I've been doing some research on singlet-triplet molecular states, and one things I can't perfectly settle is a rigorous demonstration of why the triplet state is a higher energy than the singlet.
One way I can qualitatively understand why the singlet state has lower energy is this: If the...
Bose-Einstein condensation and the study of ultracold gases and molecules are one of the hottest AMO fields right now (and happens to be what I'm pursuing).
JILA/University of Colorado-Boulder is big in AMO.
At Purdue, we're just getting an ultracold atoms and molecules collaboration...
Hey all,
I'm in the process of pushing for a good graduate student lounge (in a physics department) at my university.
I'm curious, what is your graduate student lounge like? Does one exist? Is it awful, mediocre, or pretty cool? What's in it?
If you wouldn't mind including what...
Older Guy, there's someone (~50?) here at Purdue University who is part-way through doing what you've contemplating. He had a career in international business for many years, and now is coming back to school because he always loved physics, but in his home country growing up it didn't make for a...
Ah, but you forget the fundamental rule of graduate students. Don't pay for what you can get for free. My parents own and run a coffee roasting business.
Hulet's group at Rice (http://atomcool.rice.edu/) looks pretty good.
My two cents: don't think "what school do I want to research at", think "what professor do I want to get my PhD with". If there's a school with 2-4 profs that look like you'd want to work with them, apply there.
It depends on the work I need to do. If I just need to write an essay, do some grading, etc... I'll do the coffee. If I need to be able to think about how to solve a Jackson problem, I'll take a 10 minute nap.
STS816,
I had a similar dilemma between physics and engineering during my undergrad, and was often tempted to switch from physics to engineering. I was, and still am, really into both the amazing science that you study in physics and the fascinating applications you build in engineering.
In...
Homework Statement
Consider a thin ring of mass m that has a radius a and negligible width. The ring lies in a horizontal plan. The ring is an insulator and carries a fixed charge q that is uniformly distributed around its circumference. The ring is located in a magnetic field of strength B_0...
Homework Statement
Given an infinitely long wire, with charge density \lambda, parallel to and a distance d above an infinite, grounded, conducting sheet, what is the potential, V(x,y,z) above the sheet?
What is the induced charge on the sheet?
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a...
I've got the same question, and I'm still stuck after reading your reply Mute. Could you by chance elaborate more (or, if you've got it confuted, could you post what you know)?
Thanks,
Homework Statement
A space station consists of a large cylinder of radius R_0 filled with air. The cylinder spins about its symmetry axis at an angular velocity of \Omega providing a centripetal acceleration of g at the rim of the cylinder (at R_0).
If the temperature is constant inside...