Recent content by SahinTC

Just a correction: true (black and white) colorblindness is rare, accounting for less than 1% of all colorblind people. The most common is red-green, followed by blue-yellow, then mono color (wherein one can only see one color), true colorblindness, and then progressive colorblindness (where one...

I've worked with 16-bit and 32-bit x86 assembly, and let me just say you deserve to be shot. :)

Well, I have knowledge of C++, but no knowledge of the Win32 API. How big a leap would it be for me to go from that to programming, say, OGL graphics physics rendering?

It'd have to perform realtime simulations in 3D. Something as simple as a collision between two balls with variable coefficients of restitution to torque applied as a block slides off a table.

Perhaps this isn't in the right section, although I couldn't think of a better one. If I wanted to start working on computer simulations, what language and packages should I pursue? I know the blog highlighted Python, but after a point, it has its limits. I was thinking C++ or Java, as I already...

I was fortunate enough to talk to Professor Lewin at MIT about this, here's what he said: Unfortunately, he didn't give me any more information than that, but I can't blame him. He's a very busy man and I'm happy he responded at all. He brings up the same point that's been brought up in...

Let's make it simple and suppose you have a very, very, perfectly sturdy record or something, and a record player that can spin it at enough RPMs to give the edge of the disk a speed that is a significant fraction of the speed of light. Since length shortens along the direction of motion...

*hacks the Gibson* Yet? :)

How does one rack up these "points"? I'm unfamiliar with the system. :)

Well, that would be lying, so I'd be greatly against doing it. ;-)

97-100: A+ 93-96 A 90-92 A- 87-89 B+ 83-86 B 80-82 B- 77-79 C+ 73-76 C 70-72 C- <70 = fail.

Still, top schools tend to be out of my reach financially, which is why I was looking for good-decent schools that cost less.

Indeed, following that thread, it started to not make much sense. ;-). I'm still not too clear on your original statement though... yes, I'm highly biased towards the sciences, but that doesn't help me in figuring out which schools have good physics programs for undergraduates. :). Obvious...

That's the kind of information I was looking for. Thanks! I'll read through that and get back to you. And as for the word... I know the first three syllables mean "phyics," and the last is "bird," but am not quite sure how to put them together. Just started with Korean. :)

I'm aware many of you are finished with or are currently in universities with good physics programs... so for those of you that fit into that category especially, what do you think my chances are of getting into your alma mater or current institution? What institution do you recommend, instead...