Recent content by QweticoWoods

I agree, which is why I was clear to specify their undergraduate students, not fifth-year PhD students.

The only thing truly separating those in the tip top tiers of undergrad programs are guidance, confidence, and (when its all over) academic pedigree. I'll leave it at that, in an effort to self-moderate and keep the conversation from staying too far off topic.

This is a tad misleading. I wouldn't insult the intelligence of the graduate admissions committees, as they understand that at the undergraduate level, there isn't a huge difference in material between the "tiers". As long as you've got a solid 3.7+ GPA, great recs, 1300+ standard GRE, ~85%+ on...

There is rarely much of a difference in the admissions process, as I've understood it... (but again, no two programs are alike). In fact, in my program, out of the 35 graduate students, I'm one of six Americans.

I was speaking more to the similarities in the overall academic systems, not the formalities of the state department / foreign ministry.

If there's anything consistent about graduate admissions, its that they're completely inconsistent. Just assume they're going to want to look at everything... (they're probably going to ask for your undergrad transcripts, anyway). Ask for positive recs from your undergrad profs AND your grad...

Oye... Nevermind. I found a great example on how to do this on Wikipedia. % illustration of the heat equation % Solve the heat equation using finite differences and Forward Euler function main() % the number of data points. More points means prettier picture. N = 100...

I was tasked with making some animations of simple ODEs and PDEs in MATLAB for use in an undergraduate class. (Vibrating string, Heat Equation, Navier-Stokes)... I wrote some code and plotted some graphs, but I'm not seeing an option to animate along an axis in 2010a. Maybe I'm blind and...

Did you take the sophomore level linear algebra, or a higher level course? Vector calculus (usually calc 3) is not vector analysis... Some real analysis books do a solid breeze-through of green, gauss, and stokes... but not as well as a course focused on them.

Definitely take Linear Algebra. It may seem silly at the time, but if you want a solid understanding of wavelets (GREAT for signal analysis and convolution), the material covered in Linear Algebra will be invaluable.

This all comes down to the physics program at your particular university. Some programs teach most of the math methods you'd need in-house... others do not. I'm a grad student in Math, but the The best advice I feel I can give is that you will absolutely require a solid understanding of...