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Problem solving skills is kind of a generic answer, but that's what I'm getting at. What courses have you taken that could have built these? Any chem-e courses? Math?

It's hard for me to imagine that someone who seems reasonably intelligent just by their writing, and someone who aced a calculus 3 course would be asking some of the questions you are. I think you are too wrapped up in societies impression of you compared to other students. It sounds like you...

The courses themselves are not so related, but you will need the same skills. Have you taken any physics courses before?

I think you may want to choose the course best fitted for your major. Are you in engineering or physics? We have these same courses I believe at my uni, and there is a different emphasis. The engineering course is more focused on vector mechanics(Newton), whereas the physics course works it...

Looks like your deltaL is still in feet

After elementary algebra/trigonometry/geometry/pre-calculus I think a good progression is(in order): Calc 1 Calc 2 Calc 3 Differential Equations Linear Algebra Partial differential equations(not required, but I recommend) Set Theory Abstract Algebra Real Analysis ... I think there...

If you will have taken 4 more proof based courses before doing this, then I think you should be fine. These courses are highly professor-dependent(as all courses are). Where I go to school, its generally spoken of that real analysis 1 is the hardest undergraduate math course, and that abstract...

Electrodynamics 1 Real Analysis 2 Numerical Analysis 1 Introduction to QM Very excited! Intro to QM is a course my department offers that is in between the level of QM covered in a typical Modern Physics course and the full on senior QM course. Using it as a refresher before QM in the spring

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think physics grad programs care much about extra math. They just want to know how good at physics you are. Take the physics courses. You want to be a physicist right? Sure math is great and useful, but not as useful as physics courses.

You know I am not entirely sure. I took the undergraduate course and it covered linear transformations, vector spaces, etc. I know that the book we are using is Linear Algebra by Hoffman. I looked at the book and it seems to be more or less the same as the one I used for undergrad linalg, except...

Summer Statistics both sessions Fall E&M 1(excited!) Numerical Analysis 1 Grad Linear Algebra Real analysis 2(may drop, thought 1 wasn't that interesting) Intro to scientific programming(learning how to use Python for solving physics problems)

Modern physics was very cool. I ended up with a C+ in the class unfortunately. Its the only C I have ever gotten in math or physics in college so it was hard to accept. I realize why I got the grade though. I didn't put the effort in and neglected the class compared to other harder classes, so...

Office, Are you saying that you could consider the interval containing 1 infintesimally small so that mk and Mk are zero on it? So this would be summing zero for the interval? I am not sure

The sub-intervals width depends on how large "n" is doesn't it? I don't see what you mean Halls of Ivy.

Dickfore, Thanks for the quick reply! So essentially all comes down to the uncertainty principle? I understand classical scattering and understood the connection you made to an impact parameter.