Just off the top of my head besides the NSF and NSDEG fellowships you can also look for funding from the military branches (air force, navy, etc.), look for teaching fellowship funding and look for some new federal and state grants that have been given out recently (I know there's some money is...
I don't think double majoring in math and physics is a very big issue for most serious physics students. If you plan to pursue a PhD down the road you'll probably end up taking calc/linear algebra/ode/complex analysis/modern algebra and maybe pde as an undergrad. Unless you have a school where...
You might want to look at these threads on the physics gre forum. They have applicant profiles and admissions results that should be worthwhile for you.
http://www.physicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1847"
http://www.physicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=975"
Admissions to physics grad school is...
I agree its a better bet to work on one research project, especially in this case. In fact, I'll say that it probably is the best way to go in her scenario. However, especially at the universities in new york city, there is a significant amount of collaboration and willingness to work with...
no problem..and the other thing i would float as a suggestion is trying to collaborate on something in the cuny physics dept in your next couple years as an undergrad (besides just your work with the Columbia professor)
cuny should be a phd possibility for you eventually (I know a couple people...
Just a note though--the first edition of ostlie and caroll is probably pretty outdated on certain topics at this point. I used it several years ago and even then there were areas where it wasn't abreast of new developments (this is to be expected considering how much research is continually...
If you can I'd suggest you take an extra year as a post-bac to learn whatever material you may have struggled on and to boost up your grades. I'm vaguely familiar with SEAS and suspect you've probably already amassed a pretty high number of credits. If that's the case it'll be somewhat...
This is pretty good advice for physics and math as well (though 'repetition' in these areas really means doing problems).
What I would do is first do a little research to find out what the best textbook/learning material is for the particular area I want to study. Once you buy that treat it...
my intro course was taught with this (though we used the 1st edition) and I thought it was a fairly good:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805304029/?tag=pfamazon01-20
This is a popular book for an intro to cosmology:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805389121/?tag=pfamazon01-20
I don't think either of...
I'm not exactly sure what level of preparation you already have but there are plenty of free course notes available nowadays on the web. For the introductory stuff in these areas (say Griffiths for QM and an intro relativity course book like Schutz or Stephani) you should already have taken a...
I also just wanted to post a question that a friend of mine asked me about the other day that came up during an MCAT review he was taking (I'm not sure if its the source of original poster's question but its eerily similiar:
Q. If a very bright light source shines on a mirror, the mirror...
Does this mean that the radiation pressure on a solar sail doesn't heat the material at all in a realistic situation?
As an additional question, wouldn't the radiation pressure incident on the sail also be accompanied by heat waves (I know that heat waves are an issue for mirrors on...
I just did a quick search for a question I had and figured I could put it in this thread because I'm guessing its somewhat related. I apologize ahead of time if the answer could have been unearthed with a little more effort on my part looking into my statistics or qm textbooks (this question...