Recent content by hanks721

Thanks se7en and SpiffyKavu! I live in Boston, MA. Right the economy is bad so tuition really matters. But the schools I've already applied are also really expensive ones. I feel sorry to my parents for that reason. All I can do is studying hard, trying to get out as much as I can. Quick...

Okay, maybe I should ask "If you apply two of them, which would those be?" I've already applied 5 schools (UPenn, Cornell, MIT, UChicago, UIUC) but I realized maybe I should apply some "safe" schools. However, most of the schools have March deadlines. I'm going to apply UWashington, Maryland...

Hi, I'm applying undergraduate physics programs, and I want to ask your opinion on where you would go among the schools I'm considering to apply. The program (physics) is obviously my priority concern. Other than that, maybe the area; beautiful town, campus, and so on (I really wanted to apply...

Sorry malawi_glenn. I didn't post the attempt because I don't know how to write equations like everybody else does! But I'll try to explain. The first thing that came up to my mind is, to prove orthonormality I have to show, <psi_m|psi_n>=0 and that is...

Homework Statement Show that the eigenstates of the simple harmonic oscillator using Dirac notations are orthonormal. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution

Hi, this might sound stupid, but I have a question. why does massless bosons, such as photon, gluon have an infinite range where w and z bosons have finite ranges??