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Muu9 replied to the thread Admissions Graduating a year early anxieties + grad school.Aren't most PhD programs funded? What I think a scholarship does for PhD students is get you out of needing to rely on paid TA positions... -
Muu9 replied to the thread Admissions Graduating a year early anxieties + grad school.When did he self-teach CM, during undergrad? -
Muu9 replied to the thread New Approach To Tackle College Cost.I don't think they offer a BS maths degree: https://newu.university/majors/ -
Muu9 replied to the thread New Approach To Tackle College Cost.I'm not convinced of the value of such a degree. -
Muu9 replied to the thread Advice for Physics Olympiads.Once you've studied a bit (e.g. completed your first pass of a textbook) you can take a practice test here... -
Muu9 replied to the thread Studying Interested in Astronomy as a Freshman.And it's so close to 10^0.5, too. -
Muu9 replied to the thread Studying Interested in Astronomy as a Freshman.See if you can find a used copy of "The Cosmic Perspective" or "Conceptual Physics". Bookfinder.com scrapes a bunch of sites to find the... -
Muu9 replied to the thread Intro Physics What is the best conceptual high school physics book?.If you like Hewitt, why not use it? I think it's about as good as it gets for basic high school physics. For one level up, try "college... -
Muu9 replied to the thread Pre-reqs for Ultrafast Optics? (Jackson or Zangwill for Electrodynamics?).I hear a lot of people recommend Zangwill over Jackson, but not vice versa. That being said, URochester's OPT 462 (an EM course for... -
Muu9 replied to the thread I want to help Physics education. What should I do?.The timing would still be an issue -
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Muu9 replied to the thread I want to help Physics education. What should I do?.Discovery approaches are generally more taxing in terms of cognitive load due the student needing to focus on all aspects of the task... -
Muu9 replied to the thread I want to help Physics education. What should I do?.I disagree - there's been interesting new developments in the field of psychology, namely Cognitive Load Theory, that support direct... -
Muu9 replied to the thread I want to help Physics education. What should I do?.I don't have an issue with chalk and talk - after all, pretty much every YouTube video is limited to that format, and there are some... -
Muu9 replied to the thread I want to help Physics education. What should I do?.Sorry, I don't get it