Recent content by kanato

1) The light is re-emitted in the same direction. Notice how once the light is in the medium, it travels in a straight line. The bending of the light when entering a medium is a *surface* phenomenon. See the animation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%27s_law#Derivations_and_formulae ...

You can't take an inertial frame of reference where one particle lies at the origin. Since the other particle will exert a force on it, a frame of reference tacked onto one particle will be non-inertial, and then questions like "what is a conservation law" get really confusing. If you use a...

If a C is 70%, then you need a total score of 280 on 4 tests. Less the 61 you already got, that means on the last two tests and the final (assuming each is weighted equally, which they probably aren't) you need a total of 289, or about 97 on each test. That means you need to learn everything...

Yes, the Wyckoff positions are the sets of the sites with independent symmetry. That is, each Wyckoff position is a site with different symmetry than the other Wyckoff positions. The Wyckoff positions are named based on the number of equivalent sites, ie. the 2a position refers to a two sites...

If you're willing to start a 5-8 hour study a day for a year to make up with your poor mathematics skills, then get started on that as soon as possible. Or do as much as you can as soon as possible. Math takes practice to be good at it. Even if you decide eventually that you don't want to be...

No, latent heats at phase transitions are present in entirely classical models of matter.

well the first thing you should start doing is to stop hijacking threads :P

Well if you want advice on that, you should make a post on this forum or the academic guidance forum describing your situation and feelings, and asking for advice that is relevant to you.

No, you should read some of twofish-quant's posts. Quantitative finance is much more like physics than it is like being a loan office or something in a bank. And being a high school teacher? That's much more like being a babysitter than it is like being a physicist.

Have you ever taken business classes? They're boring as hell. And you wouldn't have the skills to do quantitative finance in the end.

Forestman, the Heisenberg Hamiltonian is an effective model for interacting (three-dimensional) spins on a lattice. The Atomic, Solid State, Comp. Physics forum is a forum for people with specific questions about solid state physics and related topics. If you have questions about basic quantum...

Yes, that's about right. Intrinsic semiconductors have very few charge carriers until rather high temperatures.

Yeah, you only need to do the x direction.

Suggesting a university to you isn't going to do you much good. I would suggest calling around to various universities and talking to someone there about your situation. You can see how receptive they are. I suspect you will find different responses at different schools. Not having any...

My wild speculation would be that you're going to have a difficult time finding such a job. Most German scientists speak English pretty well, and most science publications in the last 50 years are in English. You might try checking career pages of journals like Elsevier though to see what you...