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I'm curious twofish-quant, you say "research professorship", but how difficult would it be to just teach at a college level at say a LAC, where research in Physics isn't necessarily stressed? Is that equally difficult or perhaps more reasonable a goal?

S=θr where S is the Arc Length. So think of it like r*θ/t

Thanks rootx but I meant reading the value as in the number of characters or something...um? I'm not sure. I was just being silly. Regardless. I realized that I can declare column and row integers in the first part of a for statement then add one to them after each iteration. I was seriously...

Okay. Well I just typed a whole big thing about what I thought was workable pseudocode for this but I quickly realized that when I went through and followed the directions I was giving the computer, I was not getting the pattern. So, yeah, I need to start from scratch and just see how I want the...

I think it would be better if I phrased the question outside of the context of my professor's hints. I guess what I am really confused on is how to quantify the number of stars while still having a single print statement. In order to use a loop I need a condition to be met that uses...

Yes, in hindsight I was a little vague. The pattern we have to make is like this: * ** *** ... continuing to a specific number of stars input by the user. But the professor wants us to use only a single print statement, while creating the rest of the pattern by looping it. But the way he...

I have an assignment where we have to use loops to print quarter diamond patterns. I don't really need help with the actual coding, since the prof basically gave us a pseudo-code as a hint, but in the pseudo-code there is a variable for the number of rows and columns. I have been searching...

I will definitely check this book out, especially since my school has no general mathematics course for Physics majors that I am aware of :P, Thanks.

OH yeah! Sorry, you are right. I forgot to do the row operation on the right side. So the first equation should be: k2-3k+2=0 ? This is only true when k= 1 or 2. So, by what you said (which makes sense), if k equals anything besides this it is inconsistent and so there are no solutions? I...

Yeah I think the analytical skills from math courses can only help. But I guess I was off put because I always liked Physics for the math and I would hate to just stop around calculus when there is so much more out there. I have always leaned towards the theoretical (I am absolute rubbish at...

I am a freshman Physics major and I always thought I would be required to learn a lot of higher level maths. But I picked up a major requirement sheet today and found out I only need to take the 3 level calc sequence, linear algebra, and DiffEQ. Thats it. Now I understand I CAN take more, and...

Homework Statement Its number four on this link: http://www.math.pitt.edu/~dwang/math0280/math0280-r1.pdf" The Attempt at a Solution Well I reduced it to echelon form, and that's not really what I have the question on. But I have three equations now, but I am not sure what values of k would...

hahaha I love that Environmentalist is a full time career.

If there is a constant velocity, yes, there is no acceleration, and yes, no Force. Things resist changes in motion, whether that is starting or stopping. Something moving at a constant velocity will go on forever without another force stopping it. In the real world that doesn't happen because...

My dad, who grew up watching black and white films, claims he can tell the difference between colors in a black and white movie. Whether or not I believe him is a different thing. Also I kind of like the contrast of black and white. I think it makes things crisper than a lot of color movies.