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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Affordable way to remove potassium from off-grid water?.You should have a sample of your water tested so you know what you’re dealing with. Right now you are just guessing at what an...
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Mmarcusl reacted to CrysPhys's post in the thread Other Difficulty Finding a Position After Physics Bachelors Degree with
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"A terminal bachelors in physics isn't going to explicitly open many more doors that weren't already opened for you." On what do you... -
Mmarcusl replied to the thread Other Difficulty Finding a Position After Physics Bachelors Degree.The administration has instigated a huge ramp-up of weapons procurement (especially since you-know-who apparently shot off most of our...
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Mmarcusl reacted to CrysPhys's post in the thread Other Difficulty Finding a Position After Physics Bachelors Degree with Like.
Well, about 5 yrs after that event, the pharma company my wife worked at had a major downsizing and layoff. By that time I had left...
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Mmarcusl reacted to CrysPhys's post in the thread Other Difficulty Finding a Position After Physics Bachelors Degree with Like.
I'm someone who transitioned to different careers many times. Here are some general tips for you. * It's a tight job market. For...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Other Difficulty Finding a Position After Physics Bachelors Degree.The job market is terrible and AI has wiped out entry level jobs. What hasn’t changed is the need for networking. In a 40+ year career...
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Mmarcusl reacted to ohwilleke's post in the thread High School What ever happened to Classical Unified Field Theory? with
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There are maybe a dozen or two preprints filed in the General Relativity and Cosmology category of arXiv on this subject every year (I... -
Mmarcusl reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Undergrad What is the Difference between Maths and Classical Mechanics? with Like.
I don't understand this type of thinking. It's a bit like asking what's the difference between chemistry and biology? Or, what's the...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak?.I’m a lurker in these interpretation threads—I like the discussions even though I often don’t understand a lot of what’s being...
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Mmarcusl reacted to Klystron's post in the thread High School Why do people not notice the equinox when it happens? with Like.
Suggest not noticing the equinox corresponds with several modern cultural trends. People not engaged in agriculture generally do not...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Undergrad How do bar detectors work in gravitational wave detectors?.The most sensitive Weber bar, designed at Stanford, used a 4800 kg aluminum cooled to 2 to 4K to reduce thermal noise. I forget its...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Unknown apparatus - vacuum tube of some kind?.That tubing is pretty small to pull a meaningful vacuum, so I vote for pressure—but not very high or the fittings would fly off. Maybe...
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Mmarcusl reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Things you wish you knew when you started to study physics? with Like.
Welcome to PF. :smile: One of the most useful tips that I learned early in my study of Physics and Engineering is to carry units along...
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Mmarcusl reacted to Matterwave's post in the thread High School Randomness in quantum mechanics with Like.
Or if you ask vague enough questions without putting in any effort to actually learn the material. "A mechanism for randomness [would...
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Mmarcusl reacted to Chestermiller's post in the thread Undergrad An intuitive reason for the definition of temperature via entropy and internal energy? with Like.
when you use a partial derivative, you must specify what its being held constant. The thing that is being held constant is volume...