Thanks for the advice
That's kind of what I figured about it being late in the year. Actually, I somehow didn't even know that I had enough credits to graduate this summer until just a few weeks ago. Very poor planning on my part...But I never thought I'd get out of this school so fast...
The title of this may be a little confusing.
My delema is this:
I am a physics undergrad with only one more semester left to go. I am also a co-op at a really great little company that designs and produces waveguide optical components, sensors, microfluidics, and spectrometers - really...
Maybe self-study would suffice for some...but personally I would not have learned quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, ODE's, PDE's, or any other college level topic in a mathematically and scientifically rigorous way if I did not have an academic gun to my head! There are lots of things I...
That also depends on what your "real world" is...I think the truth is really too varied to generalize like that. It is true - I have friends that are bored to death of their jobs because they aren't challenged and given minimal work. HOWEVER I also have friends (and I also fall into this...
I think maybe what Choppy was getting at is what if you love your job, but it just happens, merely incidentally, to be well paying.
Like the physicists at the company I work for. They initially came for the research and excitement of helping to build up a small tech company. And now that...
I wouldn't normally "advertize" my School (Kettering University), and please don't take it as that, but we have an excellent physics program here - people who are completely devoted to teaching their students - professors that stay up until 2:30 in the morning every other night preparing a...
That sounds more like the Description of organic chem that I heard from the people around here (intense and time consuming). Organic Chem was not my first choice of class, but it is actually my only choice apart from trying to find a class to take somewhere else. We are a very small school...
I'm almost through the Thermo & Stat Mech class now and doing pretty well (was much easier than Quantum Mech, I think). I take it there is a lot of thermo in Org chem?
Gen Chem 1 was an easy A for me...but that was a long time ago and I probably am a little rusty by now. I guess part of the reason why it worries me is because the students that I talked to about it (chem majors) tell me that the class will bring me to my knees in tears (as it did...
Hello,
I am a physics undergrad...getting ready for my final semester this summer. I have to take a chemistry class (actually, anything above a first General Chemistry class). It just so happens that the ONLY such Chem class they offer (small school) during my final semester is Organic...
My Advisor (a brilliant physicist and University Professor) must of been around 30 when he started his formal physics education, after a career switch from Banking! I just can't picture the guy as a banker...I just can't...
But anyway, that is hopefully some hope for you.
Mercury is not going to be attracted to a magnet. Magnetic colloids (ferro fluids), as taylaron mentioned, are likely your best bet. Since the particles are nanoscale, they probably wouldn't settle or separate too much due to Brownian motion and such. Then again, I've never worked with the...
Thanks! I have not found the ATCC previously in my searches. They will mostly be sorted according to size, although other things like refractive index and buoyancy might also come into play. I'm investigating two systems for sorting - one that uses optical trapping to steer particles...
Exactly!
I originally just wanted to be a well-rounded applied scientist.
But as I got deeper into the physics program, and went through several internships I discovered many interesting and practical areas of condensed matter physics, including biophotonics applications and micro...
I do like your idea of using the real bio's to help verify a simulant that can be used for continued (and less expensive) studies.
I think the latex spheres may work for the "micro-centrifuge" that I'm working on, which is actually the thing that requires the most particles, because it is...