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That actually sounds like the way to go - also helps avoid an awkward ending if it should come to that.

That makes sense - I think I've got a pretty good feeling about all of this now. Thanks again for the input! I will absolutely take this to heart. That would be a nightmare situation.

That's fair, 90% is certainly an exaggeration but it seems to me as though a lot of departments only have 1 or 2 remaining theorists in a sea of experimentalists with large groups and plenty of funding.

Oh wow I'm extremely glad I posted on here! Thank you so much fresh_42 and Choppy for the advice. If you're still around, I noticed that you guys conflicted on this question: Your advice there sounds good Choppy, especially since that guy got the job but I can't imagine that my upbringing/life...

We used Pathria; I think that it's an extremely thorough text and pretty commonly used. I really enjoyed my stat-mech course with this book. Alternatively, my friend suggests Huang and I did reference his book from time to time while taking stat-mech. I agree that it's extremely bizarre that the...

This is the answer; it is unbelievably difficult to find funding in theory. Try scanning university physics faculty rosters and you will notice a distinct lack of pure theorists in at least 90% of these institutions.

Hello everyone! I'm soon flying out to several research facilities/companies that have invited me to give presentations, meet with staff, check out the towns etc... I have a few questions about what I should be including in the presentations. I understand that I need to include my past research...

That would absolutely be the main challenge - I have been scanning for papers like this; Thank you very much! - I'll let you know what happens; as it stands, the method I'm using now is functional but I would definitely like to add this extra degree of accuracy.

Okay, I'll try my best - I've got an FEA model where I apply a heat load to a beam and simulate the thermal expansion. After that, I apply a couple and bend the beam back in another step of the simulation. Often times I will plot the displacement of the top center line of the beam after heat...

Hi guys; I have an analytical solution for the deformation of a beam due to a couple with moments C_1 and C_2 with boundary conditions y=0 and x=±(L/2) where L≡length of the beam. The derivation from the Bernoulli-Euler equation is below: \begin{align*}...

I'm just leaving the place where I have that data and forgot to put it on the web although I think I figured it out. I just did a rotation and a linear transformation on both sets of coordinates which I got from defining a new origin where the endpoints equal zero. The shape appeared the same...

Okay, right; I don't want them to point in the same direction, it's just that one end is slightly lower than the other so after a linear translation, I should be able to rotate them a bit so that the ends are at y=0 for x=±L/2. I guess the x-coordinates will transform as well in this case. I...

Hmmm... are you saying that I can't rotate this data so that the endpoints respect my boundary conditions while maintaining the same shape? I'll attach a short derivation of the equation for deformation(y) with respect to beam/mirror length(x). I may not have explained it properly.

I did some research and it looks like a 2D conformal transformation might work? I understand the subtraction will work to bring us down to zero but only for one point, they are not both at 6.8. Also, they won't be compatible with zero slope - it's the case that my equation contains variables...

Do you think that this thread might be more appropriate elsewhere?