Recent content by LyleJr

I found a major mistake on page one, of all places. Corrected version is attached.

I agree. This was just a for fun exercise to pass the time.

Hi all, Sorry if this is the wrong section to post this. For some time, I have wanted to derive the Laplacian in spherical coordinates for myself using what some people call the "brute force" method. I knew it would take several sheets of paper and could quickly become disorganized, so I...

I think it did a decent job at both. The entirety of Chapter 3 was spent formalizing the material within Linear Algebra, but again we only did Chapters 1-4 which was just less than half the book.

Thanks. I'm going to be making some calls and sending e-mails over the next month or so to find out what information I can at the various schools I am interested in.

Hello all, I just wanted to hear what the collected wisdom makes of my particular situation. I am an undergraduate student in the United States who intends on applying for admissions to graduate school this coming year. In 2005 I went to University for the 1st time right out of high school at...

Thanks! I have been doing something similar, at least with QM, by supplementing my reading with lecture videos from MIT. It really does help.

I am a Physics undergrad with 3 semesters left. I just finished my first QM course this past Spring and did very well and enjoyed the class greatly, but I find that information is already starting to slip away from my memory banks, as it were. It's so much to take in and to be honest, we only...

Well, my feeling at this point is that if I do move there to purse a Master's degree, I would try and stay in the country to also get my PhD. Of course, a million possible things could happen that would change that, but as I stated in my first post, the personal finical costs alone of moving...

Thanks, jtbell. So it's the normal practice in the US, but what about in other nations?

Hi, When I finish my undergraduate physics degree here in the USA, I would like to go on to get a PhD abroad, in particular in the United Kingdom. I have noticed that a lot of Universities in the US have programs that allow a BS in physics to go directly into a PhD program, rather than getting...

Hi everyone. Just wanted to introduce myself. I am Lyle, and I live in Little Rock, AR. I went to college way back in 2005 right out of high school to study math, but things didn't go very well for me. All my fault, and long story short, I was brunt out on school. I should have taken some...