Recent content by Brandon_R

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    Programs What branch of engineering or physics do i have to major in if ?

    I want to be in the research, development and construction of quantum computers, quantum circuits etc? General electrical engineering with a focus on quantum tech or will something along the lines of physicist be enough? Thanks
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    Schools Foreign born Ph.D's in the US universities

    I will have to look into this.
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    History Major Events of 2011: A Year for the History Books

    2011 was neither the year of the linux desktop nor dictators.
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    Which Three Books to Start Civilization on Another Planet?

    My books would be Feynman lectures on physics the road to reality and a backup of the wikipedia.
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    Which Three Books to Start Civilization on Another Planet?

    I'm suprised it took 12 replies to say the Feynman lectures. That's one book that i will definitely take.
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    Preventing my Math skills from becoming rusty

    Have you tried viewing Khanacademy? I think it might fit your needs (more intuition than solving problems) and it even has calculus explained at a high school level so you could get a head start.
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    News Republicans trying to kill net neutrality

    With so many people on the internet and such powerful organizations i am suprised these things don't get killed the very instant they appear.
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    Why can't we totally ban smoking?

    Who are we to determine what people should do? The best we can do is give the proper warnings etc and let people determine for themselves what they should or should not do. If they want to smoke, then they would just have to face the consequences.
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    Volume and plane intersecting sphere

    I think he meant geometrically because he has not yet a working knowledge of calculus since this is in the precalculus section.
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    News Indiana Supreme Court: No Right to Resist Illegal Police Entry Into Your Home

    You're not the only one good sir, I too am worried about how little by little our basic rights are being removed on the mere basis that we shouldn't follow something written centuries ago. I would like to think the basic laws/rights would run with us to the bitter end. And something like this...
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    Suggestion Logged in for One, Not for other

    Lemme just give this a little bump here.
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    High School Preparing for College Calculus for AP Calc Students

    The Khanacademy is a pretty good place for refreshing on Calculus. You can also look into MIT OCW for some advance stuff. khanacademy.org ocw.mit.edu
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    Suggestion Logged in for One, Not for other

    When you visit physicsforums.com and log in then visit www.physicsforums.com or vice-versa you get logged out. Aren't they the same site so you should be logged in. One way around this is to force www or non-WWW with a .htaccess rule and the other is to change the cookie domain. Could the admins...
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    Why Most People do not like Mathmetics ?

    Bad experience when they are young mostly due to "bad" preschool teachers, bad mindset from the start ie this What will this do to me in the real world. As Euclid would say, Give him a penny for he must make a gain from what he learns.