Recent content by FirstYearGrad

Thanks for the replies. Sorry it took me so long to get back to this topic. To Jacques, I'm not a physics major so I don't know what the last 2/3 of what you said means, sorry! To jtbell, yes, those notations would make a lot more sense. To Bill_K, it's not so much that I didn't expect \mu...

I really did use the search function to try and figure this out for myself before posting :redface:, but this has been bugging me for approximately two days. I've been trying to understand the Stern-Gerlach experiment, primarily from hyperphysics (...

E&M stops at Maxwell's equations in EE. It is primarily used as a tool in creating high frequency circuits as well as antennas. You will find that E&M is already well-understood at the quantum level thanks to Feynman, Dirac, and others. If you want to do something new, I strongly suggest...

I've noticed I require less sleep as I work out more. However, you wouldn't be gaining any more study time because you'd be working out instead :).

Not terribly familiar with the field, but is this even a serious research area anymore? It was my impression that nobody has ever even made a good spinFET or, at the very least, they are so hard to make that the majority of papers are theoretical.

I don't think the demand is there for BME relative to the output of BME's. I have this conspiracy theory that the only reason it gets so much attention is that women flock to it unlike other engineering disciplines.

A lot of the professors I know working in the area you talk of in paragraph 1 are not from BME but rather have an electrical engineering background. The electrical engineering part is a lot harder than learning the bio part. Also, I'm not really seeing how potentially showing dolphins being...

Nanotechnology is not a subfield of engineering. Many different roads -- including physics -- will lead you there.

I really like the typefacing in latex. I made a satisfactory one in word but I absolutely hate the way the fonts look.

Hello, This isn't a homework question, but I could not find a better place to put it. I'm writing a document (my resume, actually). I was trying to have in one spot an area left justified that says "2006-2007" that is contained in an invisible box exactly 1 inch wide then have a text box...

Whatever you think american universities are, they're probably not. I think maybe many Europeans have this misconception.

That's a pretty poor attitude. A big part of conferences is actually meeting peers in your academic community as well as seeing what's current beyond merely reading papers. I always come back with boatloads of ideas after going to, say, APS March Meeting. It's also about getting your ideas...

As has been said, it's highly dependent upon the philosophy of the advisor and department. Some are very careful. I actually know one Ph.D student who had his first first author paper published in Nature like 3 or 4 years in. Obviously that is going to be worth a lot more than 5 papers...

Professor salaries at my school are about 50% higher for engineering prof's than physics. However, the engineering program is in the top 10 while the physics program probably doesn't crack the top 25

I don't know if I actually know of a theoretical physics grad student in my university's physics department that is supported by an RA.