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    Courses Help Needed: Deciding on My 3rd Year Physics Courses

    thanks for the replies! @Jorriss I agree with you. However I can always take EM II next year but astrophysics is offered only every 2-3 years or something like that. @ZombieFeynman Thanks for that perspective, I guess I could just teach myself what I needed. But surely optimization must be...
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    Courses Help Needed: Deciding on My 3rd Year Physics Courses

    bump?
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    Courses Help Needed: Deciding on My 3rd Year Physics Courses

    @rhythm42 Thanks for the reply. Didn't think of it in that perspective! I'll certainly consider that
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    Courses Help Needed: Deciding on My 3rd Year Physics Courses

    Hello! As the title suggests, I am in a dilemma in trying to decide on my courses for next semester in my 3rd year in an undergraduate Physics program. As of right now my 2nd semester looks like this: -Quantum Mechanics -Thermal Physics -Numerical Analysis -3rd year Physics Lab...
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    Is this a good idea? I'm going to self study with Boas before school starts

    Hello PF, I'm going to be heading to my 3rd year as a Physics major and I want to make this last month of summer a tad productive. So my plan was to review/self study math using the mathematical methods book by Boas (and maybe some online resources to get more depth on some particular...