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It's far from the norm; but I'd say when it does happen it's more than likely going to be in engineering or STEM subjects where the research is related to an engineering application. I've met several people both in govt and industry who've completed their advanced degrees working part time on...

As far as I'm aware the average is something like 5.5 but national average might be higher. Some topics will go by quicker than others, especially if you don't really have an experimental component (my own example is almost purely computational). I agree though 6 years is probably...

Vanadium's example is (as is the usual) overly pessimistic. Myself and other colleagues essentially have this role with 'only' bachelors in Physics (I did double major in Electrical Engineering). I'm a multi-physics modeling and simulation engineer in an R&D lab; this mostly entails Finite...

An option out of Virginia Tech's Aerospace Engineering Department https://www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty/srinivasan/personal-page.html

This is a thing

I took electromagnetics courses (electrical engineering version of E&M) that were taught by people with physics PhD's; their specialties were optics so that fit their expertise within the engineering school.

Major in physics, you'll ideally get an education in the relevant mathematical techniques for physics inside of your degree; you can fill up any additional stuff with a dedicated minor in math.

Depending on how simple your circuit is, all you need to know how to do is effectively add, divide, and/or multiply a couple of numbers together to calculate an amplification gain factor; if you're philosophically waxing about whether you have sufficient proof that your algebraic operations are...

Congrats but be warned Johns Hopkins program is closer to a master's degree for working professionals rather than an academically oriented one,and though you can take some classes in their regular physics department youd be graduating out of the engineering school. It's also much too expensive...

Regardless of what Vanadium says a high masters gpa will absolutely make up for lower undergrad gpa, but the degree to which that makes the difference in acceptance will vary somewhat wildly. I had a friend who had a subpar undergrad gpa and through the APS bridge program acquired a high...

Same, senior ugrad and grad courses have so far been easier because I'm not struggling with learning concepts I'm just instead learning on how to apply them.

That depends on the professor to be honest, mechanics was harder than my E&M and quantum classes because of the professor (he taught Jackson for 10 years before before being asked to teach undergrad mechanics so he brought that with him, lol).

That depends on how you define 'doing physics'; doing engineering doesn't necessarily preclude one from doing physics.

This is very reasonable expectation provided the OP has graduated already. If the OP is still an undergrad, than yes cutting one's teeth with unpaid work is a good way to eventually earn paid work.

I work in R&D and unless it's in a report I've found higher ups like data simplified to the point where they put it into a spreadsheet, lol. Python, MATLAB, and Excel are all good skills to know and to put on your resume. There's physics programs where the classes are geared towards a more...