Recent content by pierce15

Forgive me for not having read the past 5 pages of debate, but I have a few thoughts. First, we can stop arguing about whether this is a problem of the differential form of Gauss's law. The derivation of the differential form from the integral form uses the divergence theorem which holds in...

Sorry for delay, last few days have been crazy. This company looks cool. I think I would enjoy working in an industry like this but I would be worried about regretting not going into physics after spending so many years studying it... anyone here ever feel that way?

Thanks for the reply. By device design and simulation do you mean analog circuits?

Unrelated but I would disagree with this. I have always felt that reading textbooks and solving problems is a much better use of time than going to class. As for the original question, I do almost all of my reading on computers. I try to read hard copies as much as possible since I think it's...

Thanks for the reply, that's pretty useful information.

Astronuc I'm curious... if you don't mind me asking are you working in private sector? I am wondering the extent to which you can pursue your own research/projects in the nuclear private sector.

This book also looks great but there are no problems at the end of the chapters. The specific reason why I am looking for problems is because I am trying to organize a small reading group and it will be much easier to gauge progress if we all do problem sets.

Hello, I am interested in getting into low-energy experimental nuclear physics. I have studied quantum mechanics and a few introductory nuclear science textbooks (e.g. Shultis + Faw: Introduction to Nuclear Science and Engineering). I found the textbook Theoretical Nuclear Physics by Blatt...

The group I will be working with does selective trapping of radioactive ions to study the electroweak interaction... I don't understand the specific models they are testing, but I will be studying nuclear physics this summer. This most likely involves some simulations. I know they are also...

That sounds awesome. How did you end up getting choosing nuclear?

Funny, I am going to try working in low energy nuclear physics next fall. Do you do simulations primarily of detector physics?

I should mention I worked in an AMO lab this year and really didn't like optics. Condensed matter is an interesting idea... I'll have to look into it more.

I'm an undergrad trying to figure out what career I want to pursue. I consider myself very good at math and physics and enjoy them, however I know that I definitely do not want to go into purely theoretical physics. I have been thinking about what I want to do for a while now and it occurred...

This is what I am trying to figure out. Are you suggesting this is a resonance effect, i.e. the probability increases when the "frequency" of the electron is similar to the frequency of the gamma? I have an idea for how this could be quantified in the case of low-energy gammas, i.e. ones...

This is exactly my question: why should a photon interact more with something that is more confined? Do you have an explanation more rigorous than dimensional analysis as to why this should be the case?