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Thanks for your input, anyone else have any suggestions?

Furthermore, regarding a topic concerning electromagnetism and relativity, I am aware that the two are not yet unified as a fundamental force but what my understanding was that relativity required some knowledge of E&M if I am not mistaken which is what I wanted to concentrate on, E&M's...

Also for clarification, a more advanced E&M course is generally taken the junior year which does require the vector calc

The thing is I go to Penn State University so engineering and physics majors generally take an E&M course during the third semester; at this point the math that has been completed is organized as: semester 1 - calculus 1, semester 2 - calculus 2, semester 3 - vector calculus. Therefore...

I am going into my fall semester of E&M and am trying to decide upon a topic to write about for an honors project. I have not taken an E&M course yet so it is difficult for me to really find which topics are too advanced scientifically or mathematically at this point. So far I have taken a...

What I mean is that I'd like to put in a sequence of numbers such as (1, -1/3, 1/9, -1/27, 1/81,...) and have it give me a formula like (-1/3)^n-1

Can someone guide me toward using my TI-89 Titanium calculator for sequences? I would like to be able to PUT IN a sequence of numbers and have it GIVE ME the formula. Not vice versa please. Thanks.