Recent content by sol66

If your doing engineering, don't bother with physics. Don't do what I did and go into physics for an undergrad only to change your mind about graduate school. Getting a job as a physics undergrad is not possible unless your good at something else. Instead do engineering so you know you will have...

I am at the cross roads of choosing a career. On one hand I could get an electrical engineering masters and do that for a career, however I could also go into the Ph.D. program for chemical physics at my school. I'm a physics undergrad and I've been doing biophysics research for about a year and...

I thought that question was pretty damn easy, I didn't know if there was something that I was missing.

For the question with the plane going north 200 km/hour, did you guys ignore the wind going 30 km/hr west. If you pointed the plane north, all the wind would do is add to your velocity going right, but you velocity going north would be the same... right?

So I have a spring problem where I have two masses and three springs hanging down from a ceiling. Each spring has a different force constant and each mass has a different weight. |.....| |Spring 1...|Spring 3 Mass 1...|...

The program I use recommended that book in the tutorial. You're right, I was a bit disappointed to see that it focused on solid state physics. I'll check out your sources to ... thanks for the advice and help.

At the risk of being caught, I can't say anything about my co-worker. He's a nice guy anyways... just very difficult to understand and doesn't like to explain things.

Well, I'd probably should just use those results.

Hi alxm, well the problem is that I don't have anyone to really guide me ... other than what is out there on the net. The professor I work under doesn't give me anything to read to help, and if I do ask him for help he tells me to go talk to my co-worker. My co-worker is foreign and extremely...

Ya, well ... I actually have gromacs ... but gromacs requires me to parameterize the bond lengths for my chromophore. My group seems to be using MM for simulating the energy level of the chromophore which seems a bit silly to me since it doesn't take into account quantum mechanics of an sort...

Thanks a bunch for the software. It seems like it'll solve my problem. Together with the data I have and the software, it should be pretty easy to solve what I'm looking for. It should be more accurate then just taking general bond lengths found in other chemicals.

So I'm doing research on a particular protein and I need to find bond lengths to parameterize the chromophore. I currently have a bunch of IR Spectroscopic data and I'm thinking I can use the wavelengths of absorptions between bonds to somehow find bond length. I am actually a physicist and so...

So I'm doing research on a particular protein and I need to find bond lengths to parameterize the chromophore. I currently have a bunch of IR Spectroscopic data and I'm thinking I can use the wavelengths of absorptions between bonds to somehow find bond length. I am actually a physicist and so...

Does anyone know where I can find free information on Spontaneous Emission? I can't seem to find even a basic lecture on the Rabi frequency. Please help me out! Thanks

Well, I am a physics student doing research for a theoretical biophysics professor. For the first question of being a theoretical physicist ... you can go down two roads... computational physics or pure theoretical physics. Anything that you try to simulate using a computer or predict without an...