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Do you mean thermodynamics, as in the engineering class, or do you mean thermal physics/statistical mechanics, as in the physics class?

Your first course in ODE should be pretty straightforward. I'm in engineering, so the course was basically all problem solving/applications, with little to no existence/uniqueness theorems/proofs required. The entire class was basically "here's an equation, solve it." My intro ODE course...

Depends what subfield of physics. You will learn general theory in each course, but you specialize in a few fields of physics in your later years: mechanical/aerospace: thermo, fluids, mechanics electrical: e&m/electrodynamics, some solid state/condensed matter stuff if you go into electronics...

My school used Stewart's 5th edition Calculus for calc I-III, and we separated it like this. I think this is more or less the standard breakup: calc I, chapters 1-5: - functions - limits and derivatives (defn of limit, limits at infinity, continuity, etc.) - rules for differentiation (product...

Say you have z = f(x,y). Then \int_C f(x,y) ds represents the area of the sheet that is traces out. That is, the line represented by C in the xy plane, connect it to the surface f(x,y), and the line integral represents the area of this sheet

Mostly self taught? I think you're confusing CS with programming/software develoment. There's much more to CS than code monkeying.

Check out the book "The Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams. He makes up words to describe just these situations where the English language doesn't have such a word.

IIRC, not all masters programs require a thesis by the way. I know in most schools here in Ontario, a M.ASc. (master of applied science) requires some coursework + thesis, while a M.Eng. (master of engineering) requires only coursework. I would assume similar distinctions exist in other masters...

A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are at a conference, and are asked to determine the volume of a red ball. The mathematician carefully measures the ball's diamater and calculates the volume from there. The physicist fulls a beaker with water, and submerges the ball and records the...

Will be starting second year of Mechanical Engineering. I am taking vector calc and Diffeq now (summer semester), so during the fall I only have to take: materials I kinem/dyn/mech of rigid bodies deformable bodies I thermodynamics I If I decide to double major in math (which is looking...

First year mechanical engineer here, and I would have to agree with the above posters: my first year was basically all theory: calc i/ii, linalg I, physics, chem, etc. Compare that with the course descriptions of third year: applied thermo II, fluids II, heat transfer, stress analysis, etc...

Not to be argumentative, but is that really a big deal? I'm sure the book could be full of other useless explanations, but that really doesn't seem like the worst of the worst to me.

When I'm rich and famous, I imagine the Wikipedia article that will be written about me. I want it to include something positive about my academics. Seriously though, this is usually an easy question for people that are in the right field for them. Studying physics or math or ee or whatever is...

Change the direction of the slash on your closing tex tag. [\tex] sould be [ /tex] (witout the space obviously)

Also note that there is nothing stopping you from doing coops/internships at Windsor, although you will have to be one of the better students, since there will be less companies recruiting than at Waterloo. I recently made the same decision as you, passed on Waterloo with little to no...