Recent content by dydtaylor

I recently graduated with a dual BS/MS degree that my school offers. I am considering going to grad school for a PhD in the future, and I am considering applying sometime this fall after taking the GRE/PGRE and getting recommendation letters set up. My question is that if I am looking to get a...

Yes, this is in Physics. I do mean after the PhD, and I've heard from several people that companies and other employers prefer to stray away from someone who has remained at the same institution for their entire academic career.

The way that my undergraduate career went, I had the opportunity to finish a MS at the same time as my BS within 4 years and now believe I will now have an opportunity to continue my MS to a PhD. I've heard that this typically isn't very good for employment opportunities, but would this be the...

Currently I'm a junior math and physics major from the US expecting to graduate May 2015 with a bs in math and ms in physics after 4 years. I'm spending a semester abroad in Australia this semester and I'm realizing I would like to try spending a few years in Europe, preferably around...

What is a "respectable GPA" to graduate admissions? Hello, incoming sophomore math and physics major here. I'm about to start my third semester of my undergrad, but I have a lot of transfer/AP credit from high school, so a majority of the GPA determining credit on my transcript is going to be...

From what I can tell (speaking from probably about a year more experience than what you have, so there are most likely some details missing), one of the main benefits of diagonalization is it allows you to simplify an operator; instead of having a very messy matrix, you can simplify it greatly...

Well, what exactly is causing your confusion? How a matrix can be diagonalized, what an eigenvector is, how we find them?

This summer I've been self-studying quantum in Griffith's book to help prepare for a graduate quantum course I'm taking next semester. From what I can tell, the first semester of the course will focus on using Shankar's Principles of Quantum Mechanics. Right now I've gone through the first 4...