Recent content by ChemicalCarl

Sorry if this is a silly question (I searched to no avail!), but there are mentions throughout the forums of a chat room, open on Sundays. I'd love to hop on and be able to chat, I'd honestly rather like it to be open any time, but that's a different story! I'm trying to cut Facebook out of...

UCB is an excellent school, my research professor got his doctorate at UC Riverside, actually. I'm sure it would be a rewarding experience! I fell in love with Scotland when I got to visit recently, and as a general rule I enjoy the British mindset and way of life. I can blame being raised on...

The USA doesn't have the same tier system, we have a gpa system. My gpa roughly places me at an upper second in your system. To answer the other part of your question, expect to become familiar with sleep deprivation. I don't want to sound discouraging, but expect to study in most of your spare...

Speaking as a 3rd year student in the USA, the first thing you need to do is be picky about who you surround yourself with. Your social group will either help or hinder. Hang around with people who care more about science than pop culture. The second thing that has helped me is constructive use...

Thank you all for the help! I think I'm grasping things much better now. I waited a bit to respond as I wanted to digest all this info properly... it seems this is one of those fields that just takes awhile to sink in. The graphs were extremely helpful, by the way, ghwellsjr! Thanks! Now...

The professor said general relativity was needed because acceleration would have to be involved to synchronize and later to compare the clocks. I guess I'm just not grasping how time passes faster for one and slower for the other in one frame, but by changing the reference frame the opposite is...

Quick disclosure, I'm only a few weeks into modern physics, and still trying to get a firm grip on the mechanics involved here. My understanding is that it is possible to use a reference frame that is moving, and this leads to a bit of a paradox, at least under certain conditions. Take two...