Recent content by CoreyJKelly

I appreciate all the posts! I've been somewhat distraught in deciding on an honours project, because I was worried that I might be laying the first stone in a path that I really didn't want to go down.. haha... not that I don't enjoy experiment, but I'm really interested in a lot of the newer...

I've taken 3 or 4 university-level programming courses, two of which were specifically for programming to solve physics problems. I also do a fair bit of programming in the lab that I work in now. Glad to know this will come in handy!

I'm starting GR in the winter... I've got the text now so that I can pre-read and hopefully get ahead on the material... it seems to be reasonably well put together, but I've got little basis for comparison, haha

Staying in Canada is likely, but I'm applying to a few schools in the U.S. as well. I do plan on continuing to a Ph.D., so I'll keep that in mind while sorting out my programme. Thanks so much for the advice!

I'm at Memorial University of Newfoundland. I suppose it is true that the type of courses I had mentioned are usually offered at a graduate level, so it won't be unusual that I haven't taken them. Thanks for the advice! I'm also looking for opinions on what it's like to do a coursework master's...

Hi all, I'm currently a fourth year physics student, working on my honours degree. The school that I'm at has almost no research happening in theoretical physics, but I've always been more interested in theoretical than experimental physics. For my honours project, I'll be working on...

Homework Statement From Taylor's "Classical Mechanics", problem 9.15: On a certain planet, which is perfectly spherically symmetric, the free-fall acceleration has magnitude g = g_0 at the North Pole and g = \lambda g_0 at the equator (with 0 \leq \lambda \leq 1). Find g(\theta), the...

Makes sense.. I actually talked to the prof about the question, and it turns out we had to split r into components, and evaluate all three integrals explicitly.. it was a bit annoying, but I got it sorted out. Thanks for the help!

Homework Statement For \Deltal = 0 the transition rate can be obtained by evaluating the electric dipole matrix elements given by \vec{I} = \int \Psi^{*}_{1,0,0} (e \vec{r}) \Psi_{2,0,0} d\tau Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I've got the two wave functions...

haha, i figured it'd be something simple... thanks!

so I'm trying to derive the De Broglie relation: \lambda = \frac{h}{p} for a relativistic particle.. I know that it can be simply written in terms of the relativistic momentum, but to complicate matters, I'm asked to write it in terms of the Kinetic energy.. the expression I'm looking for...