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I'm a 1st year graduate student, and until yesterday I was absolutely certain I wanted to do theoretical physics. After talking to the 1st year graduate advisor, I am not not so sure. While he didn't say anything I didn't know (3 postdocs minimum, few academic jobs, less industry jobs than...

I actually bought a whiteboard... and it hasn't been used as much as I would like, but when you're stuck on a problem it does help to just write up the part you are stuck on and go about your business while you mull it over.

I think the wikipedia article was getting at that when a car crashes into another car, it doesn't really matter what reference frame you're in, the cars were at the same place at the same time because it is a single event in spacetime. What might have confused you about the New Dehli part of...

I am not sure if this will help you at all, but spacetime diagrams really helped me to conceptualize length contraction. Be patient with my crude diagrams, they should get the concept across even though they aren't pretty (or even totally straight). Because light travels at a set speed in all...

Now, I am not sure if this is the appropriate forum to post this in but I need some help with a particular peakfitting software, and my advisor has never used it before so I can't really ask anyone in our lab. I am currently using seasolve's PeakFit, what I am trying to do is fit a gaussian...

I am studying for my junior level EM final that is a few weeks from now, we are using Griffiths' Introduction to electrodynamics. To prep for the test I am already planning on working through all of our homework problems, and examples in relevant sections, as well as a few problems we didn't do...

Ah alright thanks very much.

Homework Statement The problem is in the solution to a PDE, the coefficient for the Fourier series is of some form like an=\frac{1}{a}\int cos(nx)cos(x) dx over the interval -a to a. Homework Equations Orthogonality relations: \int cos(nx) cos(mx) dx =[ 0, n \neq m, pi n=m \neq 0...

Recently I switched into physics from biochemistry after taking first semester of junior EM. Anyway I am graduating next year and fully plan on continuing physics in graduate school. In short I want to be a physicist and get my PhD. I have vague ideas of what I am interested in but I don't...