Recent content by Marco9

Most engineering guys doing the MSc Physics route will be Electrical or Mechanical and even then there will be holes in their physics knowledge. In the UK at least the taught masters will have a few compulsory modules and a bundle of optional ones so you might try to skip around the stuff you...

There will be an upper limit for the jump to be survivable and I would suggest 80+ feet will be getting there. At higher velocities of entry the water molecules have far less time to "get out of the way" so that displacing say 70kg of material (water or otherwise) in a very short space of time...

Hmmm, I was quoting Wukunlin with the first line, and not all of us 'average' physics types wind up in "fast food" work for the rest of our lives either so you need to lighten up a bit with that. Not everyone is capable of getting 90+ % grades from Oxbridge, no matter how hard they try. If...

"If you are not enjoying life when you are working on physics then you probably don't like physics as much as you think" I discovered this during my Physics degree. I was fired up initially to go into the world of physics after graduating but by the time I got to 3rd year I was feeling the same...

Keep it simple I think... The phenomenon that is Magnetism represents itself through the idea of a Magnetic field. This field is generated in permanent magnets like iron by the permanent magnetic dipoles within the material and in other materials by passing an electric current through them...

I found when I did my UK Physics Degree that someone's school experimental background counted for a lot. Some of our guys could get right into the labs straight away as they had done a lot of this in high school, ie they had good physics teachers right from the start. I had to make do with some...

I have a Physics degree from a "brick uni" and a recent Maths degree from the OU so I can compare the material and workload etc. I guess that a lot of people who go for the OU are usually working, have a family and mortgage and just can't afford the time to go to a full-time establishment...

This happened to me when I did my undergraduate degree, also in the UK and I was too slow off the mark when choosing a final year project and got lumped with some Thermodynamics related stuff which I knew nothing about. You can do a few things here: 1. Moan and whine about the injustice of it...

I've done two of these courses and all of the required year 2 maths. EM is fairly straight forward but you'll need vector calculus,volume and surface integrals and partial differential equations from MST209 and it's pretty heavy going. QM was easier but maybe that's due to being a little more...

Mate, You can teach yourself DE's for free by making sure you have the following resources; the entire lecture series for DE's from MIT taught by Prof Mattuck (around 35 hours of lectures on differential equations). Go to youtube and download them all for free. Get the appropriate DE...

What exactly do you want to do as a "Computer Engineer"? Is it the advanced research into chips and fabrication techniques, cos in the UK that would be done by specialist EE boys. Is it Network design and admin or software development? It's such a huge area. What you really need in the UK for...

I have had similar thoughts to yourself regarding a Masters although I reside in the UK rather than abroad. I would love to apply for say, the CASM at Cambridge but as the Masters Degree's are self-funded in the UK then even a native student is looking at £4000(fees) + £6000 (accom and food)...

You have to be careful here when you compare UK PhDs to say US ones. Most PhD degrees in the UK are straight 3 year research projects with a mentor keeping you on the right track and up to speed. There may not be any bridging or catch-up courses in the first year as you're expected to be up to...

This will be different for lots of people. Basically you have to consider your time at Uni as your job and treat it as such. That means at least an 8 hour day, so if your lectures take up 5 hours/day then you owe at least another three in the evening...outrageous huh? During my undergrad...

Part III (CASM) of the Math Tripos at Cambridge is very specific to work that they do at that university. It is required by those looking to do a PhD in Mathematics at Cambridge and mostly Distinctions will be required to gain acceptance. Cambridge U themselves say that it is roughly equivalent...