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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
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when you use a partial derivative, you must specify what its being held constant. The thing that is being held constant is volume... -
Mmarcusl replied to the thread Undergrad An intuitive reason for the definition of temperature via entropy and internal energy?.dS=dE/T. At low temperature, systems are highly ordered and a small energy input results in a relatively large increase in disorder. At...
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Mmarcusl reacted to Dale's post in the thread High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space? with Like.
Those are just artifacts of the SI units. They are not part of nature. They don’t even exist in some other unit systems. Space is...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Engineering Second degree for engineers for more job opportunities?.WWGD, you have addressed many of the post replies at great length, but the OP is long gone. BTW, note that he/she kept talking about...
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MYou flunked two semesters of community college? If I'm reading that right, that's not a good sign of potential success at this time...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Two A/D use cases for Radar.1. Yes, counting ADC clock cycles is equivalent to measuring time. Keep in mind that many pulse waveforms exhibit range-Doppler...
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Mmarcusl reacted to Dale's post in the thread Other Struggling with illness and existential despair with Like.
You need to look for a psychiatrist, not a psychologist. A psychologist treats only with therapy. A psychiatrist treats with medication...
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Mmarcusl reacted to Dale's post in the thread Other Struggling with illness and existential despair with Like.
Maybe you need a psychiatrist instead of a psychologist. Many mental illnesses begin to manifest severe symptoms at around your age...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Other Struggling with illness and existential despair.You’ve been seeing the wrong therapists, then. Keep looking until you find one who works for you.
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Other I would like to get recommendations for graduate level physics books.Most self-study efforts are aborted, no matter how confident the self-student is at the start. You even say in your post that you might...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread How to measure the diameter of a shaft without a caliper?.Harbor Freight has plastic composite digital calipers for $9.99. (They even have plastic manual-reading ones for $1.99!) Plenty accurate...
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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Other I would like to get recommendations for graduate level physics books.Go through your seven review books first. You will then be in a much better position to evaluate what level of graduate text, and what...