Recent content by Rana13

Hello everyone! I am having a bit of an anxiety stricken moment and would really love some advice. I apologize in advance if I type a bit lengthy, as I am quite expressive in real life... I am currently an undergrad student at a local community college in my city. I received my...

Hi everyone. I am a research undergrad student at the University of Washington and I have been given a conceptual problem to figure out for my astrophysics group... My professor would like us to explain to how how one would find the point spread function of a Newtonian telescope. Here's...

Ah thanks a lot =) Well, I guess perhaps I should try and find a book that doesn't cover too much math concepts? I am just trying to get a basic idea of what I am interested in, perhaps college textbooks might not be my answer? I was advised to get them anyway just to have a look...

Hello everyone- I was wondering if anyone could recommend introductory books on particle physics? I'm looking for something an undergrad could read as if they were taking a beginning course. I've searched Amazon and found tons of college textbooks only I'm not sure which ones are...

Ah yes, I thought I was reading that out of context. Thanks for the reply. I agree to keep an open mind. Of course Ill keep what I think Ill enjoy close but there are potentially a lot of aspects of physics, as you said, that I should keep an open mind about. Its hard not to get excited and jump...

Thank you for everyone that put your advice. I am taking all the considerations that everyone said in order to make the most out of my time as an undergrad.I noticed there were a couple people from the UK posting. I just wanted to add I am from the UK (England) as well and was planning on going...

Hello everyone- My question is in regards to Theoretical Physics. Since my last post (which apparently was in Oct 2008...my goodness, I have learned so much since then), I was debating on whether or not I even wanted to go the physics route, but now here I am, a lot of math and two...

Im glad there is light at the end lol I don't know it all sounds great to me I guess ill have to take all your words of advice in mind and find out

Does anyone mind telling me why everyone seems to think going into particle physics is boring? This isn't the first response I've gotten when told I was interested in it. A lot of peope are telling me to stick to Neuroscience and as I said before, I am probablly going to switch back and forth...

Thats exactlly what I wanted, thank you so much for that! I will ask around like you said, that is a very good idea to get more information on it.

Is there any way one might be able to describe in detail what courses someone would take? I guess what I mean is, once you develop skills in a certain maths, then you would go on to...? And do you have to major in physics OR maths to go into particle physics? Or does it not really matter...

Hi there! I am new to the forum. My names Rana, I live in Seattle, and I am currently enrolled at a community college right now where for the last year or so I've been dedicated to going into the field of neuroscience,...but...I had one of those college "mid-life crisis", and now all I...