know in my job as a lab assistant (most of which is programming) I've gotten along...

Universities occasionally have lecturer positions as well. My university (very high research activity, fairly well respected, and in the US) has a handful of lecturers in the physics and math departments. They do no research - they only teach, and with the exception of 1 (who had a tenure track...

Absolutely avoid Cahill. It's nearly worthless unless you already know the concepts and just need a refresher.

Personally, I always learn math much better when I can see what it's supposed to be doing in physics (I struggle with physics much less than math). At least in introductory physics classes, while they are calculus based, in my experience they haven't been very rigorous with the calculus - by...

I took QM1 before taking intermediate classical mechanics (I just had the introductory mechanics course). Never did that hinder me, so I think you'll be fine on that front. That being said, I took a similar load last fall, and I can promise you that it will be hell on Earth. Are you in a rush to...

It's my understanding (anyone more knowledgeable, please correct me if I'm off) that astronomy is the act of observing space, astrophysics is the act of explaining astronomical observation with physics, and cosmology is a branch of astrophysics focusing on very large scales (mostly, properties...

thanks!