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22 is not old. What are your fears? Have you forgotten math and science you learned in your past? In any case, if you are passionate and ready to put in the time required to study (40 hours a week for a full time student) you have nothing to worry about. Is this a good move? Answer this for...

It depends if you need a specific pressure-time curve or not. If you don't care about the pressure-time curve you can just divide by time. If you want a steady (constant slope) increase in pressure you will need to do some more analysis, let me know and we can work on it!

I don't think your analysis method is exhaustive enough. If you have access to modeling software such as SolidWorks you can use the stress analysis software and find where the max stresses will be. Once you know this, you can work on finding a worst case scenario but please, be generous with...

Welcome to Physics Forums! I'm not exactly sure what you're describing. However, since you're working with a gas, you should use the equation of state. If you are using a ideal gas such as air, nitrogen, oxygen, or a noble gas you should use the ideal gas law (PV=nRT). You may have to use one of...

Thank you for your reply jtbell, I can see how electromagnetism and quantum mechanics would be useful for grad school. I am able to self-study many subjects so I doubt that self-studying statistical mechanics and the Lagrangian formulation will be too challenging. Do you think these...

Hello everyone, I'm new to PF and it seems like a great community. I have a few questions about physics education and I'd be very thankful for any responses (really, anything is greatly appreciated!) and insight you all may have. A little background: I am a 4th year mechanical engineering...