Thank you for the input! In fact my supervisor is not too much concerned about my performance in those courses, but just on the research itself. And for the research that I am going to do, these deficiencies that I have in QFT will not weigh that much.
But it is more of a psychological burden...
Hi all,
I just started in a PhD in a General Relativity related problem. Although the problems that I am going to work with are purely classical (in the sense of no QM required), I feel bad about my lack of proficiency in QFT.
I had to follow a course in some advanced topics (such as String...
the problems/challenges that you have to face daily are mostly related to code issues with the physics itself?
Is there room to improve our knowledge of fundamental physics while working on it?
Do you enjoy doing it? why?
I'm asking this because I'm considering working on numerical relativity...
Hi everybody!
I've just finished my 4th year of physics degree (1st year of the masters degree, to be more exact) and I feel that I've spent most of my time reading theory and studying proofs and very few time on actual problem solving. In order to change that, I decided this summer go through...
This memorization part made me not like maths too much at first. Not because I was struggling with it, but because I didn't find it interesting. Only when we started doing algebra problems about coming up with an equation given some real life situation.
I think the only calculus you could apply is in the derivation of the motion equations (as
BiGyElLoWhAt said). For that you need the "calculus definition" of the concepts of velocity and accelaration, which, since you professor focus too much on theory, I believe you've covered on class (if not...
The gentleman (judging by the hat) must move by a distance d at the exact same moment that he reaches high h2.
So, you have to find the time t required for him to move by a distance h1-h2 horizontally.
Then just plug this time on the equation for horizontal motion of the gentleman. (the...
I'm now a 19 years old undergraduate physics student. I've a reasonable proficiency with calculus (well, no really...) but if you ask me 6*7 (unlike my mother and many other older people I know) I'll take awhile until I come up with an answer (I'll ask myself 6*5 and then add 12 to that result)...
I agree with that. I believe (forgive me if I'm wrong) that maths is all about the numbers and the relations with those numbers (axioms, theorems and all that) which are ultimately mechanisms to produce even more numbers. so let's imagine each integer as fixed points, equally spaced, on an...