Recent content by Razael

Homework Statement I'm trying to find dT/dVm for the van der waals equation. I was looking at http://courses.washington.edu/bhrchem/c456/vdw_jtc.pdf" page, but I'm confused about how they reached their result: The Attempt at a Solution I honestly have no idea what they did. dT/dVm of...

Medicine has been my goal since before high school, but based on how biology is going perhaps I should find an alternative. Thanks!

I find chemistry extremely interesting but biology the epitome of boring. I'd rather do 10 hours of organic chemistry than 5 hours of biology. How would this relate to medical school? Is it more like chemistry (conceptual, stuff fits together like a puzzle) or biology (rote memorization)?

I'm basing it off the fact that 3rd and 4th year classes are harder and thus my university GPA won't be as good as those who took their general studies at the university. I may be mistaken but doesn't a, say, 3.8 university GPA sound better than a 3.9 CC GPA and a ~3.5 university GPA?

I have a feeling this won't look good on a medical school application...

I should note that I'm not expecting to transfer into any prestigious top schools. I'm thinking 3rd and 4th year classes will kill my GPA without general studies padding.

Thanks for the advice guys. I don't want to end up competing in a saturated field after 4 years of work (Gotta save Starbucks for the Liberal Arts majors :smile:)

I'm planning on going down the medical path. Will a Bachelor in each of these prepare me for the MCAT and what I'll see in medical school? Less importantly, how "sellable" are these degrees relative to each other (should the medical path not work out)?

No offense Medphys, but you don't sound like someone I'd want to be around on a daily basis. This is probably why you've yet to find a job.

I actually live pretty close to there Lisab (Portland, Oregon) so that very well could be a future possibility. I prefer arguing from the biological standpoint :-p. So your friends didn't go to graduate school and still got those positions? What's the pay like? What are the hours like? Is it...

Well, biology has been an interest of mine since I was very young, even more so now that it's come into the political spectrum (evolution vs creationism, for example). I enjoy learning (if the topic interests me), and usually get "lost" in my work very quickly (I did 5 hours of homework last...

The title pretty much says it all... would a degree in biology open up many venues compared with, say, a degree in chemical engineering or biochemistry? I'm doing pre-med but would like something to fall back on if that doesn't work out.

Sorry for the late response. It just seemed too "long" for a generic textbook problem; asked the instructor, turns out we were supposed to use a calculator on those ones (other included cos and natural logs inside the summation which I had no idea how to pull out). Used a calculator and the...

Looking back, a T0 of 5 does make a lot more sense. T1, then, would be 5 +5/n, T2 would be 5+10/n, so Ti would be 5+5i/n? 5/n\sum6(5+5i/n)^3-2 I've started simplifying this and it doesn't look right.

Homework Statement Find the area under y = 6x3 - 2 for 5 <_ x <_ 10 Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I'm not sure how it wants us to do it; do we use sigma notation or the general right/left-hand sums? Using sigma notation, delta T = 10-5/n T0= 5/n (?) T1= 10/n Ti = 5i/n...