Recent content by poobar

Yeah, it is really long and windy, but thanks for the response. It is encouraging to hear this kind of thing. Having a computer programming background definitely could prove to be helpful after attaining a degree in physics. Are you saying that I should consider being a part-time student for...

TL;DR: I seriously screwed up when I was in my undergrad physics program and ended up essentially dropping out. Several years (and 'careers') later, I ended up becoming a software engineer. I make very good pay, but feel an itch to return to science. I feel an urge to to return to school and...

Summer: BioPhysics Research! Fall: Quantum Mechanics Classical Mechanics Physics Writing Complex Variables I'm thinking of just throwing an easy course into the Spring schedule just to add some credits. I think it's going to be quite a semester.

could anyone suggest a good linear algebra book or give a link to a good online text? this would be really helpful. thanks!

Hey all, I am finishing the second year of the undergraduate physics program at my school. This involves taking a course which teaches us a lot of upper level (or so I am told) math in the span of one semester at a very fast pace. The class is very difficult, but it has sort of given me a...

ok, that makes sense. i guess the part i am confused about is how to go about proving that the definition fits all of the rules. also, for the part about the parallelogram law, do i have to break f(x) into real and imaginary parts in oder to prove that it doesn't hold true for the rule? i...

Homework Statement Consider the vector space C[a,b] of all continuous complex-valued functions f(x), x \in [a,b]. Define a norm ||f|| sup = max{|f(x)|, x \in [a,b]}. (Math Note: technically we want to use sup instead of max but a physicists operational definition of max is the mathematial...

okay. good. that works, so thank you very much. naturally, a new problem has presented itself. i think this one is somewhat more complicated. i have an image.tif that i am trying to open as a matrix in python. i learned about the Image.open(...) but i get an error when i try to do this...

Learning Python --Beginner Question Hey All, I am translating a whole lot of code from MATLAB to Python/NumPy/SciPy. However, I am having a lot of trouble creating column vectors. I know that in MATLAB it would go like this: a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,78], colvec = a' if anyone know the...

It is true that the research opportunities depend on your major, your institution, etc. From my personal experience, just asking professors if they need help in their research work is a great way to find somebody who is willing to involve you. Most people I have talked to (and myself) started...

ok, thanks so much to you all for your responses. I guess, my worry really was that biophysics may turn out to be less "physicsy" than other areas, but I agree with all of your posts. I guess I am just a bit nervous with my first research experience, and don't want to start off on the wrong...

Hi all, I am a current physics undergrad student. I recently got a position on a research team doing several different biophysics research projects. Since I am just an undergrad, I get to start out doing basic low-level work like running image analysis algorithms. I am getting a little...

Hey all, I am a current physics undergrad. Next semester I will be taking a course which covers quantum mechanics. I am really interested in the subject and want to do some reading and learning before I take the course. I am strong in calculus and I just completed a course in differential...

I transferred to my current school midway through my sophomore year and not all of my credits transferred over. I also got last pick for courses since I was a transfer student. I agree with this. It does make more sense to go at the standard pace instead of killing myself to graduate "on...

I am currently a physics undergrad at a state school with a decent physics program (as far as I know). This is my third year as a college student, but I am only in the second year of the physics undergraduate curriculum here. If I continue at the current pace, I will graduate a year late, with...