Recent content by Narroo

Good morning! So, I graduated in 2013 and got a job in industry. Now, I'm starting grad school in the fall. That's a 2.5 year gap; I'd like to brush up on my skills and shore up my weaknesses. Anyone have recommendations? In particular, for Math Methods and skills? As far as Undergraduate...

3rd version with a completely redone ending. Am I getting closer? Statement of Purpose I’m applying to the Physics program XXX in the hopes of joining either the XXX or XXX Laboratories. The XXX and XXX Labs investigate the electromagnetic properties of solids, which to me is exciting...

Okay, I've got some advice and rewrote it a bit: Here's my newest draft: Statement of Purpose I’m applying to the Physics program XXX to facilitate a career as Experimental Physicist. I have a strong interest in Electrodynamics and Magnetic fields. XXX’s experimental research plays...

Good morning! Can someone help me critique my Statement of Purpose? Here's my first attempt: (On a side note, should I put in that I taught myself C++ in this paper?) Statement of Purpose In short, my purpose is study at XXX to obtain a Ph.D. in Physics to facilitate a career as...

No, I didn't have a bachelor's thesis. There was a class project that didn't go anywhere in the latter half of our senior year, but nothing that I could put on a resume because we didn't accomplish anything. (They basically said: Hey, last year we had come with a concept for a simple Muon...

Hi there! I'm choosing my Grad School Applications now. I'm looking for a balance of reach and safety school- all with programs I'd like. Now, when I find a school I like, how can I tell what my chances of being accepted are? Is there a resource I can use to tell how competitive a program...

T is an independent variable of the system in question. Actually, the equation was dependent on the change in T, ΔT, not T itself, which is why the integral was definite. And thanks for clearing everything up everyone!

Sorry, I miss-read it. That said, there are two things I do not understand: In the following: $$ \lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\sum_{i=1}^n\left(f(x_i)(\Delta x)^2\right) =\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\left(\Delta x\sum_{i=1}^nf(x_i)\Delta x\right) =\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\Delta...

Thanks. But, I'm not really interested in handing waving the odd term away. I'm interested in how I'd actually solve the equation exactly.

Homework Statement This isn't actually homework. I was messing around in my notebook trying something when I ended up writing something to the effect of this: dT = \frac{V^{2}}{R(1+α dT)}dQ R(1+α dT) dT = V^{2}dQ Where α and V are constants. Now, I'm fairly sure what I had done made...

I was thinking a bit earlier: What if you created a particle at infinity (ignore the normal particle rules for simplicity), and allowed it to fall towards a massive body? Ignoring other effects such as the other forces, would the particle ever gain enough energy to surpass the energy...

Why would that be?

I'm preparing for the GRE, and I've encountered a practice problem that I can solve, but not in a manner practical for the test. Homework Statement Two spaceships approach Earth with equal speeds, as measured by an observer on Earth, but from opposite directions. A meterstick on one...

So, if I said that Nuclear Fusion, in concept, always interested me, would that be a good thing? The prospects on Nuclear Fusion aside.

So, I graduated last year and decided to spend the year working before applying to grad school. I'm trying to narrow down what fields I want to look at, so I'm collecting information. To that end, my current question is this: "What fields of physics, as common defined by grad-school program...