Recent content by davidbenari

@f95toli Out of humility and not wanting to undermine people that spent 8 years doing this I won't argue anymore, although I don't agree with what you said haha. I just genuinely want to find a good fit. I haven't given up on physics. I think experiment comes in many different flavors, for...

@f95toli Well I think programming and code maintenance is a lot more intellectually pleasing than doing etching, for example. I get where you're going that you think I am simplifying a field, but I don't think it's a valid critique. There are aspects of experiment that are less intellectually...

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Yes they do keep talking about bands. Consider the system everybody is talking about nowadays: Twisted Bilayer Graphene. This is a material with a flat band structure and the cause of this is electronic correlation. People that do theory consider correlation in the hamiltonian and then get a...

This is going to be controversial and might even be taken down, but I think what I will say is absolutely true, and I'm sorry if it offends people. I'm applying for the second time to condensed matter PhDs. I was in a group that did a lot of device fabrication as part of their experiments and...

I know its in the southeast, but its a good enough school that I will apply nonetheless. It is for political reasons. Personally I've never had problems with racism in the US, but I've never been to the southeast and they tell me its pretty bad. I'll be living 5ish years there and don't want to...

Im looking for colleges lower in rank from the ones i mentioned. I want to aim lower. Do you also have any ideas for this? Thanks.

Depends on how deep you want to go. If you want to know everything about QM an undergraduate in physics knows, then I think you'll be fine for the most part without ever taking analytical mechanics. Also, why do you want to study from Goldstein? That's a graduate textbook and is kind of overkill...

I'm applying to grad school (PhD) in EE. My degree is in engineering physics so I want to work on the parts of EE that would also be called applied physics. So things like quantum electronics, nanotech and electromagnetics. I have already started applying to: UIUC, Cornell, USC, BU, GTECH...

The US. I'm open to other places, but I am a US citizen and plan to go to grad school in the US.

I'm finishing my degree in Engineering Physics (really just physics). Without a doubt my favorite area of physics is solid state physics. While I love computational and theoretical work, I don't think making a career out of it is as easy as it is in the experimental or engineering side of it. So...

I think I see your confusion. You might want to think of it this way: If you are integrating, then a little chunk of x is a better way to think of it. For example, say you have a density function ##\rho(x)##, where ##x## is the coordinate along some rope or something. The mass on a little...

Treat it as a little chunk of x. An infinitesimal one. Or in your words, a small change in x. I hate to say this, but even though a lot of math guys out there try to pretend they're really angry because you're using infinitesimal quantities, you will get pretty far in your math education if...

I've heard of programming "boot camps", you mean those? I actually find financial programming interesting. How did you contact those guys? Did you require graduate studies?

I'm about to finish my degree by the way. These 6 courses come after I've seen all physics and general education courses. I've already added 2 of those courses for next semester, although I can change them. I added Numerical PDEs and Numerical Fluid Dynamics. I was still worried about the...